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textpatterns: New post: academic genres:...

Jul 31st

textpatterns: New post: What's happening to...

Jul 31st

Core77

Jul 30th

“Nothing can make up for the absence of someone whom we love,...”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from...

Jul 30th

W. H. Auden, "If I Could Tell You"

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell...

Jul 30th

textpatterns: New post: he, she, they:...

Jul 30th

textpatterns: New post: Su Blackwell's book...

Jul 30th

Policeman and Tramp, from The Seventeen Least Appropriate...

Jul 29th

from an 1899 “Engineer’s Memorandum Book,”...

Jul 29th

photos of lightning from The Big Picture

Jul 29th

textpatterns: New post: the value of...

Jul 29th

“It should be no surprise if some people, in an attempt to...”
— Ken McLaughlin

Jul 28th

“Honestly, Apple faithful, I feel like Jesus coming down from...”
— Fake Steve

Jul 28th

Jul 28th

from Wordless Books: The Original Graphic Novels by David A....

Jul 28th

from “Radovan Karadzic’s New-Age Adventure”....

Jul 28th

“Without posterity, there are no grand designs. There are no...”
— David Brooks, riffing on a...

Jul 28th

Jul 27th

TV test patterns from back in the day

Jul 27th

Wu Jiao Chang traffic roundabout in Shanghai, via Tom...

Jul 27th

“From my own experience and what I have learned about the...”
— Brandon del Pozo, a captain in...

Jul 27th

“Amazon, with its listmania lists and its sometimes inspired...”
— Nicholson Baker

Jul 27th

“At present, the southeast of England has a greater...”
— Jeremy Clarkson

Jul 26th

“Did you know that now, thanks to iPhone, you can use...”
— Fake Steve is the greatest man...

Jul 26th

W. H. Auden, "Anthem" (1944)

Let us praise our Maker, with true passion extol Him. Let the whole creation give out another...

Jul 24th

Jul 24th

textpatterns: Human beings glow:...

Jul 24th

Double helix bookshelves

Jul 24th

Jul 23rd

From a new exhibition of photographs of readers by André...

Jul 23rd

textpatterns: New post: shelving....

Jul 23rd

“In The Shack [the supreme being is] a laid back mama with a...”
— Brian Appleyard

Jul 23rd

textpatterns: Your Social Media Strategy...

Jul 22nd

“Even on your skin, the diversity of bacteria is prodigious....”
— Olivia Judson

Jul 22nd

Watch

via Snarkmarket

Jul 22nd

textpatterns: New post: the art of the...

Jul 22nd

textpatterns: New post: first they came for...

Jul 22nd

viz: « Dr. Boli

Jul 21st

textpatterns: Alex Payne thinks feed readers...

Jul 21st

textpatterns: New post: Accept my cyborg...

Jul 21st

W. H. Auden, "Paysage Moralisé"

Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys, Seeing at end of street the barren mountains, Round...

Jul 21st

textpatterns: Zittrain warns against the...

Jul 21st

textpatterns: Adam Thierer warns against the...

Jul 21st

textpatterns: Farhad Manjoo thinks the Amazon...

Jul 21st

“People bought (and continue to buy) real paper newspapers...”
— Gruber on predictions that...

Jul 20th

Watch

Too true to be good. Way too true to be good.

Jul 20th

“In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages...”
— Buzz Aldrin, as told to Eric...

Jul 20th

textpatterns: New post: the KIndle saga...

Jul 20th

textpatterns: Scott Berkun "calls BS on...

Jul 20th

textpatterns: Why not rent your textbooks?...

Jul 20th

Jul 20th

Pick your cover for Wuthering Heights.

Jul 20th

“Denmark is the happiest nation in the world. More than...”
— NYT

Jul 19th

“[Greg] Mortenson said he was originally critical of the U.S....”
— Thomas Friedman. I know what...

Jul 19th

via Radley Balko

Jul 19th

my thoughts on the story quoted just below

Jul 19th

“Verizon Wireless … posts instructions on its Web sites...”
— NYT

Jul 19th

Simon Armitage, "Ten Pence Story"

Out of the melting pot, into the mint; next news I was loose change for a Leeds pimp, burning a...

Jul 18th

textpatterns: "10 (unexpected) places where...

Jul 18th

textpatterns: The Gurdaian wants to know...

Jul 18th

“In his new book The Healing of America, the journalist T.R....”
— Here. Stereotypes live!

Jul 18th

textpatterns: Amazon is taking back Kindle...

Jul 17th

from Beck.com (via Matt Frost)

Beck: Who you know and whatever situations you find yourself in with whatever people—it’s all sort of arbitrary. There are an infinite amount of doors you could’ve opened.
Tom Waits: And walk right out and walk right into another door and start another life six blocks away.
Beck: I wonder if you could really do that anymore? I just went to Japan and they scan your eyes when you come into the country now. They have a computer that reads your finger print.
Tom Waits: At the airport?
Beck: Yeah, when you’re going through customs.
Tom Waits: They read your eye? Oh, man!
Beck: Yeah they read your eyeball.
Tom Waits: Japan is the home of the $700 orange.
Beck: It’s the best orange you’ve ever had. It’s gonna be a religious orange experience. (Laughs)
Tom Waits: It’s supposed to be. Yeah, you ... you’d want a room. Just with you and the orange, I think. (laughs) They take all the blossoms off the tree except for one, and that’s the one that becomes the orange. All the nutrients are going to one orange. And they have a square watermelon, you know? It matures inside a wooden box, then they cut the wood off and they have this square fruit. Slice it like bread and stack it in a warehouse.

Jul 17th

textpatterns: Harvard UP now selling books on...

Jul 17th

textpatterns: New post: the media of literary...

Jul 17th

textpatterns: The value of Latin for the...

Jul 17th

textpatterns: Christopher Heard's research...

Jul 17th

from Beck.com (via Matt Frost)

Beck: Who you know and whatever situations you find yourself in with whatever people—it’s all sort of arbitrary. There are an infinite amount of doors you could’ve opened.
Tom Waits: And walk right out and walk right into another door and start another life six blocks away.
Beck: I wonder if you could really do that anymore? I just went to Japan and they scan your eyes when you come into the country now. They have a computer that reads your finger print.
Tom Waits: At the airport?
Beck: Yeah, when you’re going through customs.
Tom Waits: They read your eye? Oh, man!
Beck: Yeah they read your eyeball.
Tom Waits: Japan is the home of the $700 orange.
Beck: It’s the best orange you’ve ever had. It’s gonna be a religious orange experience. (Laughs)
Tom Waits: It’s supposed to be. Yeah, you ... you’d want a room. Just with you and the orange, I think. (laughs) They take all the blossoms off the tree except for one, and that’s the one that becomes the orange. All the nutrients are going to one orange. And they have a square watermelon, you know? It matures inside a wooden box, then they cut the wood off and they have this square fruit. Slice it like bread and stack it in a warehouse.

Jul 17th

“Of all the economic bubbles that have been pricked, few have...”
— The Economist

Jul 17th

“This catastrophe of education as preparation for...”
— Patrick Deneen

Jul 17th

Do you recognize these men? (Here, via Dave.)

Jul 17th

“On those long and drunken evenings (the bane of their family...”
— Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff

Jul 16th

textpatterns: New post: the DRM debate...

Jul 16th

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as...”
— Douglas Adams

Jul 16th

When I try to think, this is what happens.

Jul 16th

My feelings about the amount of work I have to do in the...

Jul 16th

textpatterns: New post: the story of a...

Jul 16th

textpatterns: I'm trying to decide whether...

Jul 16th

textpatterns: 12% of email users have...

Jul 16th

“[Amanda] Marcotte, you might know, is kind of a deal on the...”
— Rod Dreher. Exactly. The...

Jul 16th

“After reading the salary, I’ve decided that I must...”
— Richard Feynman’s...

Jul 15th

Then, Voyager

Jul 15th

textpatterns: Is the "golden age of blogging"...

Jul 15th

textpatterns: Khoi Vinh and "interaction...

Jul 15th

“The question then presses: who, in the US, is now in...”
— Bishop Tom Wright

Jul 14th

“…somehow, in the writing, my whole treatment of the subject...”
— Ronald Knox, Enthusiasm: A...

Jul 14th

viz: Jonathan Swift, “A Project for the Advancement of...

Jul 14th

Jul 14th

Andy Baio’s meme scenery: people and animals removed....

Jul 14th

antisocial bookmarking

Jul 14th

“War Horse”

Jul 14th

“‘I don’t think you ought to read so much...”
— Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?

Jul 14th

textpatterns: Why do these guys —...

Jul 14th

the green at heart

My essay on The Green Bible, “Blessed Are the Green at Heart,” is now up on the website of First...

Jul 13th

The American Scene: A Homeschooler's Bleg

Jul 13th

“A universal art can only be the product of a community...”
— W. H. Auden, in his...

Jul 13th

“Josh and his wife Celia helped us join in the community -...”
— Sharon Astyk

Jul 13th

textpatterns: Rands translates business lingo...

Jul 13th

marginal technology

Jul 13th

his tiny life

Jul 13th

Watch

Well, maybe I’m an idiot, but I had no idea how much content — like this early film from...

Jul 13th

Incredibly bizarre stuff here, via Snarkmarket

Jul 12th

pegobry: nevver: Good Grief Doesn’t the mouth...

Jul 12th

textpatterns: Adventures in proving the...

Jul 12th

textpatterns: Have you experienced "word...

Jul 12th

“We have times and moods and tenses of black depression and...”
— Rudyard Kipling, “The Uses of...

Jul 12th

The American Scene: In Praise of Oddballs

Jul 12th

textpatterns: Question Box: the internet for...

Jul 12th

textpatterns: “'Everyone wants to be in the...

Jul 12th

Review: Eighty Years of Book Cover Design by...

Jul 12th

Review: Does God Hate Women? By Ophelia...

Jul 12th

Jul 12th

The Kakfa boxed set, by pixelspread.

Jul 12th

As the world’s greatest detective begins to uncover the...

Jul 12th

textpatterns: Anil Dash on "Google's...

Jul 11th

textpatterns: Internet romances are . . ....

Jul 11th

To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes |...

Jul 11th

Core truth of encyclical gets 'lost in...

Jul 11th

“Christian theology speaks about mercy, but does so by...”
— « John Webster, chapel at...

Jul 11th

“It takes a prince, heir to the thrones of Britain and Canada...”
— Mark Steyn on Prince...

Jul 11th

textpatterns: Marginalia as social...

Jul 11th

textpatterns: Virginia Postrel reviews Chris...

Jul 11th

textpatterns: Is Google finally going to get...

Jul 11th

lotech: Lovelace — The Origin (via azspot) ...

Jul 11th

Eamon Duffy on Fasting | First Things

Jul 11th

Watch

Sure it’s pure flash, but it’s fun.

Jul 11th

Via Kottke

Jul 11th

the future of this tumblelog

Dear readers, I think I’m going to keep this tumblelog going, but in a lower gear....

Jul 11th

living in the clouds

Jul 10th

the BLDGBLOG book

Jul 9th

Tweeting

Jul 9th

perfer et obdura!

Jul 9th

Bill Gates U

Jul 8th

why do I bother

Jul 8th

Google's OS future

Jul 8th

free as in threatening

Jul 6th

Watch

Best movie stunt ever?

Jul 6th

retro calculations

Jul 3rd

decryption, 208 years later

Jul 3rd

staying connected

Jul 3rd

"I will hate you till the day I die"

Jul 1st

and yet more hatred

Jul 1st