January 2012
8 posts
“Starting with near zero space capability in 1961, the National Aeronautics and...”
– How Much Is an Astronaut’s Life Worth? - Reason Magazine
“We always want to reward art for being innovative, but most artistic innovations...”
– Chuck Klosterman on tUnE-yArDs - Grantland
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December 2011
9 posts
“A Confusion of Terms
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs,...”
– The Law, by Frederic Bastiat
Sad, Alliterative Breakfast Foods
scz:
Bummed Bacon Chagrined Croissants Dejected Donuts Forlorn Frittatas Glum Granola Heartbroken Homefries Melancholy Muesli Pensive Porridge Somber Scrapple Wailing Waffles
Eggs Ennui
November 2011
9 posts
“But why can’t Occupiers meet up in a church basement, or check out a room...”
– The Occupy Movement’s Enthusiasm and Contempt for Democracy | The Moral Sciences Club | Big Think
GIBSON: I had a very limited tool kit when I began writing. I didn’t know how to handle transitions, so I used abrupt breaks, the literary equivalent of jump cuts. I didn’t have any sense of how to pace anything. But I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a certain place in the story and you just step on the Ballard.
INTERVIEWER: What was the effect?
GIBSON: A more genuine kind of future shock. I wanted the reader to feel constantly somewhat disoriented and in a foreign place, because I assumed that to be the highest pleasure in reading stories set in imaginary futures.
“There’s a recent report of a method to make a more stable form of it, by...”
– Things I Won’t Work With: Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane. In the Pipeline
For scz.
October 2011
8 posts
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“On the other hand, you had very sensitive and responsible young people suddenly...”
– Sterling Morrison - Reflections In A Lone Star Beer
(via Eve Tushnet, of course)
September 2011
7 posts
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“Special Weapons Emergency Separation System (SWESS), also known informally as...”
– Special Weapons Emergency Separation System
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“They hate the government — [the IRS is] just the most convenient incarnation of...”
– Ibid., p. 134-135. (via scz)
Interesting on the surface, but I think inaccurate upon reflection. Saying, “the government is the people” and “the very civic functions we’ve ceded to it” implies that by participating in a democracy you implicitly agree with the outcome of that...
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“Reading all the paeans and homilies and homages to the date is an experience...”
– Who Is IOZ?: Ten, Nine, Eleven
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August 2011
3 posts
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trevmex's tumblings: Announcing Functional Fall: A... →
trevmex:
Lambdas, combinators and s-expresions, oh my! With the likes of Clojure, Scala and F#, functional programming has been making a comeback. Functional ideas have been popping up from systems as large as Hadoop to ones as small as a multi-core processor. Come find out what all the…
July 2011
6 posts
WatchDune without Dialog (by Beschizza)
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