Greg T. Spielberg / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Gizmodo taps illustrators to give stories more punch, pop, pow! — When Gizmodo editorial director Brian Lam was planning for this week’s coverage of the Verizon iPhone, he didn’t think in words. He visualized it entirely in images, daydreaming about how much more emotive pictures and sounds …
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Steve Jobs Gets His Head Shaved And Other Youthful Stories [Early Playboy Interview] — I’ve read a lot of Steve Jobs interviews but until now I’d not seen this 1985 interview from Playboy. — It catches Steve Jobs at age 29, one year after the Macintosh was launched.
ValidSoft is pushing forward with software it says banks can use to avoid unnecessarily blocking credit card transactions, an occasional frustration for travelers outside of their home country. A computer security researcher has launched a project …
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As we close in on “All Hallows Eve” and the boundary between the living and the deceased dissolves, spine-tingling stories abound — and sometimes the place where they’re told is even scarier than the stories themselves. Ripe with ghostly …