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From the NY Times: In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad and How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work. Also, this slightly overwrought though none-the-less thought provoking excerpt from The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs on This American Life: The more I learn about the culture at Apple, the more I cringe (despite being a hopeless fanboy...).
 A short anecdote:
"We know the couch, but how many of us know the chair? Not the simple analysis chair beside the couch, but the study armchair, the work chair. There were many scenes in A Dangerous Method set in Freud's famous artifact-crammed study, and although we glimpse the iconic couch, there are no scenes that take place on it. But the chair!"  A doc playing at Sundance:
"The conspiracy theories of ardent fans who are convinced they have decoded The Shining’s secret messages regarding genocide, government conspiracy, and the nightmare that we call history." Yes, please. Interesting concept by Bartholomaus Traubeck: The classic Canadian experimental short by Arthur Lipsett: It inspired Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove trailer (which Lipsett declined to direct): |
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