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You see, the world has no use for single functioning devices anymore; they’re boring,  and not even worth their price anymore since they only do one thing and nothing else (having games like parachute and music quiz don’t count).  Today, it’s all about integration, innovation, inflation and…uhh…gesticulation!  We want to hold a personal computer or a Mac in the palm of our hand.  We love being able to surf for porn, text our mother’s and listen to the Styx all at once while riding the subway.  The world is getting faster, more efficient, and so we demand immediate gratification more and more.  So, for all you single functioning devices, take this is an ultimatum to either evolve into a multifunctioning piece of sexy hardware or die.

Ever since the introduction of the iPhone, it seems that Apple has “passed its mantle of innovation” to its latest creation, “…and that’s where the action’s going to be from now on–multifunction devices with interesting new interfaces.”

The same trend can also be seen in other electronic devices.  Take a look at the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. Not only can you play games, but you can also watch movies or television shows, surf the internet, listen to music, etc.  Something tells me that this is all just the beginning, and that the future is “painted with colors that my ancient eyes cannot see.”  I remember the Wall.E, when mankind is reduced to indolent fat turds who never even bother standing up, since they all have “multifunctioning” chairs.  And so I can’t help but think that it’s life imitating art. 

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More news about Tim Burton’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic Alice in Wonderland, Disney studios have just announced that Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway will be included in the film.

The lord of all that is gothic, none other than Tim Burton, is working with Walt Disney Pictures to recreate the age-old story of a young girl who falls down a rabbit hole and finds herself on an acid trip–but seriously, in a magical fantasy world where nothing seems to make sense.  The said director is supposedly combining live action with performance-capture technology for this particular movie.

Recently, he has hired the talents of Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries, Brokeback Mountain) and Helena Bonham Carter who has been in almost every Burton movie—gee, I wonder why?  The perky and endearing Hathaway will be playing the benevolent White Queen who has been banished and exiled by her evil sister, the Red Queen played by Carter.  From the looks of this piece of news, it appears that Burton will be crafting the story with the original book close at hand, unlike the butchered, watered-down and delusionally innocent Disney version from some years back.

Other cast members include Mia Wasikowska, who will be playing Alice, and Johnny Depp, as the infamous Mad Hatter.  Depp has also been in almost every Burton movie—hmmm…I’M CERTAINLY WONDERING WHY?! He’s quite a beautiful man after all, isn’t he Tim?

The movie is scheduled to release March 5, 2010.

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Starting with the PS4 (Playstation 4), reports from a Japanese website, PC Watch, claim that Sony is already in the developmental stage for the PS4.  Even though Sony has been boasting about the Playstation 3’s expected ten-year lifespan, they’re looking to be either cutting that lifespan short, or planning to release the new console while the former one is (technically) during its mid-life—since the report says that Sony is planning to release the PS4 sometime in 2011.

Apparently, the new console will be using the same architectural base as its older brother, as Sony is allegedly eyeing the same Cell Broadband Engine as the one found in the PS3.  The rest is all technical jargon, so you can read a more comprehensive article here.  But, in stating the obvious, the PS4 will definitely be more powerful than the PS3.

As for the Wii HD, WhatTheyPlay.com reported they’ve heard from “multiple sources” that Nintendo are already showing “early presentations” of the new console.  Again, the year 2011 pops up in the discussion.  As the name implies, the new Wii will be HD capable and is said to be the “true next generation” console produced by Nintendo.  This move will mark the company’s first step in the real next generation race, seeing that the Wii was just a slightly tweaked Gamecube which had motion sensing controllers.  On the other hand, the Wii HD is said to be what the Gameboy Advanced was to the original Gameboy.

But just because Nintendo is going all out in hardware improvements (tripling their R&D funding since 2006 should be proof enough) doesn’t mean they’re selling out and scrapping their unique philosophy when it comes to making games: “[technological] power isn’t everything.  Too many powerful consoles can’t coexist. It’s like having only ferocious dinosaurs. They might fight and hasten their own extinction.”–that’s so Zen, and I mean it in a good way.  Reports also suggest that Nintendo will be more preoccupied with coming out with a new system that puts more emphasis on what the player interacts with rather than console itself.  So we should expect more innovations than just a long list of specs containing words that most of us wouldn’t know what the hell we’re reading.

That’s pretty much it for now.  Credit to Kotaku.com for providing the pictures.

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Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style.

These revelations tell us as readers what sort of person it is with whom we are spending time. Does the writer sound ignorant or informed, stupid or bright, crooked or honest, humorless or playful– ? And on and on.

Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you’re writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead — or, worse, they will stop reading you.

The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not. Don’t you yourself like or dislike writers mainly for what they choose to show you or make you think about? Did you ever admire an emptyheaded writer for his or her mastery of the language? No.

So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

1. Find a subject you care about

Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way — although I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about something. A petition to the mayor about a pothole in front of your house or a love letter to the girl next door will do.

2. Do not ramble, though

I won’t ramble on about that.

3. Keep it simple

As for your use of language: Remember that two great masters of language, William Shakespeare and James Joyce, wrote sentences which were almost childlike when their subjects were most profound. “To be or not to be?” asks Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The longest word is three letters long. Joyce, when he was frisky, could put together a sentence as intricate and as glittering as a necklace for Cleopatra, but my favorite sentence in his short story “Eveline” is this one: “She was tired.” At that point in the story, no other words could break the heart of a reader as those three words do.

Simplicity of language is not only reputable, but perhaps even sacred. The Bible opens with a sentence well within the writing skills of a lively fourteen-year-old: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

4. Have guts to cut

It may be that you, too, are capable of making necklaces for Cleopatra, so to speak. But your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.

5. Sound like yourself

The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was Conrad’s third language, and much that seems piquant in his use of English was no doubt colored by his first language, which was Polish. And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench.

In some of the more remote hollows of Appalachia, children still grow up hearing songs and locutions of Elizabethan times. Yes, and many Americans grow up hearing a language other than English, or an English dialect a majority of Americans cannot understand.

All these varieties of speech are beautiful, just as the varieties of butterflies are beautiful. No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens to not be standard English, and if it shows itself when your write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue.

I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound most like a person from Indianapolis, which is what I am. What alternatives do I have? The one most vehemently recommended by teachers has no doubt been pressed on you, as well: to write like cultivated Englishmen of a century or more ago.

6. Say what you mean

I used to be exasperated by such teachers, but am no more. I understand now that all those antique essays and stories with which I was to compare my own work were not magnificent for their datedness or foreignness, but for saying precisely what their authors meant them to say. My teachers wished me to write accurately, always selecting the most effective words, and relating the words to one another unambiguously, rigidly, like parts of a machine. The teachers did not want to turn me into an Englishman after all. They hoped that I would become understandable — and therefore understood. And there went my dream of doing with words what Pablo Picasso did with paint or what any number of jazz idols did with music. If I broke all the rules of punctuation, had words mean whatever I wanted them to mean, and strung them together higgledy-piggledy, I would simply not be understood. So you, too, had better avoid Picasso-style or jazz-style writing, if you have something worth saying and wish to be understood.

Readers want our pages to look very much like pages they have seen before. Why? This is because they themselves have a tough job to do, and they need all the help they can get from us.

7. Pity the readers

They have to identify thousands of little marks on paper, and make sense of them immediately. They have to read, an art so difficult that most people don’t really master it even after having studied it all through grade school and high school — twelve long years.

So this discussion must finally acknowledge that our stylistic options as writers are neither numerous nor glamorous, since our readers are bound to be such imperfect artists. Our audience requires us to be sympathetic and patient readers, ever willing to simplify and clarify — whereas we would rather soar high above the crowd, singing like nightingales.

That is the bad news. The good news is that we Americans are governed under a unique Constitution, which allows us to write whatever we please without fear of punishment. So the most meaningful aspect of our styles, which is what we choose to write about, is utterly unlimited.

8. For really detailed advice

For a discussion of literary style in a narrower sense, in a more technical sense, I recommend to your attention The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White. E.B. White is, of course, one of the most admirable literary stylists this country has so far produced.

You should realize, too, that no one would care how well or badly Mr. White expressed himself, if he did not have perfectly enchanting things to say.

In Sum:

1. Find a subject you care about

2. Do not ramble, though

3. Keep it simple

4. Have guts to cut

5. Sound like yourself

6. Say what you mean

7. Pity the readers

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