March 2012
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Mar 27th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 12th
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Getting outside
From an interview at BOMBLOG with the author of Atta, Jarett Kobek: …what is strange about ATTA is that, although I call it a psychedelic biography, it’s well within the tradition of literary fiction, and most recent literary fiction has distanced itself from the wider world. There’s a disengagement with bigger topics on the part of young writers. The model is very small books about very...
Mar 11th
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“Finally, there was no torture, no rape in the shower. Just the good ol’...”
– www.danwei.org/crime/a_foreigners_life_in_a_beijing.php
Mar 10th
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Mar 10th
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October 2011
8 posts
Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
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Oct 25th
Oct 25th
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WatchWatch
Nice job. Soundtracking the Waves of the Sun and Your Brain  {Interview - Sonification (by Robert Alexander)}
Oct 24th
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September 2011
3 posts
Shrill shirt ballooning
To Brooklyn Bridge How many dawns, chill from his rippling rest The seagull’s wings shall dip and pivot him, Shedding white rings of tumult, building high Over the chained bay waters Liberty—   Then, with inviolate curve, forsake our eyes As apparitional as sails that cross Some page of figures to be filed away; —Till elevators drop us from our day … I think of...
Sep 11th
“Sometimes it seems that the government has learned more from our social movement...”
– Climate Politics and the English Language | Motherboard
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Jul 17th
“Announcement Try Willie’s Italian Special, The Godfather, or the Veggie...”
– Graham Avenue Meats and Deli - Williamsburg - North Side - Brooklyn, NY big up
Jul 17th
June 2011
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WatchWatch
Say it
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“The hope of fulfilling the demands of individual self-assertion and community...”
– Zygmunt Bauman, The Hedgehog Review
Jun 5th
“What all media, all representations—from street signs to photographs to...”
– “On the Politics of Pastiche and Depthless Intensities: The Case of Barack Obama,” The Hedgehog Review
Jun 5th
“(Just imagine if Tom had also schooled them in the networking opportunities of...”
– David Carr: Media Companies Cash In, at Cost of Unpaid Contributors
Jun 2nd
May 2011
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“Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it...”
– Franzen: Technology Provides an Alternative to Love
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“You will believe that this understanding has not been with out it’s misgivings;...”
– Robert Oppenheimer, in a letter to one of his high school teachers, following the dropping of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima
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May 19th
“McDonald’s restaurants in Europe will soon be swapping the chain’s...”
– McDonald’s to Replace Cashiers with Touch Screen Computers
May 19th
“Although some vendors were given vague explanations for the jasmine freeze —...”
– Jasmine Becomes Contraband in China (NYT)
May 19th
“The controversy was one more step in the trends we have seen operating since the...”
– A Historian Looks ‘Back’ at the Climate Fight (NYT)
May 19th
“Furman, 56, is nicknamed “Mr. Versatility” because of his ability to...”
– Man Sets World Record For ‘Most World Records’
May 19th
February 2011
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Feb 13th
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January 2010
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November 2009
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Nov 30th
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The Devil is in the Retail
smartercities: impossiblog: The privatization of public space, and what to do about it. ‘The city has become a visually-branded backdrop to retail in which life is not lived but product is consumed. The Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg, who has been responsible for a number of innovative interventions in the Caracas favelas, eloquently addresses the problem as the need to “move from...
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
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Dear NASA, Are we gonna die?
fiatluxemburg: msmandrake: Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012. Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. [NASA via MR] I want to work for the division of NASA that answers these tough questions so much. They think we’ll have more time?
Nov 11th
Shan Wan in Nanjing
I’m part of a new trend. Li’s “meet and split” idea has proved so attractive because it is an “all fun, no obligation” arrangement. Thousands of young Chinese have joined online shan wan forums. Shan wan groups are usually made up of two to six people, called shan you. They go Dutch on their outings, which pack in activities like sightseeing, eating, singing karaoke and shopping. The...
Nov 6th
October 2009
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What word I am thinking of
Trying desperately to remember a word, a simple word, especially, and especially one that is everywhere evident around you — that once involved sheer thinking, like the kind you used to break out of an underwater safe. The Internet changes things. I couldn’t remember the word ‘terror’ somehow, so I turned to Google. It is a very appreciated site, but how really terrifying...
Oct 23rd
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Masons' Hands
something was on the news hour about the Masons — about to be America’s new fave obsession, thank you Dan Brown — and my dad mentioned his great grandfather was a mason and i looked him up, and found his brother, who carved horses on Coney Island. There’s a little bio about him on a google books, and, well, you’ve really got to hand it to google.
Oct 21st
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Oct 15th