by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 29, 2010 | Asides
“The archives are a window into his mind” | via Cultural Compass Have just this morning had the opportunity to begin reading some of the side links from the Ransom Center on the DFW archives and how they came to receive them. Following, is nearly 100% of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 28, 2010 | Asides
A window into David Foster Wallace’s mind | via Bobulate, via @craigmod This, from a link inside the Bobulate piece. Images of DFW’s margin annotations inside books he owned. The archive contains manuscript materials for Wallace’s books, stories and...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 28, 2010 | Asides
Pricing Surveys Are Worthless | via Daring Fireball The people responding to these surveys aren’t stupid — they want to pay less money. It’s the people conducting and publishing these surveys, pretending they mean anything, who are stupid. The only “pricing...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 27, 2010 | Asides
After looking at the video in that previous link and I’m wondering how the frak Dan Lyons has a technology column in Newsweek and I don’t? Makes no sense to me at all. The guy is bordering on a 65 IQ.
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 27, 2010 | Asides
Newsweek hates, then loves, the iPad | via Fortune Brainstorm Tech DeWitt takes note of Dan Lyons’ iPad change of tune, then says: Lyons is better known in tech circles—and probably better read—as the formerly-anonymous author of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs....
