August 2010
“It recalls a certain bit of wisdom from Truman Capote. “The real difference...”
– vanity fair
“I’ve no idea what informs my approach to each picture other than a vague...”
– in other words, how to get to art.
“… photographs bring themselves into being. All I can do is try to draw...”
– mike golby
July 2010
“Reading Barnes, like reading so many other English writers of his generation –...”
– 3quarksdaily
“The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that romantic rejection is a...”
– not that i’ve ever been like that, myself
“Ballmer (and Microsoft) still doesn’t get the iPad”
– ars technica. i don’t know, are we surprised?
“Do you wanna see a show about fucking? Sure, you do”
– the rude pundit (who wrote one)
“There’s no shell script, there’s no fancy pen, there’s no notebook or nap or...”
– merlin mann
“Every household in North Korea is provided with a white cloth, to be used...”
– arts and letters daily
“UK GOVERNMENT ACTS TO PREVENT ARREST OF POPE”
– one hell of a headline
“Scientists behind the European particle collider aimed at uncovering the secrets...”
– jesus fc, enough already. greedy buggers.
“There used to be obscenity. There used to be a distinction, as between day and...”
– lenny michaels
“So, what do you do if you’re a PC maker whose business is still all about...”
– cnet. pitiful, really.
“… how modernism’s roots lay in part in the fundamental human need to...”
– something to ponder -h/t chris locke (link goes to amazon)
“I wonder if panic has started to set in at Apple yet.”
– um, dan? no.
“The art of slow reading | The Guardian
tags: fuckers reading books”
– derek powazek. not sure if that’s one tag or three.
“Henry David Thoreau, who was wrong about so many things, was right when he said...”
– mystic bourgeoisie
“A society in which material development co-exists with spiritual progress is one...”
– well then we are good and truly fucked
“… or maybe because I just happen to prefer people whose sweaters are...”
– xoxo rabbit blog
“By they I mean me. But I don’t think I’m alone.”
– peggy noonan. sadly mistaken.
“Joyce Carol Oates told The New York Times Magazine why violence is so often the...”
– which explains why she is not very good
“I told him that on a scorching Great Plains summer day, without...”
– dick cavett | arthur godfrey
“Whatever is most charming, most promising of success, most popular, and most in...”
– just a thought
“The saddest, most pathetic, most “Tell me about the rabbits, George”...”
– the rude pundit
“Plants ‘can think and remember’”
– oh my god. as if things weren’t bad enough …
“And whatever you do, don’t get talked into a drinking game involving Jobs saying...”
– daring fireball
“Joan Rivers on how to find Osama bin Laden: “He’s on dialysis. There is one...”
– the new republic
“Tolstoy’s mastery of the feat of simultaneously putting the reader inside the...”
– london review of books
“… this is really the marvel of capitalism: its ability to treat as a...”
– this can’t be happening
“BP is deploying its deep pockets in an attempt to buy up every single scientist...”
– remember your shakespeare?
“… the man of the East cannot take Americans seriously because they have...”
– tony judt quoting milosz
“This is President Obama’s Rwanda moment”
– dave eggers on the sudan
“Falling in love with the average 21-year-old guy is like falling in love with a...”
– that rabbit
“Sometimes, when we’re talking,
my dad will stop, and sigh, and close his eyes....”
– ::: wood s lot :::
“Whenever you say that, people cry censorship, but frankly? Fuck off.”
– clay shirkey
“And to put it in one bleak sentence, no medium has ever survived the...”
– clay shirkey/a>
“Bill Clinton Plans Out How To Help Democrats In 2010”
– are we sure about that?
“Thank you, Switzerland, for freeing Polanski”
– wapo
“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not...”
– annie dillard
“Over the past several years, Rotenberg and her team have made clear that when...”
– how lovely, and how obvious 