An interview with Ridley Scott, who has finally created the be-all, end-all cut of Blade Runner.
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Robert Jordan died a couple weeks ago, which confirmed suspicions that he never was going to wrap up the Wheel of Time saga. But apparently his family knows the details of the 12th and final book, A Memory of Light, so we just might get some posthumous closure one of these days.
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Today’s Layer Tennis match between Kevin Cornell and Shaun Inman has been a ton of fun. Volley 9 just went up, I’d say Kevin has the upper hand. Can’t wait to see how it ends. And I wonder if Kevin and Shaun have had any offline trash-talking in the background…
≡Flannery O’Connor’s androgynous prayer
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Written on the back of a credit card slip:
“Oh universe which is the all of being—reverence to you—your rule be known—and acceded to in darkness as in light. Feed us by the truth of our need. Let us not be deluded that we may transgress or be transgressed upon. Deliver us from the violence of […]
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
“Last year, at dinner with a spitzer of art-history graduates, I suggested—perhaps that is too polite a word—that art-history, and in fact the rest of the humanities, were useless disciplines. (I was bored!)”
≡The letters of Flannery O’Connor and Betty Hester
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Emory University held a Flannery O’Connor celebration this week. The highlight was the first public exhibition of the nearly 300 letters between Flannery O’Connor and Betty Hester, which had been under seal for the past 20 years. Brenda Bynum gave a dramatic reading of O’Connor’s letters. I was late for it, unfortunately, but what I […]
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Bonobos are in the news again. A while back there was a an article about bonobos in the New Yorker. And in the current issue of The Believer, an interview with primatologist Frans de Waal, who is gently criticized in the New Yorker article. It’s a good read, aside from lousy economics in the third […]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
H.L. Mencken: “I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.”
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
We’ve got a new batch of MacArthur Fellows. I’d never heard of most of the fellows, which is great. But I am familiar with two of them. Stuart Dybek bowled me over with his short story that I’ve probably mentioned a million times, If I Vanished. Dawn Upshaw is a very good soprano. She sang […]
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
I’d never heard of Gustave Caillebotte until a couple days ago, when I was floored by The Floor Scrapers. That painting has some wonderful attention to light and texture.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Wikimindmap maps out the subtopics and links in Wikipedia articles. A little slow, but very cool. [via idw]
≡Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (review: dnf)
Monday, September 24, 2007
I love the cover of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories. That’s what made me pick it up, and that’s what I’ll remember best about this book. As for the contents, I pushed beyond the first couple of awkward and disappointing pages, enjoyed myself off and on past the half-way point, and then just didn’t want […]
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
The Guardian has collected some of the great interviews of the 20th century, featuring Fidel Castro, Marilyn Monroe, the Sex Pistols, Malcolm X (pdf), Marlon Brando, and more. Each of the interviews also has an accompanying essay to explain the context and historical significance.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Someone took fantastic notes from an Edward Tufte seminar last month in Chicago.
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Sunday, September 23, 2007
There is a ton of recordings from the 2007 Singularity Summit, featuring all the speakers and panels. [via justin, of course]
≡The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (review: 4/5)
Saturday, September 22, 2007
I have never cared that much about football. Playing can be a blast, but I never watch it and I have only a vague sense of when the college & pro seasons begin. So, I was surprised that I enjoyed this book so much. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game has a couple of […]
≡The Book on the Bookshelf (review: 4/5)
Friday, September 21, 2007
The Book on the Bookshelf is a book about books… and shelving. If that doesn’t catch your attention, then there’s no hope. I’ve lost you already.
It’s a study of part of our relationship with books, the ways we created, studied, shared, and stored them. Henry Petroski touches on developments in bookbinding, the evolution of outward-facing […]
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Friday, September 21, 2007
Meredith Gran, creator of the Octopus Pie webcomic, has a time-lapse video of her cartooning process. [via crushing krisis]
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Over in Athens, Georgia you can find the Tree That Owns Itself [via paul armstrong]. See also the list of famous trees.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Joe Clark has written an impressive, in-depth article that explores of the (mis)use of typography in the Toronto subway system.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
A cool project from the mind of Jen Bekman: 20×200 is “a place to buy editioned prints and photos at ridiculously affordable prices.”
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Brian Dettmer dissects books, as you can see in this gallery and another gallery. Pretty cool work. The technique is all scalpels and tweezers, only removing and digging deeper, never re-arranging. [via deeplinking]
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Todd Klein has written a 5-part series on the evolution of the Batman logo: one two three four five. [via kottke]
≡The 4 Hour Workweek (review: 3/5)
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Good book. I posted a while ago about my initial doubts and then how excited I became about this book as I began to read it. It all turned out fairly well, though I think the glow is gone.
Despite the hokey title, 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich seems to […]
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
I like these etymology drawings—personal, visual explorations of where the words came from. I think idiom is my favorite.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Layer Tennis is coming: “Two artists (or two small teams of artists) will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a “volley” and then we post that to the site. A third participant, a writer, provides play-by-play commentary on the action, […]
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Monday, September 17, 2007
For some reason I got to thinking about one of my favorite Seinfeld dialogues this morning. From the Male Unbonding episode:
ELAINE: Come on, let’s go do something. I don’t want to just sit around here.
JERRY: Okay.
ELAINE: Want to go get something to eat?
JERRY: Where do you want to go?
ELAINE: I don’t care, I’m not hungry.
JERRY: […]
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Friday, September 14, 2007
A pretty good interview with Seth Godin. “The thing is, the stuff that’s for everybody is already sold to everybody. So you can’t win by being more average than average, because that slot’s taken.”
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Friday, September 14, 2007
You can now buy the Personal MBA Recommended Reading List in one motherlode from Amazon.
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
Ian Belcher writes about a week at a colonic spa, with a daily regimen of herbal pills and self-administered enemas. [via tim walker]
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
I was doing a little reading on William Carlos Williams and stumbled on the PennSound archives. They feature a page full of recordings from Williams’ poetry readings, as well as many other writers. I don’t claim to recognize more than a handful of the names, but they’ve got volume. At the very least, their manifesto […]
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