Keats in SoundSpel
Sep 1st
Kindle 2020
Sep 1st
getting it all confused
Sep 1st
“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to...”
— James 1:19-20
— James 1:19-20
Sep 1st
me on Jews with Swords
Aug 31st
“It’s worth pondering how the politics of abortion might have...”
— Thank you, Ross. Thank you...
— Thank you, Ross. Thank you...
Aug 31st
juliasegal:
SPOILER ALERT!
Aug 31st
“The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 gives the president the...”
— Story here, PDF draft of the...
— Story here, PDF draft of the...
Aug 30th
from the 1965 Ikea catalogue. I think I got this link from...
Aug 30th
here
Aug 30th
“It’s really sary that a retin like Glenn Bek is one of...”
— Mark Shea
— Mark Shea
Aug 29th
“Senator Kennedy was famed for the power of his oratory....”
— the editors of National...
— the editors of National...
Aug 29th
The rest of the story is here.
Aug 29th
“I don’t mean to be too flippant here, nor to accord...”
— Alex Massie
— Alex Massie
Aug 28th
Tom Stoppard's portable bookshelf
Aug 28th
“Violence has particular power on film precisely because it...”
— Johann Hari
— Johann Hari
Aug 27th
Venn diagram of imaginary creatures, via Kottke
Aug 27th
“Likening Internet commenters to the founding fathers or Deep...”
— here
— here
Aug 27th
“One of the best things about Firefox 3 was the arrival of...”
— here
— here
Aug 27th
“• ”Deuteronomy”—Average Reader’s Rating:...”
— Joe Queenan
— Joe Queenan
Aug 26th
job hunting
Aug 26th
Frank Ching
Aug 26th
“The problem of meaning is created by limits, by being just...”
— Robert Nozick, Philosophical...
— Robert Nozick, Philosophical...
Aug 26th
we've been around this block already, but...
Aug 25th
“A list of books that you reread is like a clearing in the...”
— L. E. Sissman, quoted here
— L. E. Sissman, quoted here
Aug 25th
pegobry:
ideasareawesome:
Brooklyn’s Most Expensive...
Aug 24th
mediators
Aug 24th
“Here is a partial list of false or misleading things Jerry...”
— Robert Wright convincingly...
— Robert Wright convincingly...
Aug 24th
“Our seemingly troubled times are routinely contrasted with...”
— Steven Pinker, here; hat tip...
— Steven Pinker, here; hat tip...
Aug 24th
Aug 24th
“‘What lies over there’ asked the Mole, waving a paw towards...”
— Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in...
— Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in...
Aug 24th
building the perfect language. or not.
Aug 24th
“The breakdown of the political organization of the Roman...”
— Christopher Dawson, Religion...
— Christopher Dawson, Religion...
Aug 24th
“Death Star: An unshielded exhaust port leading directly to...”
— John Scalzi on bad design in...
— John Scalzi on bad design in...
Aug 21st
“My transplant doc says I’m a ‘genuinely nice...”
— Fake Steve
— Fake Steve
Aug 21st
features and featurelessness
Aug 20th
Lessig on GBS
Aug 20th
Core77
Aug 20th
“LOS ANGELES—Executives at Paramount Pictures announced...”
— I for one can’t wait.
— I for one can’t wait.
Aug 19th
Aug 19th
here
Aug 19th
new horizons
Aug 19th
nonsense and neuroscience
Aug 19th
confusion
Aug 19th
my guest post on being an adult soccer fan at...
Aug 19th
“Maureen O’Sullivan, a deception researcher at the University...”
— Margaret Talbot
— Margaret Talbot
Aug 19th
We’re still waiting.
Aug 17th
best pie chart ever, via Dry Creek Chronicles
Aug 16th
The fabulous Cabinet magazine will be sponsoring an...
Aug 15th
“Now, frankly, I don’t know what the idiots have to...”
— David Rothkopf at the Foreign...
— David Rothkopf at the Foreign...
Aug 15th
“Indeed, Greene suggests that the answers may not really...”
— Andrew Bacevich’s...
— Andrew Bacevich’s...
Aug 14th
I nominate me
Aug 14th
the Nation's Favourite Poet
Aug 14th
speaking in barcode
Aug 14th
Microblogging has become too important for...
Aug 14th
war is over, if you tweet
Aug 13th
preciseandtowering:
The original matrices created by...
Aug 13th
“But, above all, anonymity, that shield of all literary...”
— The philosopher Arthur...
— The philosopher Arthur...
Aug 13th
The Road to Success, via Strange Maps: click on the image...
Aug 13th
“The difference between a bookish person and a non-bookish...”
— John C. Wright
— John C. Wright
Aug 13th
the good old days
Aug 12th
recovering your reading mojo
Aug 12th
“Though I am a strong advocate for free thought on all...”
— Charles Darwin, declining the...
— Charles Darwin, declining the...
Aug 12th
translations
Aug 12th
a digression on health care
Aug 11th
the inevitable, part deux
Aug 11th
“‘Just as we are all, potentially, in Adam when he...”
— So glad to see Brian Appleyard...
— So glad to see Brian Appleyard...
Aug 11th
Reviving the Lost Art of Naming the World -...
Aug 11th
Google Voice and you: what it is and how you...
Aug 11th
Age of Reason (on Jacques Barzun) : The New...
Aug 11th
Hummingbirds: on naming the world
Aug 10th
Watch
Aug 10th
the inevitable
Aug 10th
“Anyway, I’m an Angry Agnostic - I don’t believe...”
— Brian Appleyard
— Brian Appleyard
Aug 10th
Watch
Aug 10th
“More than most Westerners, Americans believe — deeply,...”
— Ross Douthat crushes it,...
— Ross Douthat crushes it,...
Aug 10th
In the late ’50s, at the request of the American composer...
Aug 10th
Anak Krakatoa
Aug 9th
“The Yeti became known as the Abominable Snowman, and as the...”
— here
— here
Aug 9th
The largest sailing ship ever built (1902), from a fine NYT...
Aug 9th
The Guilty Vicarage
Aug 9th
“Young men, starting out in life, have often asked me...”
— P. G. Wodehouse, recounting...
— P. G. Wodehouse, recounting...
Aug 9th
“The phantasy, then, which the detective story addict...”
— W. H. Auden, “The Guilty...
— W. H. Auden, “The Guilty...
Aug 8th
change-up
I’ve decided to stop feeding my Text Patterns tweets to this site. If you want to see what...
Aug 8th
textpatterns: Murdoch and "the end of free...
Aug 6th
“In Mr. Tucci, Ms. Streep finds, as in “The Devil Wears...”
— A. O. Scott
— A. O. Scott
Aug 6th
“The recognition that management theory is a sadly neglected...”
— Matthew Stewart in 2006
— Matthew Stewart in 2006
Aug 6th
textpatterns: Why do we use idioms?...
Aug 6th
textpatterns: Deciphering the ancient Indus...
Aug 6th
Jonathan Hoefler: John [Downer] visited my studio, where I...
Aug 6th
textpatterns: "If you can read this, I'm...
Aug 5th
textpatterns: Price wars in the e-book biz?...
Aug 5th
textpatterns: New post: The Franchise Affair:...
Aug 5th
textpatterns: Maybe MS Word isn't so dead...
Aug 4th
textpatterns: Ben Schott on Twitter and...
Aug 4th
textpatterns: @willb Touché!
Aug 4th
textpatterns: @FreddiedeBoer Hmmm . . ....
Aug 4th
textpatterns: Good takedown of a dumb NYT...
Aug 3rd
textpatterns: New post: touchstones:...
Aug 3rd
textpatterns: Another take on the singular...
Aug 3rd
textpatterns: Microsoft Word, RIP:...
Aug 3rd
“One of Sour, Two of Sweet, Three of Strong, Four of Weak....”
— the philosophy of cocktails
— the philosophy of cocktails
Aug 1st
The meter reads “Expired”.
Aug 1st