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Though it published its last issue three days ago the Ann Arbor News had a Plan B: lay off all 272 of its employees and continue posting news online, chronologically – blog-style.
Because it is likely that we’ll soon see many more print papers buy the proverbial farm, annarbor.com’s tortured path is worth following. From the Nieman Lab.
David Foster Wallace in 2006 on Roger Federer’s impossibly good game.
Because I’d like to extend the streak even further, here’s a link to an (extremely entertaining) article that DFW wrote for Esquire in 1996 describing the state-of-the-art of professional tennis in uncomfortable detail.
“Then — often while you’re in the shower or after a night’s sleep — the answer comes to you. You experience a fantastic rush of pleasure that feels like a million tiny magnets suddenly clicking into alignment.”•
The imminent demise of the hard-copy newspaper will have unforeseen consequences: the demise of the hard-copy newspaper comic strip.
These cartoonists aren’t gonna take it lying down.
The WebKit team (WebKit being the open-source engine that drives Safari) recently unveiled some impressive new tricks.
Check out Charles Ying’s Snow Stack, for one. The WebKit Blog has a few more.
A couple of notes – if you want to try them out you’ll need both the latest WebKit build and a Mac.
A collection of baseball infographics and other cool visuals – like pixellated player portraits – all laboriously put together by an English dude living in Berlin.