Tuesday, June 4, 2019

It Costs *How* Much?!

The rise and fall of iTunes, Apple's most hated app, Apple Keynote Crowd Goes Completely Silent When The Cost Of The Display Stand Is Announced, and more.
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MATTER OF LOOKS
STRADDLING THE LINE
The Gymnast's Position
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Two decades ago, a billboard went up over Salt Lake City featuring a stunning portrait of a young woman in a leotard. The woman on the billboard wasn't a model but a gymnast on that 1992-93 team, 19-year-old sophomore Aimee Trepanier, whose pose from her floor routine was advertised as a way to sell competition tickets for the then-defending NCAA champions. But to others in Salt Lake City, the ad was selling something else: sex.
THE SCRUFF OF LEGEND
The Sum Of All Beards
newrepublic.com
How did facial hair win American men's hearts and minds? Thank the war on terror.
A VIEW OF THE AFTERMATH
Harrowing Photos From The 1986 Chernobyl Disaster
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The workers and emergency responders were not the only ones to risk their lives — a handful of photographers went to the scene as well, managing to capture images of some of the chaos and acts of heroism that took place in the weeks and months that followed.
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DUB DUB DISPATCH
MUSIC TO OUR EARS
The Rise And Fall Of iTunes, Apple's Most Hated App
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It was a long run for iTunes, the jukebox software that revolutionized the music industry after its launch in 2001. But now, in the year 2019, it's finally being put out of its misery — and ours.
$1,000 FOR... A STAND?
WATCH: Apple Keynote Crowd Goes Completely Silent When The Cost Of The Display Stand Is Announced
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If you didn't watch the livestream of Apple's WWDC keynote yesterday, you might have missed the moment they announced that the display stand and VESA mount would cost $1,200 — and the crowd went absolutely silent.
GOT $13,000 FOR A NEW MAC PRO?
ICYMI: Just The Good Stuff From Apple's WWDC Keynote
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The 2019 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote saw the reveal of iOS 13, macOS Catalina, iPadOS — and a stupendously powerful (and expensive) new Mac Pro.
RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE
NOT AT ALL LIKE NEW ENGLISH
This Is What Old English May Have Actually Sounded Like
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A language lover does an uncanny job pretending to be an Anglo-Saxon circa 800 AD.
IN THE NEWS
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