One of the great things about The New Yorker is that they are one of the few places to still do long form journalism. (But now that Sarah Palin has decided to save journalism, this may change.)
Lawrence Wright's The Apostate: Paul Haggis Vs. the Church of Scientology is an amazing piece of long form. I appreciate well sourced and well written pieces even when I don't like the subject, but Scientology fascinates me.
Anyway, for something interesting and fascinating, give it a read.
Edit (6:32 pm): Slate has a great blog post about how it is candy for journalism nerds.
Here is a video of Davis responding to Anonymous/4Chan's attack on Scientology:
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, March 14, 2010
In Honor of Pi Day
I remember reading this article when I was in high school.
It is about the Chudnovsky brothers who invented a supercomputer in order to calculate Pi.
This is interesting because it comes from a time when the New Yorker used to do eighteen page profiles on interesting people who weren't necessarily in the limelight and because it is about something that shows a single minded devotion to a subject matter that is unrepentently geeky. They (the brothers) even went so far as writing their own algorithm in order to calculate Pi.
How awesome is that?
It is about the Chudnovsky brothers who invented a supercomputer in order to calculate Pi.
This is interesting because it comes from a time when the New Yorker used to do eighteen page profiles on interesting people who weren't necessarily in the limelight and because it is about something that shows a single minded devotion to a subject matter that is unrepentently geeky. They (the brothers) even went so far as writing their own algorithm in order to calculate Pi.
How awesome is that?
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