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Conclusions Here I’d like to list a few thoughts emerged during the workshop. First of all, we realized that Calibre’s “Edit Book” function is a great tool for quickly prototyping ideas as EPUB files, thanks to its advanced WYSIWYG editor with syntax highlight and the possibility to directly replace images and other files. The development…
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kenyatta: rafaelfajardo: where is this from? rafaelfajardo it’s from a Channel 4 Chris Marker doc series on the Greek connection to modern Western culture called The Owl’s Legacy (the Onassis Foundation commissioners were so offended that it never made it to broadcast in Greece.) This is from his interview with Cornelius Castoriadis. There are download links for the…
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vjeranski: Felix Gonzales-Torres, Untitled, 1991
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shrinkrants: lesstalkmoreillustration: WRDBNR wrdbnr Who said, “It is the copying that originates.”?
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. Jean-Luc Godard (via kadrey)
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smartercities: Urban Farmers Say It’s Time They Got Their Own Research Farms Whitney Pipkin, npr.org About 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, and more and more of us are growing food in cities as well. But where’s an urban farmer to turn for a soil test or when pests infiltrate the fruit…
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Vonnegut’s letter to a book-burner
mostlysignssomeportents: In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut learned that Charles McCarthy, head of the school board that governed Drake High School in North Dakota, had burned 32 copies of Slaughterhouse-Five in the school furnace, offended by the book’s “obscene language.” Vonnegut wrote a private letter to McCarthy, a heartfelt, low-key, scathing recrimination that could be repurposed for…
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nprbooks: Neal Stephenson can be a divisive writer – his science is, indeed, merciless, but some readers feel it can overwhelm his storytelling. Our reviewer Jason Sheehan has some choice thoughts: “The moon blew up with no warning and with no apparent reason.” That’s the beginning of Neal Stephenson’s newest epic,Seveneves. And in terms of…
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Engineering a Better Future with Neal Stephenson
davidnaimon: Listen in to my nearly hour-long chat with Neal Stephenson whose latest book is Seveneves. Our conversation touched on so many great topics: why women are better equipped to survive long-term in space, why so many SFF novels and films create humanoids with race-based character traits and the limitations of this, advances in epigenetics…