“With the amount of data Amazon has available, there’s a massive opportunity to use that as a pretty powerful targeting technique online and into mobile.”
Tag: 05.28.12
Why Americans Will Pay More To Live Where They Can Walk
“Looking at the Washington, D.C., region, they’ve calculated that moving from a Level 1 to a Level 2 walkable neighborhood (from a non-walkable place to a slightly less non-walkable one), you will wind up paying $301.76 a month more in rent for a similar home. If you’re really moving up in the world – from, say, that car-dependent exurb to a Georgetown flat – that means the premium to live in a walkable urban community may run you as much as $1,200 a month.”
What London Protests Against Israeli Theatre Company Looked Like To Protestees
While the actual performances of The Merchant of Venice by Habima at the Globe to Globe festival suffered only quick, minor disruptions, the controversy and calls for a boycott beforehand were loud and vehement. Members of the Habima company give their side of the story.
Only Philosophers Go To Hell
“This is because only someone who understands exactly what she is doing in sinning or rejecting God could deserve such a fate as Hell, and only a philosophical education could provide that kind of understanding. So, it follows, only philosophers can go to Hell.”
Nico Muhly Dismisses The Whole Death-Of-Classical Music Idea
“The internet is filled with people saying that blah blah classical music is dying blah blah. Chances are, they are being paid to say this. … I just don’t buy it. Classical music is urgent and vibrant because we are making it that way, and I don’t see how Beethoven 7 being used to disperse people is symptomatic of any bigger problem.”
Spanish Artist Faces Jail On Blasphemy Charges
“Javier Krahe, who has been a popular and provocative figure in Spain for nearly half a century, … faces up to a year in prison after being prosecuted for ‘offending religious feelings’ in relation to a short film he made more than 30 years ago that claimed to show ‘how to cook Jesus Christ’.”
The Argumentative Ape: Why Humans Are Wired To Persuade
Impulse thinking, confirmation bias, fuzzy logic – why did humans get such a flawed reasoning apparatus? It may just be that we eveolved not to reason, but to argue and persuade.
After 31 Years, Sol DeWitt Garden Design Planted In Philadelphia
In 1981, DeWitt was commissioned to design a horticultural installation for Fairmount Park. The plan he produced, titled Lines in Four Directions in Flowers, ended up going dormant (as it were) for three decades. Newly completed, Lines stretches out from just beyond the rear portico of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Is The Mariinsky’s New Boris Godunov Anti-Putin?
“At one point in [Graham Vick’s] new production of the Mussorgsky opera] the stage at the Saint Petersburg theatre is swarmed by riot police and protesters brandishing slogans, in a clear reference to the street demonstrtations against Vladimir Putin’s rule.”
In Defense Of Regieoper
The co-artistic director of Sydney’s Baroque opera company (!) argues in favor of the notorious phenomenon of stage directors updating and changing (sometimes in quite perverse ways) the settings and scenarios of classic operas.