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New York Magazine — Books, he says, “were like Internet stocks, getting enormous advances without demonstrating any moneymaking whatsoever.”
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Climbing News by the Community
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via B^2 :: "Deeb, who said he was trying to make safer surface coatings for food containers, insists that the chemicals he was using were less hazardous than common cleaners and household chemicals. He questions why his hobby was seen as more dangerous than, for example, a hunter with a gun collection, or a person using a propane grill. ¶ “The more I tried to explain, the more they thought I was a lunatic,” Deeb said, questioning why he should need permits to tinker in his basement." — (see also: that's why people like steampunk lit)
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via The New Yorker (via DF)
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at Newsweek (via John)
