Fixing a Hole

Nothing to the Party True Confessions of a New Media Whore PAUL CARR This edition is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNoncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. You are free to distribute any or all of the (unmodified) text for non-commercial use, providing you credit http://www.paulcarr.com Full license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us First published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson london ‘I have a theory that the truth is never told during

Does IT Matter? THE SHALLOWS What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains NICHOLAS CARR W. W. NORTON & COMPANY New York * London Copyright © 2010 by Nicholas Carr All rights reserved “The writing ball is a thing like me…” from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich A. Kittler, translated by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young and Michael Wutz. Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University for translation; © 1986 by Brinkmann and Bose. All rights reserved. Used

GUY DE MAUPASSANT Pierre & Jean TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY CLARA DELL WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY THE EARL OF CREWE A FRONTISPIECE AND NUMEROUS OTHER PORTRAITS WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY OCTAVE UZANNE P. F. COLLIER cV SON NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, I9O2 BY D. APPCETON fc COMPANY GUY DE MAUPASSANT In the long portrait-gallery of men of letters there are many figures, including some of the most famous, which in one aspect, at any rate, have

depicted as a very quiet spinster, growing up in a small country town with her father as rector of a simple country church. Her novels are often considered to focus only on the lives of a few individuals in a few families living, for the most part, in rather confined and conservative country towns. The first published full-length biography of Jane Austen contributed greatly to the establishment of this view of her life and her novels. Her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh published A Memoir of Jane

Knight has been an avid gamer since the days of the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64. His first foray into the gaming industry came in 1995, as a scenario designer for SSI’s WWII strategy game Steel Panthers. As online gaming communities sprung up across the Web, David lent his enthusiasm and design skills to many fan sites. In 1998, he co-founded and co-hosted Game Waves, a weekly webcast featuring industry news and game reviews. David’s involvement with Prima Games began in the late 90s. Since then, he’s

. . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Some properties of standard spaces . 2.4 Simple standard spaces . . . . . . . . 2.5 Metric Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6 Extension in Standard Spaces . . . . 2.7 The Kolmogorov Extension Theorem 2.8 Extension Without a Basis . . . . . vii ix 1 1 1 6 8 13 19 21 21 22 26 29 31 36 37 38 45 45 48 54 61 61 61 64 67 77 80 87 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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