“According to a complaint filed on Thursday in California state court, [CEO Tim] Cook and other senior Apple figures bear ‘responsibility for ensnaring Apple in a multi-year anticompetitive scheme’ that resulted in a highly-publicized trial and a proposed $450 million payout … The shareholders claim that Cook and others … breached their fiduciary duty to the company and engaged in ‘waste of corporate assets’.”
Tag: 09.05.14
Save The Footnote!
Nathan Heller: “Online, explicit source citation tends to be redundant: you don’t need notes, because, ideally, you can click to an original source. In this context, the removal of back matter makes some kind of sense. But publishers aren’t taking endnotes off the Web. They’re putting them on the Web. Instead, back matter is starting to vanish from books, the one place where it’s still very much needed.”
We Used To Describe The Brain In Metaphors (Now It’s All Electrical Impulses And Neurons)
“What’s emerging from these studies isn’t just a theory of language or of metaphor. It’s a nascent theory of consciousness. Any algorithmic system faces the problem of bootstrapping itself from computing to knowing, from bit-shuffling to caring.”
Royal Ballet Dancers Become Canvas For Chris Ofili
The Turner Prize winner personally paints the leotards of all six dancers in Unearthed, a collaboration with choreographer Aakash Odedra that mixes ballet with kathak (North Indian dance) to retell the story of Prometheus and the creation of the first man from clay.
How Do You Rhyme In Sign Language?
“Since rhyme is based on the repetition of portions of words, the portions of words that get repeated don’t necessarily have to be sounds. They could also be movement, hand shape, location, palm orientation, or other components of signs.” (Includes video clips and a bonus: “finger fumblers”, the sign-language equivalent of tongue twisters.)
China Finally Gets Its Own Fine Art Photography Fair
“The big question is whether that curiosity will translate into sales as the market for fine art photography in China is still developing. Many visitors just seemed excited to see so much quality photography in one place.”
Historical Fiction Often, And Easily, Beats Historical Fact
“Not certainty but the kind of uncertainty that encourages us all to struggle with our convictions to some point of moral balance, played its part in engaging me emotionally with the past.”
The Pop Artist Who Made Her Art ‘Ooze’ To Make Fun Of Her Male Peers Has Died
Marjorie Strider added sculptural components to “paintings of plants and vegetables but also bright triptychs of bikini-clad women, adding what she called ‘build-outs’ to make the breasts and bottoms of the women emerge realistically out of the image, a challenge to the passive gaze.”
Who’s Responsible For Bad Architecture?
The winners of a prize for worst architecture squabble about who’s to blame, but “whichever party bears ultimate responsibility, these decisions have real consequences for city-dwellers.”
A New Legal Battle Over Vivian Maier’s Work Could Keep It Out Of Museums For Years
“The legal case to determine whether Mr. Baille is Maier’s closest relative has now set in motion a process that Chicago officials say could take years and could result in Maier’s works’ being pulled from gallery inventories and museum shows until a determination is made.”