August 2010
melissa gira grant: What do you call a group of... →
Iris Blasi asks:
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Reading—for avid readers, at least—necessitates an active role not addressed by the passive noun “audience.” The act of reading is different from the act of watching. (So-called) “real” readers inhabit a book and live within it during the reading process.
The publishing…
“The history of the space race, as written by Americans goes: We got to the Moon...”
– Micheal Swanwick (via bornofanatombomb) (via jackscoresby)
Matt Langer: It's almost Labor Day! →
Which means all you assholes out there who think it’s ever OK to wear white are finally about to be morally and legally obligated to wear some proper denim like the rest of us. Also: summer’s almost over! And it was a busy one! So busy that I think it’s worth asking: how will Summer 2k10 be…
“If you buy a book through Kindle Amazon takes a cut. If you buy it through...”
– Fantasy Football For Your Kindle - The Rumpus.net
“i’ve always said that the dividing line between internet natives and their elder...”
– fred-wilson
TEAM INTERNET.
Also at first I thought this said, “Whether or not you had sex on the Internet first,” and I kind of freaked out. (via meaghano)
“If you want truth, you turn on TV. All the big stars are working on the small...”
– Bob Lefsetz On The Emmys - The Rumpus.net
The universe is a big place, given the time even...
(via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
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Airport Adventures, or stories from my 12 hour LAX...
I’m starting to think I should have left my jacket in the car, But the two minute walk to the terminal was COLD. Also, it’s absurd that I still have the “important security announcements” memorized.
I feel sort of naked walking around an airport without a bag. Even when I used to wander around the terminals in San Diego and people watch (back when you could still do that)...
“Chang may be our best critic of capitalism, but he is far from being any kind of...”
– 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang | Book review | Books | The Observer
William Gibson: I'm agnostic about technology. But... →
I now REALLY want one of these. Fucking flying robot penguin. WICKED AWESOME.
David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of... →
In May 2003, David Grossman, one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists, began writing a new book. It was to be about what the Israelis euphemistically call “the Situation”, which was a little odd because, for the past decade, he’d carefully avoided writing about politics, in his stories, if not his journalism. It was not just that he’d long felt that almost anything...
“At one time in the history of the language “glamour” and “grammar” were the same...”
– Stray Questions for: Roy Peter Clark - NYTimes.com
Warren Ellis » Lost Language Found On Back Of A... →
Notes on the back of a 400-year-old letter have revealed a previously unknown language once spoken by indigenous peoples of northern Peru, an archaeologist says.
Penned by an unknown Spanish author and lost for four centuries, the battered piece of paper was pulled from the ruins of an ancient Spanish colonial church in 2008.
But a team of scientists and linguists has only recently revealed...
morningstar08:
I re-blog a lot of naked ladies…
yes. yes you do.
Most People Wearing Fake Mustaches In A Book →
topherchris:
The Universal Record Database says:
Want to see yourself in the URDB Book of World Records AND help set a brand new world record?
Just take a picture of yourself wearing a fake mustache, created however you like.
Email them here with your picture as an attachment. Put your full name (and anyone include in the picture) in the subject line and you’re officially part of the...
“What is love (baby don’t hurt me)?
Love is a choice you make. Because love is...”
– Katie West Interview | YOU ARE REMARKABLE
“The fly, in other words, believed to be airborne when in reality it was fixed to...”
– grinding.be » Blog Archive » Cyborg fly pilots robotic vehicle through a simple obstacle course
There’s a video. It’s pretty cool.
“The idea that China is a country full of people who write beautiful, fluid...”
– Slow Writing: Archaic Forms Of Technology Outlive Newer Ones - The Rumpus.net
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It’s morning, the headache is starting to take hold, and all I can think to do is wash this bitter taste out of my mouth… But I’m not sure if I have enough whiskey to scour out frustration and mislaid intent….
The world is twisting and I’ve put my hand through a car window. I don’t know where I am or how I got here, but there’s evil burning in my gut. So...
Protein that destroys HIV discovered | KurzweilAI →
Researchers hope to turn TRIM5a into an effective therapeutic agent. But first they need to identify the components in TRIM5a that enable the protein to destroy viruses. “Scientists have been trying to develop antiviral therapies for only about 75 years,” Campbell said. “Evolution has been playing this game for millions of years, and it has identified a point of intervention that we still know...
Jack Scoresby: I feel this might need explaining. →
The overall concept, but we’ll use Eirinn as a specific example.
Eirinn is married. She is married to a man who is not me. Eirinn and this man are deliriously happy, she’s got everything she wants, and that’s awesome. She deserves it.
I photograph Eirinn. When I ask Eirinn to model for me, she…
Facebook Declares The End Of Books - The... →
Ok, guys. We had a good run, but that whole book thing is done and over according to Facebook.
They’re suing a website called Teachbook.com, an online community for teachers, because it offers social networking AND has book in its title. Despite the fact that Facebook took its name from the now archaic practice of colleges handing out physical facebooks to incoming freshmen classes, CEO Mark...
