January 2012
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December 2011
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“A late sixties Gulf Air card portrays a well-tailored Marvel Comics–style man,...”
– Avi Steinberg – The Unlikely Event from Paris Review. Highly recommended.
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The Saddest Book Ever Written →
“Buy this book, or don’t, I don’t care anymore.”
November 2011
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“This current incarnation of Republicanism is so crude, so un-American, so...”
– Andrew Sullivan, “Why Huntsman And Paul Matter”
The fact that these unctuous, idiotic, craven hypocrites haven’t been run off the stage in utter shame sickens me.
October 2011
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“The locus of the infantilist aesthetic seemed to be Steve Jobs himself, if his...”
– From “Apple’s aesthetic dichotomy,” James Higgs/Made by Many.
There is a certain garish sentimentality to the design of these applications. James Higgs apparently feels the same glaring dissonance I feel when i look at this stuff: the iPad or iPhone is so damn elegant it makes...
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The Partisan and the Political :: Peter Frase →
Interesting long read on the difference between ideology and partisanship, the OWS protests in the modern American political sphere, and what if anything the remnants of the dead left can do with them.
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September 2011
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alt.sex.[_________] was the... →
melissa:
For real.
But really, I think reddit is the usenet of the web2.0 era.
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“I asked myself, ‘Is it going to prevent me from getting out of here? Is...”
– Maj. Rhonda Cornum, as quoted in Sullivan
Her topic is something particularly unpleasant but her attitude is applicable to a lot of things in life.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal →
Someday….
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“They enthusiastically applaud government executions. And they’re certain...”
– The Limited Government, Pro-Life Party | The Agitator (via jeffmiller)
August 2011
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July 2011
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I don't think I understand the future.
FoReIgN PoLicY thEOry: Carl Prine interviews Courtney Messerschmidt, a 20-year-old UGA student who managed to get her blog read by militaries around the world by combining sharp foreign policy analysis with hot chicks
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June 2011
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15 New Words From the 1927 Webster's International... →
Words + nineteen-teens & twenties = awesome.
May 2011
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April 2011
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Crashingly Beautiful: Poetry →
crashinglybeautiful:
“When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.”
—Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting In Time “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public…
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The Management Myth - By Matthew Stewart →
Mayo’s work sheds light on the dark side of the “humanist” tradition in management theory. There is something undeniably creepy about a clipboard-bearing man hovering around a group of factory women, flicking the lights on and off and dishing out candy bars. All of that humanity—as anyone in my old firm could have told you—was just a more subtle form of bureaucratic control. It was a way of...
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"Keep Portland Weird"
Things I won’t miss about Portland:
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“Keep Portland Weird” is done, and they failed. Portland used to be genuinely bizarre. Klingon Karaoke in a bar called Bodacious Classics? Lumberjack gangs running around chopping down telephone poles? Homeless people carrying katanas for protection? That was all weird. Portland, OR in 2010 is mildly unusual.
Possibly the...
March 2011
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What the Luddites Really Fought Against →
agirlsaidtotheuniverse:
By Richard Conniff
Smithsonian magazine, March 2011
Getting past the myth and seeing their protest more clearly is a reminder that it’s possible to live well with technology—but only if we continually question the ways it shapes our lives. It’s about small things, like now and then cutting the cord, shutting down the smartphone and going out for a walk. But it needs...
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“Now I would like to speak directly to my male readers who feel unjustly treated...”
– Scott Adams Blog: Men’s Rights (via solipsism)
February 2011
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Apple's Three Laws of Developers
yourhead:
A developer may not injure Apple or, through inaction, allow Apple to come to harm.
A developer must obey any orders given to it by Apple, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A developer must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
— I. Developer
Hilarity hijinks: *Escape from...
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“And stop arguing with me with this Mac vs. PC bullshit. I don’t care if...”
– zjz on reddit: I fucking love my ipad.
I love the sentiment, and I also laughed heartily at the image of “VNCing to a Macbook Air stored in your anal cavity” because, hey, that’s fucking weird.
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“Here’s a true story: I’m writing this from a Bavarian castle right now while my...”
– Read the epic (I do not use that word lightly) advice article, “4-Hour Dentist” from The Bygone Bureau to find out the answer.
Hint: The laws of science are for victims.
(h/t: kungfugrippe.)
January 2011
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Herman Melville Likes Your Beard
towirr:
Or as he calls them, in order, in two chapters of White Jacket:
beards
the crop
suburbs of the chin
homeward-bounders
fly-brushes
long, trailing moss hanging from the bough of some aged oak
love-curls
Winnebago locks
carroty bunches
rebellious bristles
redundant mops
yellow bamboos
long whiskers
thrice-noble beards
plantations of hair
whiskerandoes
nodding harvests
viny...
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“A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has...”
– The first of Five Emotions Invented By The Internet described by Leigh Alexander.
Brilliant. Read ‘em all.
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“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via hauswittgenstein)
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“Luckily for America, I am not a terrorist, I did not kill the pilots, and I did...”
– Jeffrey Goldberg, Private Plane, Public Menace
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Sentient City Survival Kit →
A research blog by Mark Shepard documenting the development of a set of artifacts for survival in the near-future sentient city.
This blog/site discusses methods of keeping your stuff private/secure in a always-online, always-surveilled urban environment — a.k.a. a “sentient city.”
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December 2010
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