The fourth installment of The New York Times Home Economics series: Sweet Home Omaha - New York Times, by Richard Dooling.
“HOUSING prices are falling on both coasts, and bubble panic is around the corner. The financial magazines are already grabbing their readers by the throat and taunting them with headlines like: “U.S. Housing Crash Continues!” […]
Shaving technology | The cutting edge | Economist.com
For the most cynical shavers, this evolution is mere marketing. Twin blades seemed plausible. Three were a bit unlikely. Four, ridiculous. And five seems beyond the pale. Few people, though, seem willing to bet that Gillette’s five-bladed Fusion is the end of the road for razor-blade escalation [ […]
Hal R. Varian, writing for the New York Times Economic Scene:
“I believe that there will be a flowering of creative, inexpensive and compelling semiprofessional content available via the Internet. This content will occupy more and more of people’s attention, particularly young people.”
“What gets squeezed is the middle. Those actors, writers and directors who do not […]
Steven Johnson, author of “Everything Bad Is Good For You,” visits Will Wright (creator of Sim City) and writes about Wright’s new game, Spore, and computer gaming as an art form.
“Most eras have distinct “ways of seeing” that end up defining the period in retrospect: the fixed perspective of Renaissance art, the scattered collages of […]
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