D on Johnson finds it hard to remember the exact cards. Who could? At the height of his 12-hour blitz of the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, last April, he was playing a hand of blackjack nearly every minute. Dozens of spectators pressed against the glass of the high-roller pit.…

Touring Australia with various dance festivals, staying at luxury hotels and hanging out with popular bands is the kind of rock-star lifestyle many kids dream of. But for music booker and event manager Jerry Poon , 35, current pop acts and big commercial festivals are a small part of his job and not…

The Technology of a Better Footnote, by @ayjay at @TheAtlantic, praises Instapaper's footnote popovers: http://t.co/Om7k1aug

Analysis Politics Twitter — Snurb, 9 March 2012 There will be another post on the continuing Queensland election campaign soon, but before we get to that, I wanted to push out another quick snippet of analysis which I’ve been hoping to get to for some time. For several months now, we’ve been…

Sandwiched between the electrifying, envelope-pushing nihilism of Seven and Fight Club , The Game generally gets lumped alongside Panic Room as an example of what it looks like when David Fincher chooses to coast a little. Reviews at the time ranged from mildly respectful to kindly dismissive, with…

By Patrick Desjardins I sat in front of my laptop at work, watching the videos from the previous night. While logically I knew this was Star Wars Galaxies , I recognized nothing on the screen. It was like watching a completely different game. In that video, I saw the end to what could have been an…

Download “Make Your Thing” Manifesto (PDF) Make Your Thing: 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success For the past two years or so, I’ve been crisscrossing the country, delivering an award-winning talk called Make Your Thing. (I should note that it has not won any…

In 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone that revolutionized the technology industry and changed the way we work and do business. It is 2012 now and increasingly, more and more websites are offering native iOS and Android clients as front ends to their service. Not all startups have the funding to…

Horse_ebooks is a Twitter spam bot originally set up to promote horse-ebooks.com, an online store of horse-themed ebooks with a retro design equal parts GeoCities and MySpace. In addition to tweeting spam links, Horse_ebooks has apparently been programed to evade Twitter's spam filters by posting…

A discussion with Director DAVID FINCHER, Creative Director TIM MILLER at Blur Studio , and Designer NEIL KELLERHOUSE at Kellerhouse, Inc. Let’s start with the song. How and when did you decide to use “Immigrant Song” for the sequence? DF: I think it was a year ago, just before we returned to LA,…

Maybe you are like me. Maybe you are in your forties, your twenties, somewhere in between. You grew up in an American town of average size, in a middle-class household with parents who dutifully worked at indistinct jobs. You watched television, mostly sitcoms. You owned a Sega Genesis, perhaps a…

On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on a fourth-place network bested the Huxtables and the world's best amateur athletes. Fox over NBC and CBS—its first-ever victory in…

The Information Diet: You Are What You Read…Really (so read this) If this is indeed the Information Age, then we are in big trouble. In a talk titled “Is SEO Killing America?” at last week’s Tools of Change digital publishing conference in New York, former political strategist, open source…

The inauspicious nerve center for Los Angeles’ most promising hip-hop movement is the back room of a residential home at the end of a cul-de-sac in a reasonably idyllic neighborhood in the city of Carson. The dimly lit studio space leaves just enough room for a tattered couch, a vocal booth and a…

On last night’s episode of HBO’s Luck , there was a hypnotic horse race approximately halfway through the hour. For a brief moment, all of the elements that had been in disparate play throughout David Milch’s newest endeavor coalesced in a haunting, nonverbal sequence in which the race itself united…

Sometimes we surprise even ourselves. With the new Burial EP ('Kindred') leaking out of the ClashMusic stereo, someone pointed out that we had - in fact - already interviewed the reclusive London producer. Back in late 2007, Clash journalist Adam Park was dispatched for a rare chat with the seminal…

The Next 50 Years – Why I'm Optimistic The Future Will Be Terrible. Bonus mention of The Singularity: http://t.co/zKBgTCGO

Antonio Bolfo/Reportage for The New York Times Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to…

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The obvious elements that have been noticeable since his early work are still present: vinyl crackle and static as the patter of raindrops on the roof of a bus shelter; sub-bass as great volcanic belches and whipping wind, like the stale air and omnipresent rumble of a tube train; beats built from…

After you've latched on to a new drama as enthusiastically as I've latched onto David Milch and Michael Mann's Luck , only to read tweets and Facebook posts and even whole articles declaring that it's slow and pretentious and not worth committing to, you start to see auto-critical flourishes in the…

In Croatia it takes a strongman like Alen Borbas—security tycoon and nightclub owner—to open up a nationalist music to outside talent. Photograph by Sasha Colic At only about five-foot-six, Alen Borbas was still an imposing man. With his thick legs, long, muscled arms and low center of gravity, it…

Rustie's debut album Glass Swords, you see, is a playful riot of a record, a neon tapestry of sonic thrills that incorporates 80s pop, happy hardcore, the Seinfeld theme, soft rock and hip-hop – often all at the same time. It refuses to sit still for more than a nanosecond and has been hailed by…

"Sarah likes Pringles." The immediate meaning of this phrase is simple and innocuous. But I hate it. Nor am I alone in being repulsed by the deeply entrenched tentacles of product and corporate brands within ‘social' media spaces. I've written about this issue from the human side before, about how…

Keith Waterhouse; pissed and bloody pioneer. Photograph: UPPA Ltd. There have been a number of Leeds events and people that tested and pushed at the boundaries of 'public decency' and a couple of things brought them to mind. The first was when a TV channel recently apologised for the language and…

by Angela Eun Ji Koh I browsed CIA.gov for jobs On the online application I marked spots for Targeting Officer Intelligence Collection Analyst Counterterrorism Methodologist and Librarian The text said Be prepared to undergo a thorough investigation examining your life’s history, soundness of…