[MyAppleMenu] Jul 5, 2014

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*** Patching The Newton ***
<http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2233>
Landon Dyer, Dadhacker

> This one ends with me going into a Good Guys electronics store in a suburb of Boston, flashing my employee badge and saying “I’m from Apple. Take me to your Newtons.” I wanted to use a deep G-man voice, but I didn’t have the build for it. Also, I was wearing the slightly redonkulous khaki-pants and polo shirt that we’d been instructed to wear for the Newton debut the next day, and I looked like a rah-rah Apple sales guy.  Appearances are deceiving.



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*** And Fade Out ... But Not Fade Away ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/movies/life-itself-reminiscences-of-roger-ebert.html>
Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Times

> “Life Itself,” Steve James’s documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, is in many ways like a wake at which intimate acquaintances warmly recall their departed friend in all his aspects, foibles and quirks along with his talents and triumphs. Deep currents of love and sorrow flow under the succession of often funny recollections of a busy life. But it is a wake where the departed is still present.



*** Under The Influence ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/books/review/fridays-at-enricos-by-don-carpenter.html?ref=books&_r=0>
Douglas Brinkley, New York Times

> If Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prefigured the Age of Aquarius, then Don Carpenter’s semi-­autobiographical “Fridays at Enrico’s” can be read as the swan song of the entire Love Generation.



*** How To Write A Modern Ghost Story ***
<http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/04/how-write-modern-ghost-story>
Joanna Briscoe, The Guardian

> It was only after I was approached to write a novella with a supernatural aspect that I realised all my novels are haunted: by the past, by desire or by guilt. And so it took only a small shift to see that I could take this one step further.



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