more than 95 theses

freedom

Apr 1st

Here, via Monoscope

Apr 1st

“Few species can equal the ant’s level of social...”
— Yikes.

Apr 1st

nobody is in favor of technology

Mar 31st

one app to rule them all

Mar 31st

Okay, the Bacon Meme has more than worn out its welcome —...

Mar 31st

T. S. Eliot and Animal Farm

Mar 30th

I saw that book review. . .

Mar 30th

tragic humanism

Mar 30th

after all, you're my wonder wheel

Mar 29th

Mar 29th

new illustrations of children’s classics

Mar 29th

Mar 29th

“It is well-known that an automaton once existed, which was...”
— Walter Benjamin’s first...

Mar 26th

“There is an immense difference, a dialectical difference,...”
— Søren Kierkegard, from The...

Mar 25th

a word from your host

Mar 24th

Fulford on Orwell

Mar 24th

my local library

Mar 23rd

Crocuses, northern Germany. The usual magnificence of The...

Mar 23rd

readability

Mar 23rd

“Most essay mills claim that they’re only providing...”
— here

Mar 23rd

“I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other...”
— Terry Pratchett in a 1985...

Mar 23rd

“Anyone who’s given Gmail a fair shake will quickly find...”
— Alex Payne. This is pretty...

Mar 22nd

“The British Humanist Association is currently running a...”
— Roger Scruton

Mar 21st

true confessions

Mar 21st

“The American suburb as we know it is dying. The implosion...”
— Time

Mar 21st

Bob Dylan's debt to the Canterbury Tales...

Mar 21st

literacy and suicide

Mar 20th

“As a survivor of the postage-stamp era, college was my big...”
— Peggy Orenstein

Mar 20th

Self, typing

Mar 19th

linkages

Mar 19th

life skillz

Mar 18th

Jerry Jalava has built a special prosthetic finger which...

Mar 18th

me on essay mills

Mar 18th

re-reading re-visited

Mar 18th

Pound and Fenollosa

Mar 17th

I want a Cargonaut! (Via Core77)

Mar 17th

“It is the 2009 Name of the Year Ballot. We can’t imagine...”
— Here. Or go straight to the...

Mar 17th

“Now, with the recent discovery of a truly monstrous virus,...”
— here

Mar 17th

the tweebook

Mar 16th

Makoto Fujimura

Mar 16th

Terry Pratchett, Why Gandalf Never Married

Mar 15th

“When I was 26, out of a mixture of financial desperation and...”
— John Wray

Mar 15th

Shirky on newspapers

Mar 14th

“France’s Gendarmerie Nationale, the country’s...”
— Ars

Mar 14th

The Quivering Upper Lip by Theodore...

Mar 14th

“I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is...”
— Charles Krauthammer

Mar 14th

On Plagiarism: It's Culture, Not Morality

Mar 13th

explanation of this wonderful invention at Core77

Mar 13th

possibly the most nightmarish site on the...

Mar 13th

more ideography

Mar 13th

landscape textiles by Ray Reynolds, courtesy of things

Mar 13th

“First, let me say that I believe school staff — particularly...”
— Geoffrey Canada, founder of...

Mar 12th

asses and apostles

Mar 12th

ideography

Mar 12th

from the Lost Knowledge Issue of Make

Mar 12th

“In drinking in Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments...”
— the great David Edelstein

Mar 11th

The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell « Book...

Mar 11th

department of no comment

Mar 11th

“You can draw up a list of the greatest entrepreneurs of...”
— here

Mar 11th

me: uncabled

Mar 11th

“We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse...”
— here. I think these dark...

Mar 10th

“To most of us, Rove’s attack is familiar and...”
— William Saletan. Supporters of...

Mar 10th

living in shipping containers, via Core77

Mar 10th

In the Blood: A Critic at Large: The New...

Mar 10th

Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The...

Mar 10th

choice architecture, continued

Mar 10th

the archangels' library

Mar 10th

“What he’s listening for is a unique feeling, a unique mood...”
— Bono on Eno

Mar 10th

“‘I think this economy was a good way to cure my...”
— from the NYT, further proof...

Mar 10th

Is this Shakespeare?

Mar 9th

flamethrowers and fire extinguishers

Mar 9th

“He will be unhappy in that situation, as he has indeed been...”
— David Hume on Rousseau, during...

Mar 9th

“Thus, if someone wants to have faith and reason too, well,...”
— Kierkegaard

Mar 9th

Thomas Stearns Eliot, by Powys Evans (watercolour, circa...

Mar 8th

'Oh, tell me the truth about beauty' by...

Mar 7th

“So think about that. YouTube was the single fastest growing...”
— John Battelle

Mar 7th

Simon Armitage, "A Vision"

The future was a beautiful place, once. Remember the full-blown balsa-wood town on public display...

Mar 7th

distinguo

Mar 6th

moment of surrender

Mar 6th

“On his deathbed, they say, Leonardo da Vinci regretted that...”
— W.A. Pannapacker, here. He...

Mar 6th

Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press

Mar 5th

“This compact 35mm camera was one of the most...

Mar 5th

As Jackie Brown was a tribute to ’70s blaxploitation,...

Mar 5th

I’d love to make me some of these — if I had the...

Mar 5th

lying

Mar 5th

Been there, done that.

Mar 5th

“Civilisation’s greatest single invention is the...”
— John Banville

Mar 5th

“The problem with Sony, in a picture.”

Mar 4th

a dialogue

Mar 4th

me on Anthony Lane, violence, and suffering

Mar 4th

Eric Hobsbawm: Era of Wonders

Mar 4th

Birkerts and the Kindle

Mar 3rd

Watch

Thanks, Reihan.

Mar 3rd

Text Patterns: what to save, continued

Mar 3rd

Richard Lewontin: Billions and Billions of...

Mar 2nd

Text Patterns: what to save and how to save...

Mar 2nd

The Unfinished: on David Foster Wallace

Mar 2nd

The Background Hum: on Ian McEwan

Mar 2nd

“Bliss — a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of...”
— David Foster Wallace, a note...

Mar 2nd

“The dogma of American superiority makes many of its citizens...”
— Stefan McDaniel, a native of...

Mar 2nd

“Pearce is, I imagine, something of a curiosity to the...”
— David Pearce is an English...

Mar 2nd

the Atlas powered exoskeleton, described here

Mar 1st

more counting

Mar 1st