April 2010
23 posts
This Week in Tweets →
The Long-Haul Degree – NYTimes.com http://instapaper.com/zH5sk2xE # Fake Philip Roth, John Grisham interviews http://bit.ly/b1ezQ3 # Google Reveals the Future of Printing …
Apr 26th
Digested classic: Crash by JG Ballard Books |... →
My head spun with graphic images of bowels opened by chromium tail-fins and clitorises severed on instrument binnacles etc, etc in the days before I went home. “There's some man watching me,”…
Apr 22nd
Greeks Bearing Gifts →
For all of my classics buffs out there, Cracked.com, of all places has a remarkably concise and clear analysis of Rome’s acquisition of Greek narratives during the Augustan period which is…
Apr 22nd
Rudyard Kipling’s Interview With Mark Twain →
For the Mark Twain Centennial, the Huffington Post put up this handy-dandy embed by Scribd of Mark Twain being interviewed by Rudyard Kipling: (via…
Apr 22nd
Not Quite the Smartest Guys in the Room →
Law students get a diploma in three years. Medical students receive an M.D. in four. But for graduate students in the humanities, it takes, on average, more than nine years to complete a…
Apr 21st
Good Character Development →
I was thinking of this, not surprisingly, while watching FlashForward. I hate to pick on that show, since it’s already getting so much hate, but I was trying to get caught up on the latest episodes…
Apr 21st
The Adventures of Fruity Finn →
(via fruitycuties)
Apr 21st
Mark Twain’s Markup →
In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic – NYTimes.com “Twain could just lacerate a book,” said Kevin Mac Donnell, a collector of rare books in Austin, Tex. who owns…
Apr 21st
How to Draw Time →
The “Temple of Time,” created in 1846 by the pioneering American girls’ educator Emma Willard, draws on the tradition of Renaissance “memory theaters,” mnemonic devices that allowed people…
Apr 20th
Reading in a Digital Age →
The nature of transition, how change works its way through a system, how people acclimate to the new—all these questions. So much of the change is driven by technologies that are elusive if not…
Apr 20th
Delanda on Deleuze & Genetic Algorithms in Art →
(via HTMLGIANT)
Apr 20th
Library of Congress Archiving All Tweets →
So if you think the Library of Congress is “just books,” think of this: The Library has been collecting materials from the web since it began harvesting congressional and presidential campaign…
Apr 15th
THE UNIVERSAL LIBRARY →
George Dyson on Turing and the universal library.
Apr 15th
If Books Were Drugs… →
(via HTML Wings)
Apr 15th
Bloggingheads: Truth in Fiction →
Annalee Newitz, of io9, interviews science fiction author Peter Watts about his thoughts on “timeless” themes in science fiction, the illusion of consciousness, and being beaten…
Apr 15th
Search as Story →
YouTube has a new video tool that lets you turn your search trail into a story and post it on YouTube. Their own example is about Edgar Allen Poe: Search has always been…
Apr 14th
Reflections on Gandhi →
George Orwell discusses the roots of Gandhi’s pacifism.
Apr 14th
Ctrl+Alt+Del →
This is Lawrence Lessig’s new lecture on how f*cked up Congress is. Take a look.
Apr 12th
Significant Objects Launches Fictionaut →
We really like their group description: Does a fictional story add real value to an object? Significant Objects thinks so. The project was founded to explore the relationship between narrative and…
Apr 12th
The Semiotics of Tik Tok →
Here’s the thing, though: while a bunch of folks have thought to combine varying degrees of girl-power positivity with post-punk sulk and snarl, surprisingly few have really taken the Y chromosome…
Apr 2nd
Talk on Publishing Economics at Bloomsbury →
Check outCory Doctorow’s craphound.com for the rest of the story. Cory Doctorow – ebooks from Bloomsbury on Vimeo. Cory Doctorow discusses ebook pricing at…
Apr 2nd
Publish Your Poetry Now →
Hello Poetry now allows you to publish your own books! If only their was some one, aside from your mother, who wanted to buy them. From their blog: Books will be available to buy and read on Hello…
Apr 1st
Really Google Books?!? →
Who wants their books in 3D? Anyone? Bueller? This is not even funny Google, you have all this money, time, and engineers and you come up with 3D books. Why not make the books water-proof as…
Apr 1st