lcd display article had some interesting parts but was stylistically so annoying. could have fit way more cool facts about lcd display production in there if the author had taken out all the pointless quirky "funny" background stuff. i'm pretty sure they described every single meal they ate while in korea researching the article.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, July 1, 2013 9:18 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i JUST NOW saw that this was written by nicholson baker!?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 8 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
why is nicholson baker writing an article about lcd displays?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 8 July 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
he's obsessed with printed newspapers, libraries, etc.
what day of the week in the nyer on newsstands?
― caek, Monday, 8 July 2013 18:30 (ten years ago) link
by tuesday usually
― max, Monday, 8 July 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
thanking you
― caek, Monday, 8 July 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
writing about lcd displays seems like an inevitable thing for nicholson baker to do
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
He wrote an earlier NYer piece about reading e-books on an iPhone vs. an e-ink reader.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
dudes i know what he writes about, but the lcd article was literally about how lcd screens are made - it was a tech article, not a "how does tech affect reading" article. and it wasn't very good.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:32 (ten years ago) link
it was about how lcd screens are made and about how asia is funny because it's different from america
http://blog.ted.com/2013/06/26/bob-mankoff-picks-his-11-favorite-new-yorker-cartoons-ever/
― k3vin k., Friday, 12 July 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
there are some great ones there but the mozart one is pretty awful
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 12 July 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
the explanation of the french army knife one is very ted.
― caek, Friday, 12 July 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
britisher egg collector one is amazing
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
liked the franklin piece as much as everybody else; v lovely. also liked the tibet/immolation piece?
i had a daytrip involving copious waiting room time, waiting for a visa appointment, & stuffed a bunch of old issues into my bag to catch up; reading the joseph mitchell piece, which is great; liked the zadie smith on joni mitchell piece fine?, which iirc annoyed people, here - i can sorta see why because that kind of peripatetic, loftily quoting thing is destined to be on some level insubstantial, but i kinda liked its concerns. & read the purell piece. also good.
― szarkasm (schlump), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think Baker was well-suited for this piece. He's great at writing about his own (i.e., user-centered) interactions with technology -- he also had a good one about video games a couple years ago, IIRC -- but this wasn't that.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
Gladwell generator
― Brakhage, Thursday, 18 July 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
lol at "Monster Cocks: The Last Book You'd Ever Think I'd Write"
― how bad could it be to be stuck to the couch, forever... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 18 July 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
The piece on domestic violence prevention was hair-raising.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 July 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah
loved the beach erosion article (my alley) and lol at the karan family being called out in a national magazine for suing because beach replenishment prevented them from seeing the ocean from their ground floor
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 July 2013 01:08 (ten years ago) link
i mean the jersey shore and all of us are horribly horribly doomed, but fuck those ppl viciously as they retreat to their other half-dozen houses
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 July 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
British egg collector one was so awesome, but i kept wishing it was 3 times as long and done by David Grann
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 1 August 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
For fans of "Super Sad True Love Story," Shteyngart's Google Glass piece was like a meta-prequel.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
The Steubenville thing, holy shit. I had mostly skipped out on that whole story, gah.
― quincie, Thursday, 1 August 2013 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Hmm, I wonder how I would have felt about it had I known nothing about the case? Because I (very casually) knew what had gone down, which made the piece that much more powerful.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 August 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
really liked the shteyngart thing. there are a couple of real beautiful lines, & the moments he accentuated really do seem futuristic enough to be jarring (cf the in-person hangout).
wish the lanchester thing was more george packery. it's kinda too mild to really impart anything powerful about thatcher.
stubenville thing, domestic violence thing, tyler clementi thing - this is such a strong vein for the NYer, i think. they do it p much faultlessly.
― szarkasm (schlump), Thursday, 1 August 2013 22:56 (ten years ago) link
<3 ariel levy
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 August 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
too bad there isn't an easy way to just pull up freely available feature articles
― markers, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:05 (ten years ago) link
like an index of them or an easy way to search through them or something like that
― markers, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
filtering out all shorter shit and shit you need a sub to access
read last weeks(?) thing abt recreating near-dead french cuisines -- some fast food chain should make that puff pastry salmon 1, wld eat
― johnny crunch, Friday, 2 August 2013 23:11 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that did sound really good. Coulibiac!
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 2 August 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
civil forfeiture article in the new one is a must-read, deserves a pulitzer or to be the inspiration for a nationwide armed insurrection or something
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 5 August 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
like i'm getting angry again just thinking about it
sort of reminds me of the TAL piece I listened to last night about prisons -- a fucked up detail I didn't know, among many I already did, is that offenders can't even move back into public housing WITH THEIR FAMILIES who already live there.
― HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2), Monday, 5 August 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
i'm actually familiar enough with civil forfeiture issues that it really hit home. a sibling of mine is currently in federal prison on a drug charge; although my parents live in a state where civil property seizure is rarely practiced to this extent, they were at least aware enough of the risk of losing their house to get their own lawyer involved, since said sibling had lived at home for a while as an adult
regardless it's fucking crazy that they had to do that in the first place - to say nothing of the people whose only error was driving in the left lane through some shitbag town
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Monday, 5 August 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
The piece on the fashion photog who rents out his apartment to dozens of people at once was awesome. That could be a movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 August 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
the Thatcher book review got me to check the bio out of the library
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link
steubenville date-rape twitter piece is a must-read
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
Yes, it's brilliant.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 5 August 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Very uplifting. :\
― May I Call You Jiggleee? (Leee), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
group deduction culture
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
its the best thing ive read in a while for sure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
online for all now http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/05/130805fa_fact_levy?currentPage=all
yea it's an amazing piece
― marcos, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
just read it this morning. wow.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
A novelist couldn't have come up with Goddard's line about jackrabbits and her new boyfriend.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
she is a truly frightening person
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
yeah the little throwaway comments gave me a def nancy grace famehound vibe
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:52 (ten years ago) link
cant shake "gravy legs" from bouncing around inside my head
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
ha otm
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 August 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link