The two leaves can be opened and closed to simulate turning pages, or even separated to pass round or compare documents. When the two leaves are folded back, the device shows one display on each side. Simply turning it over reveals a new page.
An Indonesian businessman known for publicity stunts dropped 100 million rupiah, or about $10,700, from an aircraft Sunday to promote his new book. Tung Desem Waringin circled eight times over a soccer field in the city of Serang, about 40 miles west of Jakarta, emptying bag after black bag of cash.
I never seem to be in the right place at the right time.
Remember the time Fox News pissed on Kurt Vonnegut's grave? The network upheld its belles lettres legacy the other night as Greg Gutfeld and his Red Eye cohorts branded Stephen King "partially brain-dead" and "a raging alcoholic," along with cracking jokes about running him over in a van, because they didn't like the way he phrased his exhortation to teens to read more.
After covering corpses in Stiff and ghosts in Spook, Mary Roach tackled a new (for her) subject in Bonk, sex. In this video from Slate Magazine, Mary Roach discusses the book, including how she and her husband were the first people to be filmed in 4D ultrasound while having sex. Seems up til now, no one knew exactly where the parts inside interacted. Ultrasound pic included.
This one minute and twenty second book promo clip’s getting an impressive number of views and rave reviews. ABC3D is a super cool alphabet pop-up book. Check it out. Don’t miss the V to W pages.
Titlepage's first episode: All Over The Map. On this episode we "travel" across the world with some of the country's best novelists. This episode features fiction that takes us to the Lower East Side of New York, a midwestern college campus, the bustling stock exchange of Shanghai, and the neon streets of Las Vegas. Our guests are: Richard Price, Colin Harrison, Susan Choi and Charles Bock.
How do you respond when your work is rejected? How would you like to respond? Enjoy a few moments of vicarious vengeance through this writer’s riposte. Very funny.
Do you ever wonder what your neighborhood librarian actually does all day long? Like, maybe he or she is just sitting around, surfing the interwebs. Or emailing your teacher to concoct some kind of evil research project that requires 397 primary sources. Or maybe you just imagine your librarian somehow reading, knitting, and telling people to be quiet, all at the same time?
Got a problem? Has your mother's fifth child gotten involved with witches? Are you the fourth and rich and naive?
Well, if you think you have a problem you should make yourself see this movie. You will no longer feel abused and you will discover the meaning of black horror!
This ad took a fair bit of doing. Guiness’ most expensive advertisement ever, it begins with a domino and ends with 10,000 books unfolding into a giant Guiness bottle. Tres cool. Shot on location in a remote village in northern Argentina, with a population of around 1,000 people. Toppling items included: 6,000 dominoes, 10,000 books, 400 tires, 75 mirrors, 50 fridges, 45 wardrobes and 6 cars.
There’s something so appealing about pop-up books, no matter what your age. They’re intricate and amazing creations, and I guess the fact that they’re still completely hand made adds to their appeal. Robert Sabuda, paper engineer, talks about the challenges and joys of creating these special books.
I suppose we could have used the title 'not safe for anyone' many times already, but I thought it would be especially pertinent here because in this show Richard and Hans illustrate the many situations in which the C-word is perfectly appropriate.
