February 2012
“From the point of view of the rural Irish themselves, however, this may look...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan
“[Rabbi Jeffrey] Fox believes that e-readers - like other electrical appliances...”
– People of the E-Book? Observant Jews Struggle With Sabbath in a Digital Age - Uri Friedman - Technology - The Atlantic
On Bible translation and mobile tech →
“But the book does not exist to restore humanity to an ‘undercity’...”
– Supriya Nair on Katherine Boo’s new book
“Interestingly, when smart people feel less alienated, they seem to buy different...”
– Postrel: Can You Pass the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Test? - Bloomberg
“The sheer horror of Cicero’s murder and mutilation contributed to its mythic...”
– Mary Beard reviews ‘Cicero’ by Anthony Everitt · LRB 23 August 2001
“Dinehart, an assistant professor at the Florida International University School...”
– Connecting the dots between handwriting and high scores – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs
“Apple’s dramatic 1984 Super Bowl ad notwithstanding, in reality the...”
– If Not Orwell, Then Huxley: The Battle for Control of the Internet - Rebecca MacKinnon - Technology - The Atlantic
“That ‘something else’ has a lot to do with the complexities of...”
– Catholics, Conscience and Contraception - NYTimes.com
““Fail better” is now experimental literature’s equivalent of that famous Che...”
– Fail Worse – The New Inquiry
“I’ve increasingly felt that digital journalism and digital humanities are...”
– Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog » Blog Archive » Digital Journalism and Digital Humanities. Dan’s list of points of convergence is extremely smart and extremely provocative.
“I love electronic books, and I think they’re a huge plus in terms of...”
– Nick Harkaway
“A couple of days ago, Victor Mair wrote about some provocative behavior on the...”
– Language Log » Being descended from Confucius. Alex Shoumatoff is really good on this principle — called “pedigree collapse” — his his book The Mountain of Names.
“Labor Activist Li Qiang wants you to know that the iPhone 4 in his pocket is not...”
– Labor Activist: Apple Best at Auditing Factories, Still Not Doing Enough
“The “Socratic method,” so to speak, was conversational, and its results hugely...”
– Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century | Rightly Understood | Big Think
“From election to election, politics is mostly about jobs and the economy and the...”
– The Persistence of the Culture War - NYTimes.com
Random P. G. Wodehouse Quotation Generator →
“The fact that Udacity offers no formal credentialing puts a very interesting...”
– Experiments in Free Education: The Audacity of Udacity « The Scholarly Kitchen
“The book typographer has the job of erecting a window between the reader inside...”
– Typo-L : The Crystal Goblet. Via Matt Bernius.
On the value of cognitive friction in reading →
“Whatever startup you’re working on right now probably won’t exist in ten years....”
– Jeff Atwood leaves Stack Exchange – Marco.org
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via kadrey)
Love it.
(via harkaway)
“The effect of beauty, therefore, is good to the degree that, through its...”
– W. H. Auden, “Making, Knowing, and Judging” (in The Dyer’s Hand)
“Well before John Stuart Mill, Spinoza had the acuity to recognize that the...”
– Times Skimmer by The New York Times
“Lessig’s right: the really significant thing about the internet is that...”
– Real hero of the Facebook story isn’t Zuckerberg, it’s the internet | Technology | The Observer. Yes, let’s avoid the “clueless regulation” by all means. But now, what do we do about people like Zuckerberg who, having profited from the freedom of the internet, are now...
The Legacy of Alan Lomax (by me) →
“By 1915, Dawson’s dawn-man had become established scientific fact. The...”
– Piltdown Man: British archaeology’s greatest hoax | Robin McKie | Science | The Observer
“In May 1896, on returning from a trip to Cairo, Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson...”
– Benjamin Balint
“Something sounded familiar last week when I heard U.S. Education Secretary Arne...”
– Michael Hiltzik
“Even more extraordinary than the ape of the Tura Pieta is the one we encounter...”
– Not by the Direct Method.: Surprise guest at the Crucifixion
“Investors are already placing their bets on who the winners of the new Internet...”
– by Keith Woolcock (Facebook, Google, and the Future of the Online ‘Commons’)
A Prayer for Persons Troubled in Mind or...
O Blessed Lord, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comforts: We beseech thee, took down in pity and compassion upon this thy afflicted servant. Thou writest bitter things against him, and makest him to possess his former iniquities; thy wrath lieth hard upon him, and his soul is full of trouble: But, 0 merciful God, who hast written thy holy Word for our learning, that we, through patience...
“Ezra Pound’s beautiful translation of a poem by Li Po, from Pound’s great early...”
– Paris Review – “Exile’s Letter” , Edmund White. Do please click through to read Pound’s moving version of Li Po’s poem.
Why it's sad that Leopold Bloom didn't have the... →
“Drum asks us to envision a Muslim-run hospital that required its employees to...”
– Liberals and Catholic Hospitals - NYTimes.com
“There’s also a question for Twitter that’s still pending: Will it enter...”
– Twitter Isn’t Evil
“Hence reading is self-mastery, because the self (and its affirmations) are held...”
– So Why Read (Fiction) Any More? « Commentary Magazine
“Studying philosophy could ruin one’s ability to write poetry if the poet were an...”
– AGNI Online: “Checking One Belief Against Another”: A Conversation with H. L. Hix by Karen Schubert
“A restored liberal education would not be a liberation from “the ancestral” or...”
– Patrick Deneen
“I’m now at a point where (as far as I know), all of my online activity is linked...”
– You Are Not Your Name and Photo: A Call to Re-Imagine Identity | Epicenter | Wired.com
“Graphic designers, who favor an uncluttered aesthetic, dislike hyphens. They are...”
– “Is This the Future of Punctuation?” (Oral Social Literacy, Past and Present)