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“The blood and guts and gore are made using the latest, cutting edge stuffing. It’s a special new micro-bead stuffing that gives the guts and organs a more malleable, tactile effect. It makes it more squidgy.”
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“I didn’t really want to maintain or discover a social network for this use, but then it dawned on me: My photos actually represent a social network, as codepiction describes relations between people even better than explicitly stated ones.”
Monthly Archives: December 2007
links for 2007-12-20
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Amazon says that the purchase is a way of giving thanks to the author that sparked a reading frenzy in children and young adults across the world. Considering how many Harry Potter books were sold through Amazon, the company has a lot to be thankful for.
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“I couldn’t help but dig around and come up with sites that use a similar ID-based syntax for their URLs. The interestingness of the following list of number ones will vary based on your tolerance of the mundane and trivial. (Mine = off the charts.)”
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“The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.”
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a.k.a. “the Sapir-WIMP hypothesis”: The more easily you can talk about a user interface, the more easily you can understand how to manipulate it.
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Byrne visits the New York Times and reflects on technology, democracy, the profit motive, and more.
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“Madonna should love this map, having both gone all British and jewish-mystical. This map, in the style of the London Underground, depicts the Kaballah Tree of Life.”
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Typically, I would never advocate the addition of meat to a sweet cookie, but I’ve always viewed bacon as “the candybar of meats” so I only felt slightly weird about it.
links for 2007-12-19
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“cartoonist/musician Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow, who draws The Secret History of Chicago Music for the Reader) has posted a mercifully concise podcast of deliciously warped holiday fare on the Anthology Recordings Web site.”
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‘I just imagine a mustachioed man in a bowler coming up to a counter, slamming down a card that says, “Your music has lost you my custom.”‘
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There is no one “index” to the “secret history” series, but I’m glad to find some of them on the Reader site; they all seem to link to each other so why not give Muhal Richard Abrams some extra props…
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“informal term for turnips and rutabagas, in the north of England” [via Wikipedia]
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Articles by IU faculty on all manner of subjects as related to food.
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“All these years, he’s been this calm, imperturbable voice reporting the news, and it turns out that this warm unflappable voice has a sense of humor. It’s like finding out that Santa Claus is real.”
WNUR “Jazz” Show, 2007-12-18
(Posted with “backdate”)
Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)
David Holland Quartet: “Conference of the Birds” – Conference of the Birds (ECM)
Karl Berger & David Holland: “Now Is/D’Accord/All Kinds of Time/We Are” – All Kinds of Time (Sackville)
Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow: “Possibilities” – Fly Away Little Bird (Owl)
Cooper-Moore/Assif Tsahar: “Back Porch Chill” – America (Hopscotch)
Trevor Watts/Jamie Harris: “Balladinine” – Ancestry (Entropy Stereo)
Khan Jamal/Johnny Dyani/Pierre Dørge: “MK Speak of the Nation” – Three (Steeplechase)
Eight Bold Souls: “Odyssey” – Last Option (Thrill Jockey)
Ornette Coleman: “Ramblin’” – Change of the Century (Atlantic)
Masada: “Otiot” – Zayin (Seven) (Tzadik)
William Parker Quartet: “Hawaii” – Sound Unity (AUMFidelity)
Hamiet Bluiett and Concept: “Oleo” – Live at Carlos 1 (Just a Memory)
Ellery Eskelin/Han Bennink: “No Pyrrhula, Pyrrhula (= Bullfinch)” – Dissonant Characters (Hatology)
Rob Brown/Lou Grassi Quartet: “A Hatful” – Scratching the Surface (CIMP Records)
Hugh Masekela: “Sharpville” – Grrr (Mercury)
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath: “MRA” – Travelling Somewhere (Cuneiform)
Leo Cuypers: “Alsdat de Olifantstand” – Heavy Days are Here Again (BVHaast/Unheard Music)
links for 2007-12-18
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“an outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number of boomboxes.” … a Christmas caroling party except that the participants don’t sing, but carry the music, with each of the participants playing a separate track.
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What the café was to the early avant-garde,so the mimeograph was to the culture of the early 1960s a low-tech hang-out for the beat generation. This essay will explore one facet that helped define Detroit’s first avant-garde,the Detroit Artists’ Workshop
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“includes assorted correspondence, art, poetry, newspaper clippings, and ephemera related to Cleveland rebel poet, artist and publisher d.a. levy.”
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“a linguistic and etymological study of the major aspects of Dune as they pertain to Middle East, Arabic, and Islam.”
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online edition of out-of-print monograph about Frank Herbert written by publisher Tim O’Reilly
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“[Al-qaeda sites said] Zawahiri would conduct an “open interview” in which user questions could be submitted over the Net. In case Dr. Zawahiri is reading this blog, I thought I’d offer some friendly suggestions, from one Web 2.0 enthusiast to another.”
links for 2007-12-17
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“Scholars Are Falling Into Line to Maneuver Through New Territory: Online Socializing as Academic Discipline”
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animated map of the territory held by North and South, with casualty count. 1 week = 1 second.
links for 2007-12-16
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“The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors. We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content.”
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Interesting for the vigorous legal debate on the ruling in the comments for this post.
links for 2007-12-15
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“(Don’t be afraid to pet the friendly narwhal!)”
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“This map, indicating the varying degrees of ‘blondness’ in Europe, shows how fair hair gets rarer further away from this core area – towards the south, as one intuitively might presume, but also towards the east, west and even towards the north.”
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“It never looks good to be caught Winston Smith-ing it on the Internet, least of all for the American military, which has gotten one black eye after another over its information programs.”
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Use GarageBand 4.1.1
links for 2007-12-14
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“I am a widower living alone in the county in the middle of England Uk. My life has been very varied but my love of motorcycles has remained with me all of my life. ” (… and he’s 80 and has 45,000+ subscribers to his YouTube channel and 96 videos)
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“So was December 7 gonna be another Pearl Harbor? Would he show up? Did we really need to see him, no matter what shape he was in? Was the Family Stone really there?”
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The home of Mudflap Girl
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“The intent of the project is to gather, catalog, and make accessible primary source media resources related to social activism and activist movements in California in the 1960′s and 1970′s.”
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“Systems are seductive.They promise to do a hard job faster, better, and more easily than you could do it by yourself.But if you set up a system, you are likely to find your time and effort now being consumed in the care and feeding of the system itself.”
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“For over a decade,Gino Gambarota has stood sentry over the meat slicer in his white butcher’s apron and paper-boat hat. The chief of corned beef always flashes a wicked grin under his bushy walrus like mustache. It’s as if he’s challenging you to order.”
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“At least one blogger was able to laugh the bizarre selection away with a word-of-the-year twofer. ” ‘W00t’ is what locavores type to each other when they finally find the locally grown buttered radishes they had been craving,” Daylife joked.”
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“Since taking delivery of my pen I have been very happy with the quality of ink deposition on the various types of paper that I have used.”
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“The goal is to bring these two paradigms together and leverage the creativity and enthusiasm that’s occurring online to help create new ways for youth to become engaged citizens. Libraries have an opportunity to step in and facilitate this.”
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“It’s not just about Young’s opinions. It is about marshaling the legacy of one of the greatest movements for social justice in our nation’s history to smear the lone black candidate in the race with derogatory and spurious claims.”
links for 2007-12-13
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“a common-sense approach to waste prevention, relying on facts/figures rather than simply rising and falling with the tides of public opinion;written in a concise, easy-to-read style that mixes a dollop of entertainment with its informational content.”
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“Color film about a Chicago deli on Grand Ave. famous for the owner’s tempermental antics. Jerry Meyers is known for yelling at his customers for split-second delays in ordering and frequently takes indecisive customers back outside to look at the menu.”
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“This page is an attempt to document every item mentioned in classic Warner Bros. cartoons (from 1929-1964) that is associated with the ACME name.”
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“Curious, I hatched a plan. I would go to some of the hardest-to-penetrate restaurants in New York armed with little more than an empty stomach, an iron-clad willingness to be humiliated, and a fistful of dough.”
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‘He argues that talk radio provides what sociologist Ray Oldenburg called a “third place,” in contrast to home and work, a usually sex-segregated place where men “engage in male camaraderie.”‘
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“EVANSTON, Ill. – They stand outside in the cold the night before exams, wearing jeans and sweats or just PJs. And at 9 p.m. on the dot, they partake in one minute’s worth of silliness for the sake of their sanity. They scrEAAAAAMMMMMMMM!!!”
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“The Clinton campaign email did not spell out Obama’s “shortcomings, inconsistencies or misstatements,” but other Democratic activists have quietly received messages from Clinton allies pointing in the likely direction.”
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“A new breed of American small batch distiller is staking a claim to the sugar cane-based potable.”