fthef:

rules by John Cage

ekstasis:

jhermann:

transhumanisticpanspermia:

Talk page on this page including itself: “This is an encyclopedia, not a computer science problem”

Tangled hierarchy consciousness.

…When pressed, I describe what I write about as “the Hofstadter beat.”

Also, you should probably follow my old friend Jamison.

sometimesagreatnotion:

What I Won’t Miss:

Dry skin

Bad dinners like the one we went to last night

E-mail

Technology in general

My closet

Washing my hair

Bras

Funerals

Illness everywhere

Polls that show that 32 percent of the American people believe in creationism

Polls

Fox

The collapse of the dollar

Joe Lieberman

Clarence Thomas

Bar mitzvahs

Mammograms

Dead flowers

The sound of the vacuum cleaner

Bills

E-mail. I know I already said it, but I want to emphasize it.

Small print

Panels on Women in Film

Taking off makeup every night

What I Will Miss:

My kids

Nick

Spring

Fall

Waffles

The concept of waffles

Bacon

A walk in the park

The idea of a walk in the park

The park

Shakespeare in the Park

The bed

Reading in bed

Fireworks

Laughs

The view out the window

Twinkle lights

Butter

Dinner at home just the two of us

Dinner with friends

Dinner with friends in cities where none of us lives

Paris

Next year in Istanbul

Pride and Prejudice

The Christmas tree

Thanksgiving dinner

One for the table

The dogwood

Taking a bath

Coming over the bridge to Manhattan

Pie

elliottholt:

Listed in no particular order. I forced myself to choose only one story per writer (very difficult in some cases). There is a lot of amazing short fiction out there, but these are stories—of various styles—that have stuck with me over the years and have taught me what a story can be. I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot of gems.

1. “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. “Berenice” by Edgar Allan Poe
3. “The Lady with the Lap Dog” by Chekhov
4. “The Overcoat” by Gogol
5. “The Necklace” by Guy Maupassant
6. “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
7. “The Dead” by James Joyce
8. “The Secret Life of Walter Middy” by James Thurber
9. “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner
10. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
11. “The Snows of Kilamanjaro” by Ernest Hemingway
12. “Friend of My Youth” by Alice Munro
13. “When We Were Nearly Young” by Mavis Gallant
14. “Work” by Denis Johnson
15. “Wants” by Grace Paley
16. “The Swimmer” by John Cheever
17. “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor
18. “Hitch-Hikers” by Eudora Welty
19. “The Laughing Man” by J.D. Salinger
20. “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver
21. “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried” by Amy Hempel
22. “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
23. “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” by William Gass
24. “After Rain” by William Trevor
25. “White Angel” by Michael Cunningham
26. “Girl” by Jamaica Kinkaid
27. “A Rich Man” by Edward P. Jones
28. “Do Not Disturb” by A.M. Homes
29. “Twenty Minutes” by James Salter
30. “Happy Memories” by Lydia Davis
31. “Screenwriter” by Charles D’Ambrosio
32. “Memory Wall” by Anthony Doerr
33. “L. Debard and Aliette” by Lauren Groff
34. “Bullet in the Brain” by Tobias Wolff
35. “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien
36. “Boys Town” by Jim Shepard
37. “The Fat Girl” by Andre Dubus
38. “Pastoralia” by George Saunders
39. “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” by Wells Tower
40. “Men Under Water” by Ralph Lombreglia
41. “All the Way in Flagstaff, Arizona” by Richard Bausch
42. “Brownies” by Z.Z. Packer
43. “Hell-Heaven” by Jhumpa Lahiri
44. “Sindbad” by Donald Barthelme
45. “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys
46. “The Girl Detective” by Kelly Link
47. “Sororally” by Gary Lutz
48. “Train” by Joy Williams
49. “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell
50. “The Magic Poker” by Robert Coover
51. “Lady” by Diane Williams
52. “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” by Nam Le
53. “Natasha” by David Bezmozgis
54. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates
55. “A Spoiled Man” by Daniyal Mueenuddin
56. “Rock Springs” by Richard Ford
57. “The Custodian” by Deborah Eisenberg
58. “In the Gloaming” by Alice Elliott Dark
59. “You’re Ugly, Too” by Lorrie Moore
60. “A Romantic Weekend” by Mary Gaitskill
61. “Blessed Assurance” by Allan Gurganus
62. “The Half-Skinned Steer” by Annie Proulx
63. “Drown” by Junot Diaz
64. “Immortality” by Yiyun Li
65. “Sun City” by Caitlin Horrocks
66. “None of the Above” by Suzanne Rivecca
67. “Virgins” by Danielle Evans
68. “Safari” by Jennifer Egan
69. “Testimony of Pilot” by Barry Hannah
70. “These Hands” by Kevin Brockmeier

nevver:

1. Keep good company
2. Notice the ordinary
3. Preserve the ephemeral
4. Design not for the elite but for the masses
5. Explain it to a child
6. Get lost in the content
7. Get to the heart of the matter
8. Never tolerate “O.K. anything.”
9. Remember your responsibility as a storyteller
10. Zoom out
11. Switch
12. Prototype it
13. Pun
14. Make design your life… and life, your design.
15. Leave something behind.

nevver:

Apology kit

nevver:

To-Do List