Articles by Ben Dooley

December 3, 2009

You Autocomplete Me 2

If Carl Jung had lived to see Google Search, he might have had a thing or two to say about how its auto suggest function is revealing the Internet’s collective unconscious.

November 6, 2009

Coming to a theater near Tokyo 0

First it was Pebble Beach, and now they want our movies. After years of bad Hollywood remakes of good Japanese movies, turnabout is fair play.

November 5, 2009

Paper or Plastic? 0

Paper or plastic? Hey, you with the Kindle! Stop looking so smug… E-books aren’t as green as you think.

November 5, 2009

The Glenn Beck book club? 0

Move over, Oprah. Glenn Beck‘s got something he wants you to read…

November 4, 2009

Obama’s Brother Publishes a Novel 2

The book draws extensively on Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo’s life in Kenya and China and prominently features an account of his relationship with the President’s father.

October 30, 2009

Staff Pick: House of Leaves on Halloween 8

Mark Z. Danielewski paints the page like a canvas, exploiting both knife-sharp prose, painfully clever post-modernist narrative devices, and typographical tricks to draw the reader into his tale of horror.