July 2011
1 post
June 2011
20 posts
“Steps gets called a novel but it is really a collection of unbelievably creepy...”
– DFW Seven Fragmentary Novels That Aren’t The Pale King | biblioklept
“In a more technical way we can acknowledge that unfamiliarity plays an important...”
– J.H. Prynne, ‘Difficulties in the Translation of “Difficult” Poems’, Cambridge Literary Review, I/3 (Easter, 2010), pp. 151–66
http://www.cambridgeliteraryreview.org/wp-content/uploads/PrynneCLR3.pdf
“BEE vs. DFW is not exactly news. Ellis (b. 1964) and Wallace (b. 1962) both...”
– Is American Psycho Profound, Artistic Nihilism or Stupid, Shallow Nihilism? — Bret Easton Ellis vs David Foster Wallace | biblioklept
ARTISTS' BOOKS: Browse books →
The spectrum of modern and contemporary Artists’ Books in Reed College’s Special Collections and collected on this website include traditional letterpress printed books of poetry, conceptual book works, sculptural and visual works, concrete poetry, and magazine works. This unique collection, which holds significant 20th century and contemporary artists’ books, gives students and the...
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“Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what...”
– Jonathan Franzen, “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.” Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. - NYTimes.com
#uhginternet #andyoucant
joshlatka:
i mean i already hate twitter, but now because of twitter all those stupid twatters think that they can just hashtag anywhere and you cant. it doesnt make sense. it wont link to anything or help pull up posts like it.
uhg internet
perpetual beta: #HashtagRhetoric (aka: Yo dawg, I... →
And… I should have just Googled “yo dawg hashtags” first. This person got to it two whole weeks ago.
ashtonhowe:
The hashtag system used by various social media sites – wherein either words or concatenated words are prefaced with a # – is implemented as a means to maintain search result optimization. It is a form of metadata – made popular by Web 2.0 sites – that helps more...
“On that thing that Drake does all the time, which will forever now be known as...”
– So, I like, totally just Googled “hashtag as a literary device” a) you know, as I do and b) as a preemptive step toward hopefully one day arguing my position on the matter more effectively than “I know, like, I didn’t put the tag as a tag because I didn’t want to tag...
Hrm, who’s the real victim here? PBS? Sony? Wikileaks? Eh, urbanguy99 is just trying to mind his own bsnss, post his retro videos, and provide the world with questions for our 80s themed trivia nights. OR SO IT SEEMS. #lulzboat #urbanguy99 #anotherrapper Love Boat Theme (by urbanguy99)
May 2011
41 posts
“I have to remind myself that giving someone a 700 page book that got incredibly...”
– biblioklept |
“The finding: There’s little correlation between a group’s collective intelligence and the IQs of its individual members. But if a group includes more women, its collective intelligence rises.
…part of that finding can be explained by differences in social sensitivity, which we found is also important to group performance. Many studies have shown that women tend to score higher on...
“anovelexperiment started in some ways as a means of exploring the language of...”
– other things | A working bibliography
“About half of this remarkable book is, as the title and most descriptions...”
– Vitrifax: On Stanislaw Lem - Imaginary Magnitude
Computer Science, and Why: Science, Language, and... →
“One must remember that Marshall arrived at these conclusions not by hanging...”
– Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work | Brain Pickings
Those Crazy Kids & Their IM Speak
[Alfred Vail, first telegraph operator on Morse’s experimental line] wrote in 1847, ”The great advantage which this telegraph possesses in transmitting messages with the rapidity of lighting, annihilating time and space, would perhaps be much lessened by its usefulness, could it not avail itself of the application of a secret alphabet.” There were, he said, “systems”...
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Club to determine insanity →
nonchalantlybogus:
From James Gleick’s The Information (Pg. 98):
With another set he [Charles Babbage] founded a club called the Extractors, meant to sort out issues of sanity and insanity according to a set of procedures:
1. Every member shall communicate his address to the Secretary once in six months.
2. If this communication is delayed beyond twelve months, it shall be taken as granted...
Benefit Concert & Art Auction →
“In 1784 John died from a fatal inhalation of arsenic fumes used in his telescope...”
– Geological Society - Measuring the Earth with a pencil
Watchcults / abducted (by EL NINO)
SCOSAG Collaborative Painting at the St. Louis... →
“Paul Krugman is a lonely man. That he is comfortable in his solitude, that he...”
– What’s Left of the Left
“Drive behind the Geffen Contemporary, an art museum in downtown Los Angeles, and...”
– Radical Graffiti Chic by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Spring 2011 (A scathing article, much of with I disagree, but.)
Food Timeline: food history & vintage recipes →
Dead SULs →
What happens to your data when you die?
Hackers in Siberia do a bustling trade in information. A Mary Kay saleswoman uses Facebook to push lipstick. Silicon Valley’s genius seer claims to have developed an “intelligence instrument” that can predict the future.
This is the world of Dead SULs, a contemporary reimagining of one of Russian literature’s masterpieces.
First published in 1842,...
WatchHYPERTEXT REMIX SET LIST (by kellyn loehr)
Flavorwire » Hacking Museums: Our Retrospective of... →
“WARNING: Historical recordings may contain offensive language.”
– National Jukebox LOC.gov (The National Jukebox, the new digital musical player of the Library of Congress, features more than 10,000 songs released by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925) (via www.openculture.com)
