Ah, nothing like a comforting spray of clam chowder. [via blankenship]
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Monthly Archives: January 2007
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Ellen Lupton and her students wrote a little handbook all about indie publishing.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Leah Peterson is asking you to mail her things to put in her next painting. Yes, you. Look at her other paintings.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The BBC has a four-part podcast series on our increasingly noisy world.
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
A guy won a trip to Space… and then had to cancel because the IRS wants $25,000 in taxes for the winnings. [via mises]
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Michael Pollan has an extensive article on what to eat and why. [via justin blanton]
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Edward Stringham has compiled a new anthology, Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice. Folks, that’s 700 pages of radical libertarian goodness:
Anarchy and the Law assembles for the first time in one volume the most important classic and contemporary studies exploring and debating non-state legal and political systems, especially involving the tradition of […]
≡Letter to a Christian Nation (review: 3.5/5)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Atheism seems to have caught a little buzz in recent years, I’m not sure how. There was that unfortunate survey, and books by Dawkins and others made a little splash, and there’s the cover story on a recent issue of Wired magazine, in particular. Sam Harris’ extended essay, Letter to a Christian Nation, joins the […]
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The Mises Institute published a video called Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve. Must see.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Our progress knows no bounds. First, caffeinated doughnuts, and now a personal doughnut maker, kind of like a Foreman grill.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Steven Pinker writes about the mystery of consciousness—the biology of the soul and the moral implications of when we finally find it. The two big challenges: the Easy Problem, distinguishing the brain’s participation in conscious and unconscious thoughts and how they evolved, and the Hard Problem, explaining first-person subjective experience as neural activity.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Here’s an old interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. about his escape from Scientology. The Stephen Colbert also offers a balanced perspective on the Daily Show.
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The Galileo Project at Rice University has some awesome primary sources about everyone’s favorite astronomer. They’ve got his collection of sunspot drawings from the sumer of 1613, as well as composite movies of those. I’m trying to imagine how he felt when he first observed them. I can totally see him making little flip books […]
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Monday, January 29, 2007
Umberto Eco’s 1994 essay on the Future of the Book.
Plato was expressing a fear that still survived in his day. Thinking is an internal affair; the real thinker would not allow books to think instead of him. Nowadays, nobody shares these fears, for two very simple reasons. First of all, we know that books are […]
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Monday, January 29, 2007
This is a pretty cool collection of electronic literature/ hypertext fiction/ web poetry or whatever you want to call it.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
In the midst of updating the RSS feeds for Kottke.org, Jason realizes that he has delivered 58 gigabytes of RSS this month. Yes, that is crazy.
≡50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know (review: 3/5)
Monday, January 29, 2007
John Bridges and Bryan Curtis offer a succinct guidebook targeted towards the young and clueless: 50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know: What to Do, When to Do It, and Why. It’s certainly a tidy little volume, with 200 pages of guidelines in an almost-pocketable 5×8 inch format. It covers the basics from saying “please” […]
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Monday, January 29, 2007
The New York Times has a good profile of comics writers Robert and Aline Crumb.
≡The God Delusion (review: dnf)
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Comprehensive, but a bit scatterbrained. I made it about 1/3 of the way through.
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
I just noticed that the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has a snazzy new website. It’s about twelve times better than the old one.
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
The photos in 50 people see are images made from combining 50 photos with the same Flickr tag. Here’s the mashup of 50 photos tagged with eye, soup, and each of the four seasons.
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Concert pianist Byron Janis share some interesting anecdotes about his struggles with acoustics: “music’s most unpredictable partner.”
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Here’s a great essay exploring the connections between comics, games, and world-building.
Perhaps when we find ourselves disturbed or bewildered by the popularity of a new genre or medium, it’s precisely by giving it that “serious consideration” that we will begin to get to grips with what it is and how it works. But how do […]
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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Scanned images from Astrology: A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences, by Ebenezer Sibly, 1806.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Lisa Carver on the current batch of chick lit: I’d like to take all these books, pile them up and throw gasoline and a lit match onto them. [via bookslut]
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Friday, January 26, 2007
“Open most days about 9 or 10. Occasionally as early as 7. But some days as late as 12 or 1.”
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Friday, January 26, 2007
“With the deceptive, exciting, children-friendly packaging of witchcraft in the Harry Potter series, our youth today view witchcraft not only as good and fun, but also as harmless fantasy.” Myth versus truth in the Harry Potter case–at least she’s persistent. [via librarycrunch]
≡Emory University Water Tower 1933-2007
Friday, January 26, 2007
They’ve decided to take it down this year, after decades of faithful service. It’s just getting too old to be safe. What a downer.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Here’s some clever comment spam, the bastards:
I got the same tramadol attack… well, not the same, because it was only about 20 comments instead of 90, and i t have any filtering set up, and I just deleted them one at a time… hmm.. the only thing really in common was that it was about […]
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Austin Kleon has drawn up a cool mind map about comics and information design. Apparently he’ll be working on a thesis on some aspect of the relationship between the two. Cool.
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