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Who Can Profit from Selling 1-Cent Books on... →

Fascinating story including the beautiful detail that bots on Amazon are now composing books out of Wikipedia content , which they then, according to another story I saw, engage in automated bidding wars for.

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this isn't happiness.: The several disorders and... →

nevver: 1. Rufflers (thieving beggars, apprentice uprightment) 2. Uprightmen (leaders of robber bands) 3. Hookers or anglers (thieves who steal through windows with hooks) 4. Rogues (rank-and-file vagabonds) 5. Wild rogues (those born of rogues) 6. Priggers of prancers (horse thieves) 7. Palliards…

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Feb 10th

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Terry Gilliam School of Film: 10 Lessons for...

nevver: Growing up is for losers. Film school is for fools. Auteurism is out. Fil-teurism is in. Put your ideas in a drawer. Take them out as needed. All you’ve really got in life is story. Command the audience with your lens. Nothing can defeat a director who is one with his actors. Surround yourself with improvisers. Directing is not for the faint-of-heart. Or the sane. Be an...

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