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Even if this proves to be an April Fools Prank, this is one of the best - and most heartwarming - stories you'll read today. It concerns a guy who had his iPhone stolen from a cafe in New York, then starts receiving images taken from the phone and uploaded to the iCloud, from which he gathers his phone has made it's way to China. From here he goes on to use social media to track down his phone, and in the end flies to China where he's become something of a minor celebrity, to have the new owner of the stolen phone fete him, promote products, meet fans (!!??) and basically have the time of his life. Well worth the 10 minutes it'll take you to read it, and if you ever have your phone stolen, hold your breath and hope - it might not be as bad a thing as you think...
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An excellent article at the NY Times that combines good writing, detective work, music and video to tell the story of how John Jeremiah Sullivan tracked down the identity of a couple of otherwise unknown blues artists - Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley.
Read the story here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/13/magazine/blues.html?_r=0
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A well written article on the ethics of pawnbrokers. Having had to frequent these places in my financially chequered past, I can assure you the picture he paints is probably on the kind side...noteworthy how he started off in Calgary, and ended up becoming a professor of philosophy...
Link: http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold
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Now this is sexy. Note that it may require you to login and verify your age:
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Pretty girls. Books. And...how could you go wrong?
This is why I like girls than can read.
Find the rest of the set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQuT-Xfyk3o - 10 Girls/Women, 10 Readings.
Part of the Bibliothecaphilia exhibition at Mass MoCA. If you're in Massachusetts it would be the thing to check out.
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An interesting map of the US, based on what residents of each state are most likely to be searching for. In Alaska it's milk, in Tennessee it's a DNA test, in Florida it's an abortion...
View an embiggened version of the map and article here: http://www.fixr.com/blog/2015/02/27/cost-obsessions-us-map/