February 2012
1 post
January 2012
3 posts
“Ergonomics are not important and very important. I think Ergonomics effects what...”
– [more [see previous]]
Workspace and Environment: The Dillinger Escape Plan | Trash_Audio
“The creative process, for the most part is, 90% me and whatever drummer we have...”
– That actually sounds like a pretty good lifestyle to me — or top 5 lifestyles, at least.
The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman – “Drugs Are Not Part Of Our Creative Process”
December 2011
3 posts
“The point, he insisted, was not to argue with those in power. It was not even...”
– Tony Judt on Vaclav Havel — from Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945
“Vaclav Havel, then working as a marginal playwright and poet in a society and...”
– Christopher Hitchens — excerpt from Letters to a Young Contrarian
Read the whole excerpt (if you don’t have time for the whole book).
November 2011
6 posts
3 tags
“I don’t begin a novel with a shopping list—the novel becomes my shopping list as...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson
October 2011
4 posts
“I spent nearly four years in Iraq, the nightmare years, and for me the most...”
– Dexter Filkins: What’s Left In Iraq
dailyidioms:
uterine replicator, Turkish delight doughnut, Galapagan isolation, ghost craters, empathy system, nonconsensual collaboration.
September 2011
3 posts
“Drug fatalities more than doubled among teens and young adults between 2000 and...”
– Eye-opening stuff.
Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S.
1 tag
Some music I dig (secretly (now-not-so-secretly)).
I spent the better part of the last two days trying to figure out which song that reminded me of…
Ok so I need to listen to more UK garage so that isn’t my first point of reference.
And of course I didn’t overlook—
“I would argue that the differences are so great that Mises and Hayek don’t...”
– Fishing for fascists: Libertarianism and democracy | The Economist
August 2011
2 posts
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that all people who are considered...”
– ?uestlove: 15 Years
July 2011
8 posts
1 tag
Richie Allen Chaser
americanmccarver:
I’m sorry, I can’t stand to look at the site and see Derek Jeter’s smug face up there. So here’s a photo of Richie Allen having a smoke in the dugout. And an accompanying piece from the excellent Paul Lukas’ UniWatch.
photo: Charles Bonnay/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive...”
– Thomas Jefferson — sure knew how to use a word or two.
via The ‘intellectual property’ oxymoron
(ht @pkedrosky)
“A writing camp is like a reality show, where top chefs who have never met are...”
– More at How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song? : Planet Money : NPR
June 2011
7 posts
“The big message is that we’re not the pinnacle of the tree, the only...”
– The Intelligence of Beasts - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Then I read Hume’s Enquiry, this wonderful, humane book saying that nobody has...”
– Paul Krugman on Inspiration for a Liberal Economist | FiveBooks | The Browser
“What is great about Alec Baldwin, and incidentally what is great about Twitter,...”
– Alec Baldwin: Social networking master - Grantland
An insightful, unpredictable and entertaining sequence of mostly related sentences.
“When Rosa Parks, a tailor’s assistant, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a...”
– Page’s protest sets poor precedent
I would add, she wasn’t just entitled to vote, but also to run in the election, to share her views that way — where she’d have an opportunity to listen and consult with a broader range of Canadian voters, to have a dialog about ways to reconcile...
“While traditional mail- and document-centric interaction will certainly remain...”
– Amen.
Looking toward the future by way of Socialcast’s Acquisition By VMware
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May 2011
24 posts
“This new structure changes not only the skills but likely the character of the...”
– The article as luxury or byproduct « BuzzMachine
Read Jarvis’s whole post — with now-familiar examples the kind of reporter he’s talking about, e.g. Andy Carvin & Brian Stetler.
“Tyler Cowen sits with a cranberry juice and a pile of books he no longer intends...”
– Someone profiles him once a year or so. Most of it’s the same but I always enjoy it.
Tyler Cowen, America’s Hottest Economist
“Perhaps, in some way, the recent rise of the dash—and this “trend”...”
– Em dashes—why writers should use them more sparingly. - By Noreen Malone - Slate Magazine
I’ve been a prolific user of the em dash at times but not as much lately.
I very rarely use it when I’m writing on behalf of someone else. I like it more as a reflection of how I think — somewhat...
“If tech talk/geek culture dominated the anonymous, text-heavy newsgroups and...”
– Both the short and long of it: How sportswriting is taking over the web through innovation and adaptation by Tim Carmody at NiemanLab
“Do you have any advice?” Parker asked Jobs. “Well, just one thing,” said Jobs....”
– Steve Jobs: Get Rid of the Crappy Stuff by Carmine Gallo at Forbes.com.
“There’s a point at which new product development can destroy more value than it...”
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Via thoughtyoushouldseethis
Graham Button looks at product overload in Over-Branding Kills Profits and Scares Off Consumers. Too many brands, he argues, have gone down the road of coming up with new products for the sake of it rather than in the name of solving a problem or serving a need....
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On reading long novels →
scribnerbooks:
“I can’t say that I enjoyed every minute of it, or even that I enjoyed all that much of it at all, but I can say that by the time I got to the end of it I was glad to have read it. Not just glad that I had finally finished it, but that I had started it and seen it through. I felt as though I had been through something major, as though I had not merely experienced something...
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Mixtape: Rainy Day, circa 2001
Mellow sort of indie songwriter- & sampler-driven tracks, almost all from 2001. Seems to have a lot of cello in there too, coincidentally or not.
I’ve written some background on a lot of these picks under the heading favourite rainy day albums of the 00s. Figured since it’s gonna be rainy all week I could share some of these again. And I’m feeling kind of nostalgic for...
“Whatever the subject, a real critic is a cultural critic, always: if your...”
– Reading Clive James’s writing about David Thomson’s writing about movies will be the highlight of my Sunday.
Hollywood: A Love Story - Magazine - The Atlantic
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
RJD2 (14)
Fleet Foxes (12)
Digable Planets (11)
Yeasayer (9)
Neil Young (9)
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