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February 4th, 2008 / Tags: politics / TrackbackFlickr: Photos from The Library of Congress. Brilliant. Via this guy (fab: here I am, actually linking linking to A. Sullivan. Bipartisanity, I s’pose.)
January 18th, 2008 / Tags: photos / TrackbackHistory Nexus “… is a new on-line history community site.”
January 17th, 2008 / Tags: history, resources / TrackbackTwilight of the Books: ‘“What will life be like if people stop reading?” by Caleb Crain’ — approaching the end of an era (btw: should it not be when and not if?)
January 17th, 2008 / Tags: good writing, books, culture / TrackbackEurope Takes Africa’s Fish, and Migrants Follow: “Ale Nodye, the son and grandson of fishermen in this northern Senegalese village, said that for the past six years he netted barely enough fish to buy fuel for his boat. So he jumped at the chance for a new beginning. He volunteered to captain a wooden canoe full of 87 Africans to the Canary Islands in the hopes of making their way illegally to Europe.” Oy vey: the bittersweet fruits of globalization…
January 14th, 2008 / Tags: politics / TrackbackSquare America Snapshots & Vernacular Photography — via Old is the New New. Fascinating.
January 9th, 2008 / Tags: america, photos / TrackbackThe Best Links 2007 (kottke.org). Thanks, Mr. Kottke — there goes my quiet evening. How did I miss that much?
January 7th, 2008 / Trackbacksmashing telly – the best full length free tv programs on the web, updated every day. Yay.
January 7th, 2008 / Tags: tv, culture / TrackbackIslam and the Left. Dialogue or cold war?: “What stance should the left adopt with regard to Islam and a multicultural society? Dialogue or cold war? In an article published in the magazine Reset, Nadia Urbinati of Columbia University initiated a long discussion with the Princeton philosopher Michael Walzer, editor of Dissent.” Much food for thought.
January 7th, 2008 / Tags: politics, islam / TrackbackMalcolm Gladwell: What I.Q. doesn’t tell you about race.
January 7th, 2008 / Tags: iq, junk science / TrackbackDavid Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars: “What is called the music business today, however, is not the business of producing music. At some point it became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over. But that’s not bad news for music, and it’s certainly not bad news for musicians. Indeed, with all the ways to reach an audience, there have never been more opportunities for artists.”
January 7th, 2008 / Tags: music, cluelessness / TrackbackFound in Translation, on a Chinese Flight: “When you wake up in the morning, trying to figure out whether you are in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, you hear the harmonic voice of the Backstreet Boys on the radio. You suddenly forget where you are — because music is boundless! This is the power of Foreign POP Music.’
October 30th, 2007 / Tags: music, china, funny / TrackbackAndre Gorz, RIP – who once wrote: “Work for economic ends has not always been the dominant activity of mankind. It has only been dominant across the whole of society since the advent of industrial capitalism, about two hundred years ago. Before capitalism, people in pre-modern societies, in the Middle Ages and the Ancient World, worked far less than they do nowadays, as they do in the precapitalist societies that still exist today. In fact, the difference was such that the first industrialists, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, had great difficulty getting their workforce to do a full day’s work, week in week out.” (here)
September 26th, 2007 / Tags: politics, rip / TrackbackSeniors balk at ban on free doughnuts: “It was just another morning at the senior center: Women were sewing, men were playing pool — and seven demonstrators, average age 76, were picketing outside, demanding doughnuts.” — via Darren.
September 25th, 2007 / Tags: america, funny, doughnuts / TrackbackThe Braindead Megaphone : kotttke.org points to, what seems, a fine and interesting essay.
September 11th, 2007 / Tags: media / TrackbackChina Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation: “In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission.”(via FP)
August 30th, 2007 / Tags: china, funny but not ha-ha / TrackbackSome reading: Point-Of-Departure. Perhaps most of the texts are also elsewhere to be found, but here, conveniently, in one place. (via the WSM mailing list…)
August 28th, 2007 / Tags: politics, mags / TrackbackMovies dumbing down science: a list of egregious (and funny) offenses: “As we’ve discussed more times than I care to recall, the US educational system does not do a good job of producing scientifically-literate adults, and the media isn’t a force for clarity in the sciences either. Two physicists from the University of Central Florida are now saying the combination of the two makes everything that much worse. They claim that as Hollywood mixes realistic special effects with the physically absurd, they’re leaving a scientifically-illiterate public completely bewildered about what’s actually possible here in the real world.”
August 17th, 2007 / Tags: junk science, media / TrackbackEarly blogging: sans, of course, comments and trackbacks and even live links: nevetheless, this feels quite a bit like a blog, does it not?
August 16th, 2007 / Tags: blogism / TrackbackAll the Cake: well, sorry for that lame pun. Anyways, for those of us who can’t or won’t run Rails (like, say, if we are on a shared host and the admins don’t really fancy memory leaks and stuff) there is CakePHP. True, there is not a high-profile ref app in the wild (yet?) — but these three apps look neat-o nevertheless: ScienceHack, Elistic and Mingle2. And all of them are one-man efforts.