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Recent Original Stories (New Mobile Computing)

16 May 2008

"For at least a decade, the standard advice to every computer user has been to run antivirus software. But new, more commercial, more complex and stealthier types of malware have people in the industry asking: will antivirus software be effective for much longer ? Among the threats they see are malware that uses the ability of the latest processors to run virtual machines that would be hidden ...

Why I love the French (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

16 May 2008

Just when the Cannes Film Festival had me craving something French, I remembered that the Contemporary Art Museum was screening a Godard double feature tonight. And hours earlier I had been reading a new biography of the firebrand French director.

Forward.com (Forward)

16 May 2008

The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siècle Europe By Paul Reitter The University of Chicago Press, 256 pages, $35. Modern journalism, especially as practiced in America, utilizes what is perhaps the most stifling literary form ever conceived outside of metric poetry.