May 2012
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“Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does...”
– W.H. Auden (via brysonian)
It’s as if Auden anticipated the genre of “glib startup advice” blogging.
(via buzz)
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“Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus broke the strength, spent itself...”
– George Eliot, Middlemarch (via leopoldgursky)
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how many books do i have to read before people like me?
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lowtax:
happy not sad, sad not happy
plummerfernandez:
I’ve set up two twitter bots that follow identical algorithms but will probably evolve to be very different. Both @happyB0T and @sadB0T are learning Markov text generators. Their vocabulary starts from zero but they gradually expand it by searching for tweets and adding them to their own growing dictionary of words and phrases. They...
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“If this is the future of the book, then the book is indeed doomed. Writing is a...”
– n+1: Bones of the Book
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“Documentary vision is kind of like the “camera eye” photographers develop when,...”
– Absolutely fascinating look at the rise of the faux-vintage photograph and the accompanying learned behaviors that are here to stay. The Faux-Vintage Photo Essays I, II and III Nathan Jurgeson (via curiositycounts)
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redacted: god help me I ended up on some brainpickings link via twitter
redacted: and I just thought you'd be happy to know that after clicking around for 15 minutes I now think it is THE WORST
langer: hahaha
langer: WELCOME!
redacted: I had never really bothered to "look" at it before
langer: you put "look" in scare quotes because of the giant eyeball on curatorscode.org i hope
redacted: I'd forgotten about that stupid eyeball
redacted: but let's say yes
redacted: brainpickings is like buzzfeed for people who have deluded themselves into thinking they are actually intelligent
redacted: 7 Must-Read Books on Music, Emotion & the Brain
redacted: WHAT??
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“Staying up at night is, among other things, an act of communitarianism; an act...”
– Writing in the Dark
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brandnewswastikas:
Some girls are so cute that you just want to buy them gifts and be nice to them and secretly hate them more than anything in the world.
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“…gratuitous ontological insecurity is no fun for most people.”
– The New Atlantis » Shop Class as Soulcraft
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“The truth that lies closest, however, is only this, that you are beating your...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries (1911-1923)
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“What I discovered in my researches about this part of the country was a vigorous...”
– Marilynne Robinson on writing Gilead (via ayjay)
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“I don’t particularly make an effort to have a recognizable style. I’m usually...”
– Wes Anderson (via goldenfiddle)
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“And everyone cursed, and was invested in cursing, as if it were the only...”
– Armando Iannucci, Writer of “Veep” on HBO : The New Yorker
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“Well, I’ve never been one for meeting new people or doing new...”
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ushishir:
Swedish Runic Corpus On-line openaccessarchaeology:
The Swedish National Heritage Board has scanned the great multivolume corpus publication of Swedish runic inscriptions, Sveriges runinskrifter, and put it on-line for free.