Wasting Time on the Internet (24 page)
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Authors: Kenneth Goldsmith
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The flaneur was always conceptualized as a “he,” since during the nineteenth century, women were not able to walk around the city with the same freedom as men.
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While Facebook has invested heavily in the VR company Oculus, it's far from ready for prime time.
New York Times
reported during the 2016 CES show, “A decade from now, we may well look back on 2016 as the year virtual reality turned the corner from a futuristic novelty into a mainstream possibility.” Farhad Manjoo. “On Display at CES, Tech Ideas in Their Awkward Adolescence.”
New York Times
, January 6, 2016, p. B1.
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JSTOR eventually made these files free for public download.
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This Preview icon came with the Mac Mavericks OS. In the next OS, Yosemite, the child was removed and the magnifying lens was replaced with what looks like a 35 mm camera lens. In terms of narrative and choices, it still makes very little sense. There has been much online speculation about who “preview kid” actually is and why he is there but no one seems to have come up with an answer.
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Only later in his career, when he wanted to generate original footage, Cornell would hire young filmmakers like Larry Jordan or Stan Brakhage as cameramen to shoot it for him.
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In December 2015, Prince was sued by the photographer Donald Graham for copyright infringement for reproducing a black-and-white image of a Rasta smoking a joint that Graham had posted on his Instagram, which Prince included in his
New Portraits
series.
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Young's “never say never” may, in fact, be drawing to a close with streaming lossless FLAC files.
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Although this might be changing with the introduction of the Apple Watch, which as of this writing has yet to catch on in a significant way.
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It seems inevitable that Facebook will increase its five thousand friends limit.
