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First point: Just to clarify, you're calling Bacon a talentless hack? Bacon, the master of nightmarish imagery? Second point: Define meaningful . Philosophy, science, photography, …

It's unnecessary. I personally think that between an iPod touch and a Macbook, there's no issue with the currently-existing portable market. I use an iPod to read and write and bro…

Fair enough. Certainly for me, a tilted bowl of fruit that defies logic is more interesting than a boring bowl of fruit. It still doesn't fascinate me incredibly , but it at least …

So people who do good work are never interesting? Or people with fascinating ideas never learn to polish them? I'm confused.

Wired is writing a kneejerk review. I don't trust their criticisms just as I don't trust their compliments. They simply haven't had the JooJoo for long enough. If you're only posti…

It certainly shows that he's got a good sense of perspective re: drawing bodies. And that's the suggestion Paul's making, right?, that Cezanne makes stupid goofy mistakes. The sket…

Wait, what does the Kindle have to do with anything? I remember journalists loving the Kindle when it came out. There was a slight backlash months after the original sold out, but …

Chill out, bro. You're reading way into this. As for this tablet thing. Every person whose sources I trust have said the Apple tablet will be announced in early 2010. They've been …

I won't downvote you, but you're accusing a bunch of people of upvoting that comment just because it was already upvoted, then insulting those people, then sneering at them and cal…

Yeah, Paul is talking up his ass. Afraid I don't know enough about programmers or painters to spout names, but in any other artistic medium you've got a mix of all types. I'll use …

The emphasized part is a quote. It just happens to be a long blocky quote, so it looks merely like a bold post.

You need to understand that this is entirely a subjective opinion. There are forms of art where accuracy is prized, but in any kind of modern art, any rule can be broken if the res…

I was. James Joyce not being a writer till 32? The man wrote the "best" novel of all time. Sylvester Stallone wrote Rocky in three days? Hot damn, perhaps my own situation isn't so…

Oh man. That actually looks pretty neat. I've got some anal dislikes, but they've removed almost all of the things that were red flags for me. I'm just hoping they nativized the Ma…

If Bezos wanted to fuck around with his apology, he'd have used more cushiony words. "Stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles" doesn't allow for much lee…

Just to be certain, have all of you read Lockhart's Lament? Because it argues the case for teaching math more beautifully than I can. http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

*its, not it's. :-) Windows 7 isn't mindblowing. I actually dislike a lot about it. Microsoft doesn't have a clue regarding their design. That said, when you plug in a mouse it wor…

Hardware in terms of ram, graphics card, hard disk: Not in a distinguishable way. Hardware in terms of firm design, usability, compactness, and aesthetic: I can't think of anything…

There's a chance Ubuntu is better than the years-old operating system. I've had Ubuntu driver issues with all three of my attempted installs, but if I hadn't had those issues I mig…

Apple's market cap is around Google's, according to Newsweek. They make a pretty awesome profit on every product they sell.

I'll confirm product quality. It's just that right when the economy exploded there were a lot of people who were pretty snarky towards Apple, sneering at a company that dared make …

I can confirm this. In high school I hated math, planned on getting an English major, because the English teachers were so good. Previously, in middle school I hated critical analy…

I'm astounded at how recession-proof Apple has made itself seem. I was hoping they'd survive without too many bruises, but it seems as if the recession is boosting their sales, if …