January 2010
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Selected Correspondence From My Sister's Workday
From: David Brooks Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:30 AM To: Elizabeth Summers Subject: Re: topics - early!! Meow.
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From: Elizabeth Summers To: David Brooks Subject: RE: topics - early!! Sent: Jan 29, 2010 10:20 AM Man up, Brooks.
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Insanely Good
newsweek:
Summers on the iPad:
Fanboys understand that Apple is in the details. Apple is the way your music fades out when your iPhone gets a call; Apple is the combination scroll wheel and volume dial on the original iPod. Apple sells devices that, in Jobs’s famous formulation, “just work.” On stage in San Francisco, parts of the device that Jobs unveiled looked unpolished. Yes, the...
The Lives of U.S. Colored Troops →
New project from my dad, a sort of offshoot of the book he wrote about the slaves of Dr. Samuel Mudd.
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The Case for 3-D
newsweek:
Though we’re not totally convinced that people are going to want to pay $2,000 to sit around their living rooms in goggles that make them look ridiculous, Summers makes a good argument for why 3-D TV is the future:
Why does anyone born after 1980 still pay for cable? That brings me to ESPN 3-D. For me, the only reason is sports. Mad Men, 30 Rock—if I canceled, I could still get these...