[MyAppleMenu] Jul 7, 2013

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*** Sugar Coma ***
<http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/07/candy_crush_saga_the_most_addictive_game_since_angry_birds.html>
June Thomas, Slate


> <i>Candy Crush</i> teaches me nothing and steals my time and money. I can’t stop playing it.




*** Top 10 Projects, Features, And Tips Every Mac User Should Try ***
<http://www.lifehacker.co.in/technology/Top-10-Projects-Features-and-Tips-Every-Mac-User-Should-Try/articleshow/20946478.cms>
Adam Dachis, Lifehacker



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*** The Age Of Revolution: 1989-2013, And Counting ***
<http://www.salon.com/2013/07/06/the_age_of_revolution_1989_2013_and_counting/>
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon


> From the Berlin Wall to Cairo, we live in an era of anti-authoritarian revolution that may transform the world.




*** Hikikomori: Why Are So Many Japanese Men Refusing To Leave Their Rooms? ***
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23182523>
William Krmer and Claudia Hammond, BBC


> As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes - sometimes for decades at a time. Why?




*** Book Review: ‘The Pink Hotel,’ By Anna Stothard ***
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-review-the-pink-hotel-by-anna-stothard/2013/07/02/ee839912-cc77-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html>
Heller McAlpin, Washington Post


> “Even when I feel unhappy, tiny things still seem shatteringly beautiful, like the exact range of colours in a brick wall,” the narrator comments. It’s fitting, then, that her observations capture the derelict beauty of “that 6:00 a.m. city moment where the workaholics and alcoholics, early birds and insomniacs fleetingly collide” and the relief of touching a beloved’s hand, likened to “sipping water when you’re thirsty, or a first cigarette of the day.” These images, which shimmer in Stothard’s accomplished, lyrical prose, carry us willingly along on her narrator’s painful journey to self-realization.




*** Bleaker Pastures: 'Idiopathy,' By Sam Byers ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/07/books/review/idiopathy-by-sam-byers.html?ref=books&_r=0>
Joshua Cohen, New York Times


> The problem of how to treat this novel, with its traumas so rigged and rictus so fixed, finally approximates another British dilemma: “Hobson’s choice,” named after Thomas Hobson, a carrier and stable owner who came of age during the reign of Elizabeth I. Whenever Hobson wasn’t using his horses to deliver goods, he rented them out, and in order to ensure their fair rotation adopted the policy that each customer had to accept the next horse available, or none at all. “Take it or leave it” — the only catch phrase for dark literature, and dark life.




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