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The Lives They Lived: Making Us Laugh
Consider the machine that a television engineer named Charles Douglass, invented in the 1950's. It was called the Laff Box.
Rob Walker|Essays
The Guts of a New Machine
The iPod, a digital music player, it weighing just 6.5 ounces and holding about 1,000 songs.
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Digital Tools for Making Brilliant Mistakes
The many options for digitally antiquing your 21st-century self-expression.
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The Lives They Lived: Let There Be Lite
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The Way We Live Now: Me, My Brand And I
About a year and a half ago, a colleague of mine whom I'll call Steve Theory walked into my office, shut the door behind him and asked my advice about some recent job offers. Without a hint of sarcasm, he explained, ''I just want to do …
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The Way We Live Now: Fauxhemian Rhapsody
Pastis, the Parisian-style bistro that recently opened in New York's meatpacking district, is a restaurant with an idea. The menu is unpretentious, ''simple,'' the owner has explained, and ''there will be no reservations.''
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