Tag: Stephen Fry
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FryPaper: an interview with the man behind Stephen Fry’s iPad app
Following my post about using the iPad recently, I’ve spent some time using more content-focused apps. As I mentioned before, the iPad has turned out to be a great device for consuming, reading, and just experiencing media. This has obvious benefits for video, and many of the examples I’ve seen have made use of multimedia…
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Defensive Pre-tension
I was listening to one of Stephen Fry‘s ‘podgrams’ – “Wallpaper” – in which he briefly touched on the idea that the English tend to classify something as pretentious if they don’t understand it. It’s a form of defense of tradition or perspective. Intelligence or flamboyance are marked as a personality flaw; people exhibiting uncomfortable…