Showing posts with label The Awl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Awl. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2011

Does Brooklyn hate technology?

An interesting article in The Awl today. The author's logic seems intuitively correct—that Brooklyn, with it's impossibly hip Neo-Luddism would eschew the digital reader—but it doesn't quite jive with my own observations around the borough. I fully support  the removal of dust-jackets, though—particularly the glossy bestseller-type ones. It's singularly unpleasant to spend the morning commute with 6x9 inches of something as garishly popular as Freedom (previously posted abouthovering right in your face.