October 2008
80 posts
When did the part and parcel of learned exchange become talking about Wagamama locations around the world? Disgusting.
Harry Potter fails to cast spell over Professor... →
Just goes to show that evangelists of any stripe are irritating and detrimental to the health of the public discourse. It’s only a matter of time before Atheists suppress artistic freedoms.
I'm a writer who hasn't found his thoughts yet.
When a poor writer asks you to evaluate his writing, you must say that “it’s good,” (the comma here is important) to which he must further ask what it is you really think about his prose. Then, you quite simply say, “you haven’t found your voice yet.” This comment works so well because it implies the writer can get better with effort, but permanently releases...
The Current Political Atmosphere.
Do you remember when you were a kid on the playground? You’d be wrestling with someone, you’d pin them, and say: “Okay, I won fair and square. Now, when I let up, you have to promise not to attack me again.”
Your victim forces out some words through clenched teeth: “Okay….okay.”
You let up, and the kid gets up and starts hurling punches at you again. ...
New Statesman - The killing fields →
Kill them all, let god sort them out?
Aphorism #2
Sartre’s “Nausea”: the result of smoking cigarettes too quickly and too often. Existentialism’s association with tobacco and dismal colors seems to be a coincidence that deserves attention. It is a trite one, admittedly; yet it is too canny to ignore as coincidence.
Desperately Seeking Seriousness - NYTimes.com →
Heh. Krugman said ‘meta’.
Scientists Erase Specific Memories in Mice →
Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind
Is This a 'Victory'? - The New York Review of... →
Banksy defies the credit crisis as his canvases... →
Are you kidding me? A repeat of a repeat gets 350 thousand quid? If I do my own with my own local supermarket’s logo, can I expect as much?
Choire, KarenUhOh and the Jack of Hearts
karenuhoh:
Anyway, that was my dream. Godspeed, gentlemen.
Holy fuck, you are fucking crazy.
Radar Economics
When Maer re-launches Radar, I predict that the recession will be over. Until then, hard times ahead….
kdka.com - McCain Campaign Volunteer Confessed To... →
What the hell?
Have you guys noticed how many tumblogs consist entirely in posting weird voyeuristic images of Japanese women?
I was gonna come up with a link for every word but then I got bored. Some of these are actually pretty interesting, by the way.
New York Times Endorsements Through the Ages -... →
Hah, they endorsed Dewey, TWICE.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The centripetal... →
Carr makes some far points in this, but he conflates the conglamoration of the web with a loss in overall diversity. Certainly, Wikipedia is a source of much stupidity online, but the real trend has been making a diversity of knowledge, opinion, and media available through more effecient means of conveyence. Certainly, there has been a loss of more specialized forms of expression (no more civil...
I, WHORE: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT by... →
Stupid bitch.
moving to tumblr →
a tale of two promiscuities...
Communism is set in opposition to capitalism because the tepid compromise of a regulated market isn’t easily comprehended by the simple man. He does not want to understand it either, because a world of oppositions tickles his sensibilities more than one full of confusing contradictions and a plurality of unknown or little-known variables.