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Pilot season
Growing up, I enjoyed writing code and messing around with technology, but my first love was always pop culture — books, film, tv, movies. So I always thought tech would be a hobby, while my career...
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How machines can help us discover overlooked films
Feeling like I’d burned through my standard sources for movie recommendations, I recently decided to turn to box office failures. I was seeking out an automated way to explore the world of such movies...
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“Once you spend more than $100M on a movie…
“Once you spend more than $100 million on a movie, you have to save the world,” explains Lindelof. “And when you start there, and basically say, I have to construct a MacGuffin based on if they shut...
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“That’s what the money is for!”
One of the most interesting parts of Zachary Seward’s profile of AMC’s recent business success is that you can exactly quantify how much AMC’s run of original content — Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The...
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The Music App of Things with XBee and Arduino
With the development of low-cost / low-power / Internet-enabled sensors that can live inside physical objects, there’s an interesting opportunity to rethink what a “button” might look like. As a...
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Why your lousy fantasy football season isn’t your fault
“Just win, baby.” – Al Davis, Owner & GM, Oakland Raiders Maybe for you, the realization that your fantasy football season was circling the drain came slowly. A few bad breaks. A concussion that...
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“Music was better back then”: When do we stop keeping up with popular music?
After sixty years of research, it’s conventional wisdom: as people get older, they stop keeping up with popular music. Whether the demands of parenthood and careers mean devoting less time to pop...
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