Lesen am Bildschirm hat sich durchgesetzt. 41% der Befragten drucken auch längere Texte vor dem Lesen nicht mehr aus. Im Jahr 2000 waren das erst 25%. Gestützt werden die Daten zum Lesen am Bildschirm durch die Zustimmungsraten zu folgender Aussage: „Mir ist es ganz egal, ob ein Text gedruckt oder digital ist – es kommt mir auf den Inhalt an.“ 44% aller Befragten stimmten dieser Aussage zu.
The issue is, I’m not sure that I would want to bear my boyfriend’s children. While he is incredibly intelligent and has a great personality, he is markedly less physically attractive than I am.
If we no longer enjoy the uproars and the withering screeds of yesteryear, it’s mainly because people no longer care passionately enough about what they hear in the concert hall to want to murder somebody over it.
— Jan Swafford in his Slate article “When music critics attack” about Slonimsky’s Lexicon of Musical Invective
And this is what I saw. Only pictures from either AP, Reuters, Getty and a little bit of EPA. All wire services, nothing else.[…] It’s plain censorship. Economical censorship, maybe but still censorship.[…]
So all these year end “best pictures of 2008″ should be renamed “best cheap and affordable pictures of the year”, leaving room for someone with a budget, and a conscience, to do one with the real best picture of the years.
The ensuing glut of these [canvas totes] however raises questions about the sustainability of any product regardless of the intention behind it, and the role that design plays in consumption.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action.
On election night, my mother watched Obama’s victory overtaken by emotion. She can still remember the first black person she ever saw on television, when she was a teenager on the black side of the segregated South. On that same election night, my 14-year-old nephew - raised in a world where God can look like Morgan Freeman - grew so bored that he begged to change the channel.
Aude Du Pasquier Grall
Her work “The Male Cycle” creeps me out. Opposed to the clumsy and gimmicky Berlin Photoshop adbusting that’s setting the blogworld abuzz, “The Male Cycle” really gets you thinking about how images of desire and beauty are created. It would do so even without the gender role reversal, which nonetheless works out very well.
