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Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Apple, design, environment, Google, iPhone, Jim Surowiecki, movies, newyorker.com, penguins, technology

As well they should, really. Occasionally people ask me if I’m a “media watchdog.” In this context, no—I gave at the office. Maybe more like a watch Golden Retriever, or possibly Norton Juster’s Tock. Anyway, Google’s new wikiblogthing, Knol, gives users a way to legally use New Yorker cartoons in posts (“authors are allowed to use one cartoon from The New Yorker magazine per article”), and its inventor, Udi Manber, is a major fan of the cartoons in The New Yorker. What’s more, one of the new iPhone ads features the magazine’s website, showing off how nice it looks in that shiny, happy, my-birthday-is-September-12 device. I saw another iPhone demo recently in which March of the Pengins played a prominent role, and how perfect are those penguins and their ice for the iPhone screen? We will ignore, for the time being, the fact that both birds and habitat are likely doomed, because we (meaning I, in this case) were Appleized from too early an age to ever rethink different, so there.

Thanks to everyone who’s written to me about these news items today! By all means, keep sending us any relevant tips you come across; we can’t read our Google Alerts all day, because there are just too freaking many of them, and besides, the wisdom of crowds!

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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.

Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.

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Other writing by Emily Gordon

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Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
Inquiry: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)