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close shareTools WASHINGTON — President Obama claimed credit on Tuesday for an improving economy and defiantly told his Republican adversaries in Congress to “turn the page” by supporting an expensive domestic agenda aimed at improving the fortunes of the middle class. Released from the political constraints of a sagging economy, overseas wars and elections, Mr….
Michael Connor | Wed Jan 21st, 2015 1:06 p.m. This is Rhizome Today for Wednesday, January 20, 2015. This post will be deleted on January 21. Rafaël Rozendaal, tinycursor.com (2008). Screenshot from Chrome browser on Android device. It’s well known by this point that, while mobile use rises, the web browser’s popularity is declining. Forbes reported last…
Rich User Experience, UX and Desktopization of War “If we only look through the interface we cannot appreciate the ways in which it shapes our experience” — Bolter, Gromala: Windows and Mirrors Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied: “Rich User Experience” from the series With Elements of Web 2.0, 2006 This essay is based on my…
Goodnight Moot: 4chan founder steps down after 11 years 4chan founder Christopher Poole (center), also known online as Moot, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from the controversial online community. By Seth Fiegerman2015-01-21 17:04:28 UTC Goodnight Moot. Christopher Poole, founder of the controversial anonymous online community 4chan, announced Wednesday that he is stepping down…
The Batman prequel show returns with an episode set inside the notorious mental institution, but fails to tap into its Lovecraftian origins. Fox After a long holiday break, I’d hoped Gotham would return to our screens with renewed confidence, ready to embrace its strongest, most lurid elements and dispose of the more pedestrian crime drama…
Gail Simone’s twitter feed is wonderful. She is always tweeting fun and interesting stuff about writing, fandom and trolling Kieron Gillen. Yesterday were no different. Because she told a very lovely and personal story about herself, Joss Whedon and Wonder Woman. So here is the slightly bittersweet story of how I met @josswhedon. — GAIL…
Three-year-old Saria Amaya waits with her mother after receiving shoes and school supplies during a charity event in October to help more than 4,000 underprivileged children at the Fred Jordan Mission in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. Children from low-income families now make up a majority of public school students in the nation,…
The show is out of Arkham Asylum and back to its inert mob war, still desperately in need of a change in pace. Fox After a two-week jaunt in Arkham Asylum, Gotham is right back to where it started: Jim Gordon is a Gotham PD detective, Carmine Falcone is engaged in an internal mob war…
For French Jews, the choice between France and Israel is no choice at all. Bullet holes scar the storefront of the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris. (Charles Platiau/Reuters) Journalists and Jews: The victims of the atrocity in Paris are a shattering reminder of an old historical conjunction. The link between Charlie Hebdo and Hyper…
Millions of people are more than willing to pay for steady access to streaming content. Netflix counts 50 million subscribers to its online video library, and Spotify has 12.5 million listeners ponying up a monthly fee for a massive buffet of music. For magazines, however, the idea of paying a flat fee for unlimited access hasn’t caught on. The idea of banding together into…