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Nathan Edwards

Nathan Edwards

Senior Reviews Editor

Nathan Edwards is The Verge's Senior Reviews Editor. He has been writing and editing reviews of computer hardware and consumer tech since 2007, including seven years at Wirecutter and five at MaximumPC. He enjoys mechanical keyboards, cargo bikes, making his life more complicated while trying to make it less complicated, and developing new hyperfixations. He lives in the Houston area. His French is terrible, but his Dutch is worse.

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Inside the Internet Archive.

At Wired, Kate Knibbs visits the Internet Archive’s San Francisco headquarters and speaks with its founder, Brewster Kahle, about the Archive’s past, present, and its uncertain future, as it faces copyright lawsuits from print and music publishers.

Go read this, and then listen to Mark Graham, director of the Archive’s Wayback Machine, on Decoder earlier this month.


“Zuck or nothing.”

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg is wearing a shirt that says “Zuck or nothing” in Latin. Still with the Roman emperor thing, then. At least he left the chain at home.


Zuck wearing a black on black shirt that reads “Aut Zuck aut nihil”
Nerd.
Screenshot: Meta
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Il faut jouer Sisyphe heureux.

At Remap, Patrick Klepek writes about The Game of Sisyphus, which is exactly what it sounds like.


The Meditative Power of Irritation

[Patrick Klepek - Remap]

Ful wel kan ye songes make with thise medieval sampler from Teenage Engineering.

The EP-1320 “instrumentalis electronicum” is preloaded with Dark Ages instruments and effects, including the hurdy gurdy, gittern, tambour, plus swordfights and “two separate witches.”

Yes, it’s an even-less-scrutable version of the EP-133 sampler I couldn’t make hide nor hair of, but sore tempted am I to drop $299 and annoy the hell out of my D&D group.


The Teenage Engineering EP-1320 sampler, a medieval-themed electronic instrument.
Photo: Teenage Engineering