Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. | | | | Guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan.
(Robert Knight Archive/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
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| | rantnrave:// Many times over the last year I've raved about ALEX GIBNEY's cyber war doc, ZERO DAYS. Many of us thought that digital destruction would never lead to real world destruction. We were 100% wrong. It's happening and there may be no going back. Months ago a vicious troll sent journalist KURT EICHENWALD, who has epilepsy, a tweet with a GIF that caused a seizure. On Friday, the FBI said it had arrested and charged him with criminal cyberstalking with the intent to kill or cause bodily harm. So chilling. Glad Kurt is ok after a long ordeal and proud the FBI understands the severity of this new criminal arena... TRUMP's eye contact and posture when speaking about stuff he knows almost nothing about (a regular occurrence) is a poker shark's dream. I wake up in the morning and turn on CNN, rub my eyes and the lower third still says stuff that used to be the exclusive domain of comedies or thrillers. Apologies to the world for thrusting him upon you due to greed, lies, bigotry, actual frustration, desperation, and god knows what else. We all have to suffer because 60 years ago someone didn't pick him for kickball or his parents whiffed it. We'll do the right thing at some point but likely not before he destroys the EPA and the NEA. Kills after school programs. Healthcare too. Threatens the 4th ESTATE. Profiles and hassles people based on race and religion. Gives the world to CHINA. And s***cans our role as leader (moral and otherwise) of the free world. MARK CUBAN calls him the ZOOLANDER President. I call him the Mean President. As WINSTON CHURCHILL once said: "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else"... When NIKE swoops in on the active apparel market for Muslim women, there will be opinions. Some see the Pro-Hijab as a meaningful move toward inclusivity. Others see problematic connections to Nike's supply chain and its drive for profits. REDEF FashionSET: "PRO/CON: Nike's Pro-Hijab"... Most online publishing sites don't understand the value of re-runs. Not just archives, but promoting older content. From a week ago to years ago. These sites feed the stream monster but users miss a lot of great stuff as it gets pushed down and vanishes into search results. And have you noticed how the quality of search on independent sites has deteriorated over the past decade? Sometimes direct matches only work!... My friend DANIEL EK is very proud of his wife SOFIA's first book, MINEFIELD GIRL, "about her experiences being a young western woman living and doing business in a dictatorship. It's a story on how she got to know the Khadaffis, it's a story of love and hustle in a land where nothing is what it appears to be"... Happy Birthday to DAVID SPINGARN, TOM RYAN, TIM MCHALE, DANIELLE ZALAZNICK and EVAN LOWENSTEIN . | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| A well-funded network is trying to strip the right to speak away from American Muslims and fanning the politics of fear. | | |
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| It’s time for a radical solution. | | |
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| Hollywood's filled with talented storytellers, including executives when they craft creative arguments to portray movie-making as a vibrant business with ample growth opportunities. So it's no wonder that many of them grind their teeth this time each year when Cowen and Co. | | |
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| Big Data has transformed everything from sports to politics to education. It could transform mental-health treatment, too--if only psychologists would stop ignoring it. | | |
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| It’s easy to postpone thinking about diversity while building your company-until that company implodes. | | |
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| With the sequel -- finally -- upon us, the director and star plus author Irvine Welsh, producer Andrew Macdonald and more look back on the 1996 Cool Britannia flagbearer and how it all happened. | | |
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| A commander with a history of depression created a unique way to keep his soldiers from killing themselves. The Army had other ideas. | | |
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| The first report from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1966 was a passionate defense of the government’s role in the arts. | | |
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| What happens when a mall falls into ruin? Filmmaker Dan Bell guides us through abandoned monoliths of merchandise, providing a surprisingly funny and lyrical commentary on consumerism, youth culture and the inspiration we can find in decay. | | |
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| HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer to discuss technology's impact of viewing habits, the Clippers' need for a championship, the potential of a new Clippers arena, the Seattle expansion for the NBA, the NBA boardroom, understanding the salary cap, the future of this Clippers core, and the Microsoft scouting report. | | |
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| The ‘O.C.’ actress has been a target for years, with gossip rags criticizing everything from her weight to her partying habits-and now, alleged ‘revenge porn.’ This needs to stop. | | |
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| Inside the growing chasm between football’s haves and have-nots | | |
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| Josh Haner flew his first drone around his living room. Since then, he has shot award-winning video and stills in China and elsewhere, showing not just new vistas, but also new ways of storytelling. | | |
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| Students rather than deans are calling for less speech and expression. That should worry us all. | | |
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| President Donald Trump and European far-right parties backed by Russia are following the same playbook to advance Russia’s interests. | | |
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| Depending on where you grew up - Europe, United States or Asia - there is a strong debate as to who the crocodile logo belongs to. We explore the history. | | |
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| ‘Creation myths need a devil.’ | | |
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| The way they construct stories makes it likely that readers will believe things that aren’t true. | | |
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| With "Beauty and the Beast," Disney’s live-action machine homes in on the studio’s ’90s Golden Age -- but mining the vault isn’t without its challenges. | | |
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