This one goes out to Jerry Coyne.
May 2nd
“The great and abandoned Manhattan underdome, photo by...
May 2nd
Listen
Jimmy Webb can write some hideous songs, but also some extraordinarily lovely ones. “The...
Apr 30th
Watch
“Praise Ye Him.” Steve Dobrogosz, composer and pianist.
Apr 30th
“The Christian-Jewish engagement is nothing, if it is not a...”
— Spengler
— Spengler
Apr 30th
my essay on "The Way, the Truth, and Philip...
Apr 30th
me on education, skills, and the future
Apr 30th
another reason I'm glad to be a Certified...
Apr 30th
URLs for books
Apr 29th
just a moment in time
Apr 28th
You can actually buy this stained-glass window representing...
Apr 28th
Czeslaw Milosz, "Account"
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes. Some would be devoted to acting against...
Apr 28th
what price What Price Liberty'
Apr 28th
one man's meat. . .
Apr 27th
understanding comments, redux
Apr 27th
“Everyone knows that Saint Peter is entirely bald, except for...”
— Bald Stories: Folktales about...
— Bald Stories: Folktales about...
Apr 25th
the future of making
Apr 25th
discriminations
Apr 24th
"Notes from the Other Side," by Jane...
I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching...
Apr 24th
“Prompted by an interest in prison ministry, I’ve been...”
— Jason Byassee, in a post that...
— Jason Byassee, in a post that...
Apr 23rd
“So when you run across a Twitter message like ‘we had...”
— Kottke
— Kottke
Apr 23rd
“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of...”
— John Stuart Mill (via John...
— John Stuart Mill (via John...
Apr 23rd
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem"
Some poems are so well-known that they become almost impossible to hear freshly, for what they...
Apr 23rd
Rolling Stone: Don’t you think appalling things happen when people become religious?
Bono: It’s a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the Universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between grace and karma.
RS: What’s that?
Bono: At the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, you put out what comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics every action is met by an equal and opposite one. And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I have done a lot of stupid stuff. I would be in big trouble if Karma is going to finally be my judge. I am holding out that Jesus took my sins to the cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don’t have to depend on my own religiosity.
RS: The Son of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wish I could believe that.
Bono: The point of death is that Christ took the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. It’s not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven.
(via Strange Herring)
Bono: It’s a mind-blowing concept that the God who created the Universe might be looking for company, a real relationship with people, but the thing that keeps me on my knees is the difference between grace and karma.
RS: What’s that?
Bono: At the center of all religions is the idea of Karma. You know, you put out what comes back to you: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, or in physics every action is met by an equal and opposite one. And yet, along comes this idea called Grace to upend all that. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I have done a lot of stupid stuff. I would be in big trouble if Karma is going to finally be my judge. I am holding out that Jesus took my sins to the cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don’t have to depend on my own religiosity.
RS: The Son of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wish I could believe that.
Bono: The point of death is that Christ took the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. It’s not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven.
(via Strange Herring)
Apr 23rd
Steven Johnson on e-reading
Apr 22nd
link dump!
Apr 22nd
me: some thoughts on conscience
Apr 22nd
Apr 22nd
Apr 22nd
Jill Sylvia’s ledger-paper art, via Make
Apr 22nd
“[Michelle] Goldberg’s overall point—that there...”
— Richard Just. I’m pretty...
— Richard Just. I’m pretty...
Apr 21st
Watch
Apr 20th
“The current con, perpetrated by some jurists, some editorial...”
— Walker Percy in 1981
— Walker Percy in 1981
Apr 20th
Saturn and its rings and moons, via The Big Picture
Apr 20th
“Over the past four years I’ve asked police officers...”
— Norm Stamper, retired Seattle...
— Norm Stamper, retired Seattle...
Apr 20th
Hashmobs
Apr 20th
Nabokov's cards
Apr 20th
Wunderkammer
Apr 20th
zooming
Apr 20th
“The Divine Right of Kings is best understood as the first...”
— C. S. Lewis,...
— C. S. Lewis,...
Apr 20th
“That is the heart of the matter: nobody really knows what...”
— I don’t remember when...
— I don’t remember when...
Apr 19th
preciseandtowering:
An eerie photo of (formerly) urban...
Apr 19th
the future of memoir
Apr 18th
comments
Apr 17th
the late age of print
Apr 16th
“Human life is no less sacred or worthy of respect because it...”
— Terrence Cardinal Cooke
— Terrence Cardinal Cooke
Apr 16th
Geoffrey Pullum's critique of Strunk and...
Apr 14th
a bookish experiment
Apr 14th
the production line
Apr 14th
“Margaret Drabble has said that she will not write another...”
— here
— here
Apr 14th
“[Strunk and White’s] The Elements of Style does not...”
— Geoffrey K. Pullum
— Geoffrey K. Pullum
Apr 11th
Nicholas Carr on Google
Apr 11th
Les Murray, "The Last Hellos"
Don’t die, Dad — But they die. This last year he was wandery: took off a new chainsaw blade and...
Apr 11th
a prayer for Good Friday
Lord Jesus Christ, who for the redemption of mankind didst ascend the cross, that thou mightest...
Apr 10th
mapping the land of books
Apr 10th
“All people have a ‘tact filter’, which applies...”
— As relevant now as when it was...
— As relevant now as when it was...
Apr 9th
Internet Asperger's Syndrome
Apr 9th
be brief, be blunt, be gone
Apr 9th
the settlement
Apr 9th
Blake, digitized
Apr 8th
Watch
Thanks to Slate.com for this one.
Apr 7th
me and the amoral menace
Apr 7th
first 11 char
Apr 6th
vookin'
Apr 6th
“The interactive application generating the biggest buzz at...”
— here
— here
Apr 5th
“In his book The Ghost in the Machine, Arthur Koestler noted...”
— David Barash
— David Barash
Apr 5th
“First saw the Northern Lights. My eye was caught by beams of...”
— Gerard Manley Hopkins, diary...
— Gerard Manley Hopkins, diary...
Apr 5th
“A tight national consensus, desirable in the face of...”
— Terry Eagleton
— Terry Eagleton
Apr 4th
my review of The Arcadian Friends
Apr 3rd
Wikipedia imaged
Apr 3rd
Watch
Tubes! (via Make)
Apr 2nd
obsessions
Apr 2nd
more on visual criticism
Apr 2nd
“What may trouble [Freeman] Dyson most about climate change...”
— NYT
— NYT
Apr 2nd
The Apple I: print available here; via Gruber
Apr 1st
Apr 1st
Beautiful new coffeepot design by Jan König (via Yanko)
Apr 1st