June 2011
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May 2011
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Extracts from Vanbrugh's "The Provok'd Wife"
Constant and Heartfree: Const.: But she’s cold, my Friend, still cold as the Northern Star. Heart.: So are all Women by Nature, which makes ‘em so willing to be warm’d. Const.: O don’t prophane the Sex; prithee think ‘em all Angels for her sake, for she’s virtuous, even to a fault. Heart.: A Lover’s Head is a good accountable thing truly; he adores his...
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School of Seven Bells -...
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“Or if we do applaud, honour and admire, quota pars, how small a part, in respect...”
– Anatomy of Melancholy
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“Initium caecitas, progressus labor, exitus dolor, error omnia. [Blindness at the...”
– Petrarch
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Revolver camera - shot a picture and a bullet simultaneously. (via Photojojo)
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the twitter trap →
“Basically, we are outsourcing our brains to the cloud. The upside is that this frees a lot of gray matter for important pursuits like FarmVille and “Real Housewives.” But my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community...
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Dirty Three - “Lullabye For Christie”...
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“Of all my seeking this is all my gain:
No agony of any mortal brain
Shall...”
– The Rubáiyát
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“Now, if a Muse cannot run when she is unfetter’d, ‘tis a sign she...”
– John Dryden (respecting blank verse)
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from this week →
Raspberry Pi Drive erasure and restoration Intel’s 3D transistors sky pirate kite
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The American Analog Set - “Aaron &...
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why is the aperture scale logarithmic? →
I’m not sure how true this is (I thought it had more to do with inescapable limitations of optical geometry), but it’s an interesting correlation regardless.
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“Thus rag’d the goddess; and, with fury fraught, The restless regions of...”
– Dryden’s Æneid
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“I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; ‘tis like...”
– The School For Scandal
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