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November 22, 2009

Joe Sacco
Rachel Cooke interviews Joe Sacco in Guardian Review.
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November 19, 2009

more is more
The second edition of The Elements of Statistical Learning (Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman) is available as a PDF download here.
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R in Action
On One R Tip A Day, an early review of Ron Kabacoff's R in Action.
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November 17, 2009

S2
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C McC
Interview of Cormac McCarthy in the WSJ.
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November 14, 2009

S1
Zwei Herzen schlagen also in der Brust des passionierten Krimi-Sehers.

Susanne Beyer in Der Spiegel
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November 13, 2009

by other means
n 1969, Britain lost a 25-year business war it had been fighting with America for control of the UK film market. In 1969, the British government capitulated to Washington in a secret deal, and removed the protections that, until then, had sustained British Cinema. When these protections were removed (primarily certain tax breaks and the Eady Levy) the British film studios were doomed. Associated British Pictures and the Rank Organisation quit film operations in 1970, and British Lion scaled b...
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I got you babe

As part of the application to my screenwriting course at Harvard I ask the students to ask me a question. Most of the questions I've received are just fine – good indicators of what the student hopes to learn and sometimes what they misunderstand about what screenwriters do. Yesterday I got this question and it simply blew me away:

"Would you write a feature length screenplay if you knew it would not be produced?"

Oh my. That gets to the heart of so many things.

My immediate response is...

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jobsworth
An important question, surprisingly often overlooked, is how you want to actually spend your time, day by day and hour by hour. In academia, you will immediately be plunged into hands-on science, and your drivers will be to start out on your career by getting results, publishing, networking, and building your reputation with a view to impressing your tenure committee. A career in industry may put more of an early emphasis on your organizational aptitude, people skills, powers of persuasion...
0 comments Published on November 13, 2009 17:14
RB

Or take a sentence like this one, from Barthes's first book. He is not talking about a writer or a text or a style or an image or a story, but about … a tense. This is the preterite, the past historic, which in French exists only in written texts. It is, Barthes says,

the ideal instrument for every construction of a world; it is the unreal tense of cosmogonies, myths, history and novels. It presupposes a world which is constructed, elaborated, self-sufficient, reduced to significant lines...

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