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Now here’s a sight for sore eyes: Guided by Voices in its original (more or less) lineup recording Let’s Go Eat the Factory, its first new album since 1996’s Under the Bushes Under the Stars, in a basement rec room, with Robert Pollard singing in a doorway and bass player Greg Demos monitoring the TASCAM four-track cassette recording deck while sitting in a chair that appears to have been stolen from a kindergarten: Pollard is one of the great American artists of the past 50 years, though I suspect it will be another 50 years before that begins to be acknowledged. There are more things in heaven and earth, Lightning Boy, than are dreamt of in your philosophy….

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CNet: So you want to lose weight? Train for a marathon? Swim faster? With 9,000 health apps in Apple’s iOS App Store–with such titles as RunKeeper for runners, Strava for cyclists, and Gain Fitness for weight lifters–the health app market can appear pretty bloated. And most apps are built with a specific activity in mind.

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One of the essential characteristics of the printed book, as of the scribal codex that preceded it, is its edges. Those edges, as John Updike pointed out not long before he died, manifest themselves in the physical form of bound books – “some are rough-cut, some are smooth-cut, and a few, at least at my extravagant publishing house, are even top-stained” – but they are also there aesthetically and even metaphysically, giving each book integrity as a work in itself. That doesn’t mean that a book exists in isolation – its words, as written and as read, form rich connections with other books as well as with the worlds of nature and of men – but rather that a book offers a self-contained experience. The sense of self-containment is what makes a good book so satisfying to its readers, and the requirement of self-containment is what spurs the writer to the highest levels of literary achievement. The book must feel complete between its edges. The idea of edges, of separateness, is antithetical to the web, which as a hypermedium dissolves all boundaries, renders implicit connections explicit. Indeed, much of the power and usefulness of the web as a technology derives…

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TrendCentral: TheIceBreak aims to enhance users love lives by encouraging meaningful communication between partners. To get started, partners privately rate their satisfaction with their significant other in various areas. Based on these answers, the site endorses communication-boosting activities, such as sharing moments from ones day or answering a series of questions like Whats your favorite memory of the relationship so far? or Whats your ideal Sunday morning? Posts can be shared publicly or remain on the couples private Relationship Wall. Consistent activity earns Date Night Coins, which can be used towards coupons and deals. Like Kahnoodle, a dashboard allows users to visualize the evolution of their relationship over time.

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