"Fuck them is what I say. I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won’t give a shit."

Renowned children’s book author MAURICE SENDAK, telling us how he really feels, on The Colbert Report. (via inothernews)

The beloved children’s book author, of Where the Wild Things Are, has passed away at the age of 83.

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APRIL 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated

Forty-four years ago, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

Watch this American Experience clip of King describing the teachings of the nonviolence movement.

King also shares his thoughts on Malcolm X’s criticism and President Kennedy’s strides to help the Civil Rights Movement.

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RIP Heavy D

“iPod Nation,” NEWSWEEK, July 26, 2004. 

“From early on we wanted a product that would seem so natural and so inevitable and so simple you almost wouldn’t think of it as having been designed,” says Apple’s industrial designer. This austerity extended to the whiteness of the iPod, a double-crystal polymer Antarctica, a blankness that screams in brilliant colors across a crowded subway. 

Assessing the final product, Jobs bestowed, for him, the ultimate accolade: “It’s as Apple as anything Apple has ever done.”

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The year the lowercase i became a way of life.

Wired has gone black

A classic.

RIP Aaliyah.

NEWSWEEK's Dan Stone Spent a Night in Vegas with Tom Bosley

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The inimitable Dan Stone writes about his childhood encounter with the dearly departed performer.

Dan’s recollection of Tom Bosley is clear: he was seated in a cocktail lounge.