July 2011
31 posts
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Volta Do Mar - “The Sound of Day” At...
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“When you are drowsy in a morning, and find a reluctance to getting out of your...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Doubts About Lytro's "Focus Later" Camera →
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The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress →
An interesting New York Times article about the cult game Dwarf Fortress. It actually refers to a post I made on Metafilter several years ago about the game.
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At The Close Of Every Day - ” All Things End...
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“The bold they kill, th’ unwary they surprise; Who fights finds death, and...”
– Dryden’s Æneid
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The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad, 1907)
When you really come down to it, there really isn’t much to The Secret Agent, Conrad’s schizophrenic ensemble piece describing several “anarchists” in a sort of imagined historical account of the real Greenwich Observatory bombing of 1894. Yet its pages are rich and meticulously crafted, full of detail which could only be supplied by someone completely involved with his...
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“An impudent fellow may counterfeit modesty, but I’ll be hanged if a modest...”
– Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops To Conquer
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Pelt - “True Vine” Ayahuasca
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Vocabulary: Coarse Corruption Edition
shagreen: skin of sharks or rays used as an abrasive; also, a coarse, granular leather macumba: a Brazilian cult that combined Christianity with occult practices argolic: pertaining to Argolis, a southeastern district of ancient Greece bolection: a raised molding surrounding a door, panel, window, etc furbelow: a ruffle or showy bit of trimming, as on a woman’s dress catoptric: the study of...
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“Reason is a faculty which is sufficient for its own purposes. Its operations...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“Here and to the southward the neighbourhood became better, flowering at last...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
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Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis My Summer at an Indian Call Center David Attenborough And The Riddle Of The Victorian Skull
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“A square peg forced into a round hole, he had felt like a daily outrage that...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
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““I come, I come,”
And a maiden sat in her summer bower,
In the...”
– The Cry of Death, Catherine H. Waterman
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Julianna Barwick - “White Flag” The...
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In defense of HBO's "unnecessary" nudity →
“For the record, I don’t have a problem with any of the violence or language on ‘Game of Thrones,’ either; it’s set in a Dungeons and Dragons-flavored version of Hobbes’ State of Nature, and as such, we should expect to see elemental human activities depicted often, and with gusto, and if we have a problem with that, we shouldn’t be watching. I just find...
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machiavellian navelgaze →
The Prince: Political Science or Political Satire Looking for Someone: Sex, love, and loneliness on the Internet Discovering my microbiome: “You, my friend, are a wonderland”
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“Do not therefore consider this life as an object of any moment. Look back on the...”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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“It was a very trying day, choked in raw fog to begin with, and now drowned in...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent