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The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

Ringmaster to the Rainbow

There was a time -- between the flickery black-and-white films of yore and the hi-def color-corrected movies we watch today -- when color was in flux. Filmmakers and designers didn't yet know how to…
PUBLISHED: July 27, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3027 words)

The Little-Known History of How the Modern Olympics Got Their Start

More from Smithsonian.com The Men Behind the First Olympic Team What is known as Wenlock Edge, a great palisade, almost 1,000 feet high, running for 15 miles through the county of Shropshire,…
LENGTH: 50 minutes (12585 words)

How Pixar’s Toy Story 2 was deleted twice, once by technology and again for its own good

“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.” “[Larry Cutler] was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. He…
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4363 words)

The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen

Photo: Nigel Parry He’s not a household name like Gates, Jobs, or Zuckerberg. His face isn’t known to millions. But during his remarkable 20-year career, no one has done more than Marc…
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4989 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting…
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1708 words)

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