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Friday, August 25, 2017

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This (shopfront) world is but canvas to our imaginations.” Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ... read more




Vote against gay marriage, Catholics urged



A last-minute surge has seen a record number of Australians enrolled to vote ahead of the upcoming postal survey on same-sex marriage Extraordinary 100,000 new digital native voters join electoral roll boosting hopes for yes campaign

“Merchants of War and Peace: British knowledge of China in the making of the Opium War” by Song-Chuan ChenAsian Review of Books


Will Big Data Eat Hollywood’s Lunch?



Hollywood relies ever more heavily on repetitive content.
Will firms like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google swallow it whole?





Who Owns the Internet? What Big Tech’s monopoly powers mean for our culture. “…Today, just about everybody uses it for everything. Even as the Web has grown, however, it has narrowed. Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales. Such dominance, Jonathan Taplin argues, in “Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy” (Little, Brown), is 
essentially monopolistic

Rodrigo Duterte, Australian spy chief Nick Warner in extraordinary photo



Strewth: taxing times


The ATO Making Inclusion Count (ATOMIC) network for LGBTI tax collectors was addressed by City of Sydney councillor Christine Forster ...

'Gee, it's going to be hard': Tax commissioner Chris Jordan




Wired, Julie Garwood (PRH/Berkley; OverDrive Sample).
“When Agent Liam Scott recruits a beautiful hacker, Allison Trent, to find a leak within the FBI, he uses her cousin’s criminal record as leverage. As they try to deny their growing attraction, the computer program Allison developed is stolen. Liam helps track down the thief while protecting her from continual harassment and attempts on her life. I genuinely enjoyed reading this novel. The whole book was tightly plotted and well written. This is a story I would highly recommend to romance readers, especially those new to the genre.” — Maria Gruener, Watertown Regional Library, Watertown, SD














The True Crime Genre Has Gone Upscale And Literary. Is It An Improvement?



“Not for them the tabloid gusto of the genre’s doyenne, Ann Rule (“The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure,” The Stranger Beside Me).They’re more likely to follow the lead of one of the first post-Serial memoirists to wrap a crime story in her own enveloping subjectivity, Amy Butcher, author of 2015’s Visiting Hours: A Memoir of Friendship and Murder.”
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