Big House Archive

  • The New Yorker on how the iPad saved publishing – for now

    The New Yorker on how the iPad saved publishing – for now

    This will be gone. Before the iPad, Amazon was about to destroy publishing. That was the gist of a story by Ken Auletta for the New Yorker. Up until the announcement of the iPad, writes Auletta, Amazon was going to begin their own imprint, essentially making hardcover books obsolete and then cutting out the publishers and [...]

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  • Tokyo’s Lifesize Gundam Robot Is Big Enough to Squash Your House

    Tokyo’s Lifesize Gundam Robot Is Big Enough to Squash Your House

    Toy Story can suck it. The Japanese didn’t need computer animation to bring this toy to life. Pictured above, a lifesize Gundam robot in Tokyo stands at a gawk-worthy 59-feet tall. The robot looks even more impressive when it lights up at night (pic and video below the jump). Now all they have to do [...]

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  • Swedish girl drops out of school to play Counter-Strike

    Swedish girl drops out of school to play Counter-Strike

    Lest you think that youngsters are incapable of making good decisions, please observe Sweden’s Sophie Regner, who just dropped out of high school to play Counter-Strike full time. Well, maybe not full time. Regner, also known as “inzane” when playing Counter-Strike, admits that she spends a lot of time just hanging around with friends. To her [...]

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