A year later, media analysts remain puzzled by the decision to buy the paper. Bezos, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is holding his cards close to his chest. He has no influence on the editorial side, according to Baron, but is focused on “broader strategic efforts.” If Bezos has any…

Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs’s office. After his death in 2011, Tim Cook, his friend and successor as Apple chief executive officer, decided to leave the sparsely decorated room on the fourth floor of 1 Infinite Loop untouched. It’s not a shrine or place of mourning, but just a space that…

About This Story About The Author Alexandra Molotkow Alexandra Molotkow, a former Walrus editor, is the senior editor of Hazlitt . Editorial Policies Editorial Policies Editorial Standards Page About The Walrus The Walrus was founded in 2003. As a registered charity, we publish independent,…

20th Century Fox Note: While we tried to avoid specifics as much as possible here, there are still some spoilers. Reader beware. Three years ago, David Fincher ’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo took a grim, controversial best-selling mystery novel and turned it into the sleekest art it could be,…

In 2000, a reporter for the Ottawa Citizen trailed the founders of Vice magazine through Manhattan as they met with a talent scout from MTV . Vice was the sum of its three founders—Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith—20-something guys who, 20 years ago this month, took over a Montreal…

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Because I was 16 and because I was angry, too readily bored and too easily lonely, and because I wanted very badly to be accepted by anyone at all, I once spent the better part of an October weekend doing nitrous oxide in a San Diego hotel suite with a dozen or so hackers and internet trolls. My…

David Fincher’s directing career started in 1984 with an anti-smoking PSA for the American Cancer Society that depicted a fetus smoking a cigarette. The ironic juxtaposition of images immediately became Fincher’s calling card. It led him into an early career as a director of commercials and music…

Early in the film Tender Loving Care , Michael (Michael Esposito) brings breakfast to his wife, Allison (Marie Caldare), a beautiful young woman who looks confused and vaguely ill. Michael explains that he has hired a nurse to come and take care of their daughter, though it seems obvious enough that…

This article is now available in Japanese: 紙と鉛筆でビットコインをマイニング：1日に0.67ハッシュ and Russian: Майним Bitcoin с помощью бумаги и ручки . I decided to see how practical it would be to mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper.It turns out that the SHA-256 algorithm used for mining is pretty simple and can in fact be…

In The Throwdown we compare two movies, whether they’re similar or wildly different. They will always have a connection whether they be films in a franchise, or films starring the same people or films with the same premise. One of the greatest things about the Alien franchise is how different each…

Last month I spent a weekend doing “wet-plate collodion photography” course. As you may have noticed, I enjoy the challenge of shooting film, and I’ve tried successively larger formats (including 120 and 5×4). Larger formats mean fewer shots and require me to put much more thought into each image.…

You don't realize how "safe" and unimaginative most game worlds are until something comes along that breaks from genre tradition. The environments and industrial design of Alien: Isolation are just such a break, and they're two of the most exciting aspects of the game. Ridley Scott's Alien film…

By the end of this century, the romance of Venice might be a lot closer to Boston than you’d expect — like just off Storrow Drive. A report scheduled to be released Tuesday about preparing Boston for climate change suggests that building canals through the Back Bay neighborhood would help it…

Inside every David Fincher work, there are dozens of little dalliances — illicit affairs, taking place just out of plain sight. The elevator pitches are tight — aging backward, founding Facebook, Zodiac killer, Swedish banking crime, seven deadly sins, don’t talk about Fight Club — and most of them…

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Jimi Hendrix’s London girlfriend Kathy Etchingham speaks out against John Ridley’s new biopic Long in a development haze has been the new Jimi Hendrix biopic, Jimi: All Is By My Side, which hits theaters in the U.S. on September 26th. Directed by John Ridley, the film stars Outkast’s Andre Benjamin…

The world's best airline experience, from Singapore to New York. In 2008, Singapore Airlines introduced their Suites Class, the most luxurious class of flying that is commercially available. The Suites were exclusive to their flagship Airbus A380, and they go beyond flat beds by offering enclosed…

‘Guardians of the Galaxy’s Peter Quill is secure in his affection for the music of the late 1970s. (Disney – Marvel/Associated Press) In a debate on the nature of geek culture at its present juncture published earlier this week, my friend Frederick deBoer wrote what I think is a succinct and…

Alibaba CEO Jack Ma outside the New York Stock Exchange prior to his company's initial public offering Friday. Jason DeCrow / AP Amazon, Facebook, IBM, Intel. As of midday on Friday, Alibaba is now worth more than all of them. On its first day as a publicly traded company on the New York Stock…

Darren Aronofsky and Leonardo DiCaprio went to the Canadian tar sand deposits, which exist under an area of forest and wetland the size of Florida. Until the drilling begins. This is a journal of their journey. Brandi-Ann Milbradt Even before there was a script for my last film, Noah , I was…

The rise and fall of Joe Meek and Phil Spector While the no-man’s-land of 1960 had made stars of Frankie Avalon and Bobby Vee, wipe-clean fifties faces who would inform future revivals like Grease, it had also allowed for a second, slower and less vaunted, wave of modern pop. Pop’s deceleration led…

On this date 20 years ago, Friends premiered on NBC. As things often go on the Internet, such an anniversary warrants intelligent, thought-provoking takes on how said thing holds up and, ultimately, what it all means. The Friends series finale was 10 years ago — which is perhaps an even more…

“This cart is now a coffin”, posted UK games writer Richard Stanton, adding “RIP Hamlet the best Labrador in the world :’(“. I can’t help but wonder what’s happened to Hamlet, trapped inside that little plastic bit. In the case of a Nintendog cartridge the end is probably swift and painless, and…

Gail Tilden used to work at Nintendo. She was one of the founding editors of Nintendo Power, so knows better than most people how the company was able to sell one of Mario's strangest moments - a game that wasn't even really a Mario game - to the world. In this excerpt from Jon Irwin's book Super…

When it comes to hip-hop producers, Wu-Tang Clan 's RZA has always been among the most visionary and entrepreneurial of the bunch. Feeling the need to restore value to the artistry of music-makers in today's era of disposable content and detached listeners, he released an album, of which only one…

For his newest awesome trick, Steven Soderbergh made a silent, black-and-white version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Credit: Provided ‘Raiders’ Extension 765 Steven Soderbergh retired from movies last year, but he’s arguably never been busier. Along with Singani 63 , his line of clear,…

Facebook has been abuzz of late about a curious new phenomenon: People leaving Facebook in favor of a smaller, simpler social media site called Ello . The fervor for Ello took hold this week in light of Facebook's recent "real names" crackdown -- forcing folks to use their legal names on their…

“Ready to eat well?” asks Anthony Bourdain. The chef turned TV star is leading the way toward a pair of narrow seats at the New York outpost of a Michelin-rated Tokyo yakitori joint called Tori Shin, a tightly packed establishment that’s Bourdain’s kind of place: little-known, deeply authentic, and…

The following essay contains significant spoilers for David Fincher’s Seven and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button , and a few minor scene descriptions from Gone Girl . The early reviews of David Fincher’s Gone Girl are mostly positive (86 percent as of this writing on Rotten Tomatoes ), but…

Lost premiered 10 years ago this week. It ended four and a half years ago. And I still miss it like crazy. This doesn’t seem to be a popular opinion these days, as backlash to the underwhelming series finale seems to have overtaken the memory of everything that came before. But backlash has…

For the first 10 minutes of Resident Evil 4 , there's scarcely an enemy. Instead, the emphasis is on the Spanish countryside — a dim, damp, grey, crushing sadness. Crows fly low to the ground. A dog whimpers in pain, his front leg caught in an iron trap. It's quiet — almost unsettlingly so. And,…