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• Ben Greenman: New releases from Harper Simon and Richmond Fontaine.

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• Google Buzz gets security fix

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• Father of Google Apps: How Google entered the cloud

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• Google aims to speed up DNS requests

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• Ken Solomon @ Bienvenu

Web surfing becomes a game of exquisite corpse in Solomon’s twenty-four-foot-long installation of eight framed watercolors, each of which reproduces a grid of images generated by Google. Things kick off, fittingly, with a search for “begin,” which yields, among other pictures, a portrait of the former Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin. Its caption reads “of...

• Google announces Public DNS

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• Ben Greenman: Paul Simon’s “So Beautiful or So What.”

paragraph class="noindent">Paul Simon spent the eighties venturing eventfully into African and South American music, but on his twelfth album, “So Beautiful or So What” (Concord), his excursions are more temporal. The lead single, “Getting Ready for Christmas Day,” partly about a soldier in Iraq . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Simon Rich: Who Is Alex Trebek?

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• Simon Rich: “Center of the Universe.”

On the first day, God created the heavens and the earth. “Let there be light,” He said, and there was light. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening—the first night. On the second day, God separated the oceans from the sky. &#8220 . . ....

• Simon Rich: “Center of the Universe.”

On the first day, God created the heavens and the earth. “Let there be light,” He said, and there was light. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening—the first night. On the second day, God separated the oceans from the sky. &#8220 . . ....

• Simon Rich: “Center of the Universe.”

On the first day, God created the heavens and the earth. “Let there be light,” He said, and there was light. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening—the first night. On the second day, God separated the oceans from the sky. &#8220 . . ....

• John Seabrook: Will Robert Kyncl and YouTube revolutionize television?

On a rainy night in late November, Robert Kyncl was in Google’s New York City offices, on Ninth Avenue, whiteboarding the future of TV. Kyncl holds a senior position at YouTube, which Google owns. He is the architect of the single largest cultural transformation in YouTube’s . . ....

• Simon Rich: “Trade.”

Josh always knew, on some level, that it was possible for him to get traded. He’d seen it happen to dozens of guys over the years, including some of his closest friends. It was part of the game. Still, he had never been traded himself, and he was . . ....

• Simon Rich: “Trade.”

Josh always knew, on some level, that it was possible for him to get traded. He’d seen it happen to dozens of guys over the years, including some of his closest friends. It was part of the game. Still, he had never been traded himself, and he was . . ....

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• John Lahr: Neil Simon’s comic empire.

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• Ben McGrath: A historian fact-checks “Boardwalk Empire.”

In Atlantic City last summer, Bryant Simon, a Temple University history professor, was ticketed for running a red light—on foot. “I think you can get a ticket for anything here,” he said the other day. “This is notoriously a shakedown town.” Simon, who grew . . ....

• Google: Firms can get rid of Office in a year

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• Richard Brody: Alexander Kluge’s “Yesterday Girl,” and Werner Schroeter’s “Palermo or Wolfsburg.”

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• Dave Hanson: “New App on the Kindle 2Go.”

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