September 2009
90 posts
“The Prelude of the opera begins with three notes on the cellos and then a chord...”
– Petzold Book Blog - 1859 Music: Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde”
August 2009
65 posts
“According to his biographer, Moses lowered the clearance on the 200 overpasses...”
– The Technium: Ratcheting Up Autonomy
“Die-hard environmentalist Dennis Hayes takes it to the next step: Because...”
– The Technium: Ratcheting Up Autonomy
“That wasn’t television’s only bias, because TV also accelerated the...”
– The Technium: Ratcheting Up Autonomy
“The modular nature of self-organization encourages complexity to bootstrap...”
– The Technium: Ratcheting Up Autonomy
“Nobelist Herbert Simon conjured a timeless fable to illustrate this principle....”
– The Technium: Ratcheting Up Autonomy
“It is impossible to unravel the full consequences of removing or adding just one...”
– The Technium: Ratcheting Up Autonomy
“There is a Puritanical grimness in the “analytical rumination hypothesis,”...”
– u n d e r v e r s e: Evolutionary Psychology & The New Calvinists
The Kickstarter Blog - Creator's Guide to Video →
“The fashion is relatively recent for slicing up history into ten-year periods,...”
– LRB · Ian Jack: Downhill from Here
[Nonsense. People didn’t use to divide world history into decades because without mass media most people had no awareness of world history unless (like the wars) it impacted them directly. Nothing to do with “wine gums”. (A devastating...
“The problem of meaning is created by limits, by being just this, by being merely...”
– Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations (1981) (via ayjay) (via wesleyhill)
“This is how famous people die: they take stimulants to party all night, and...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Michael Jackson Died Of Overdose
“Branwell and Charlotte each constantly reacted to the new developments in the...”
– Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
“The young authors decided to divide the region into a confederacy of states,...”
– Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
“To help remember the difference between these two calcite structures -...”
– Everything Dinosaur :: Israeli Cave Promises an Abundance of Prehistoric Artifacts
“A bacterium has a few choices — perhaps to slide toward food, or divide. A...”
– The Technium: Expansion of Free Will
TOWARDS A THEORY AND BIOLOGY OF KAIJU →
How Godzilla works.
Big Finish - Doctor Who →
Doctor Who audio plays.
Roger Pearse →
“At this period every American citizen seems to have owned a donkey, and it seems to be understood that the animal is kept close by at all times. “
New Directions in Pooh Studies →
” In all confidence we may say that a priori we may expect the Pooh corpus (viz. Winnie-the-Pooh, hereafter abbreviated W, containing traditions of higher antiquity than the Deutero-Pooh book, The…
“Goya was in some ways the greatest of all delineators of madness, because he was...”
– exercept from “Goya,” by Robert Hughes (via pedrosanchez) (via smut-to-go)
BBC NEWS →
Calcutta bans the worst pollution-emitting vehicles.
Daily Mail-o-matic | qwghlm.co.uk →
100 Years of Design Manifestos -- Social Design... →
u n d e r v e r s e →
“Musicians are a menace.”
Pattern in Islamic Art →
“Most sought after entertainers in Europe are black American musicians,...”
– News from 1930: Monday, August 11, 1930: Dow 222.59 -0.23 (0.1%)
[Four years until the Quintette du Hot Club de France.]
“Whenever you use any online service, especially one without a proven business...”
– Self-LART - The Fishbowl
“Some movies are very seductive. Chinatown, for example. For days after the first...”
– The Daily Blague » Blog Archive » Weekend Update: Do Something
“Then during the war a curious thing happened. He went on duty to the town of...”
– James R. Atkinson - The Mystical in Wittgenstein’s Early Writings - Reviewed by Russell Nieli, Princeton University - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame
“While we’re at it, and with Channel 4’s problems in mind, why not just show...”
– There’s nothing wrong with good repeats | spiked
“The first space is to let you know the previous sentence has ended, and the...”
– SpecGram—Letters to the Editor
“The truth is that, while all delivery systems have particular histories and...”
– if:book: The Almighty Word
[Gibberish.]
“As Malebranche says later, “nothingness is neither perceptible nor...”
– Siris: Hulga and Malebranche (re-post) 