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Why Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin shared her breast-cancer diagnosis
Why Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin shared her breast-cancer diagnosis
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poisonville: The evolution of riot gear. (NYT)
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“Expecting undergraduates to follow the path of educational attainment of a professor is a bit like expecting an introductory finance class in personal or household money management to become millionaires.”
“Expecting undergraduates to follow the path of educational attainment of a professor is a bit like expecting an introductory finance class in personal or household money management to become millionaires.” marathonpacks: David Cooper Moore’s “media literacy” blog is full of great insight. Particularly enjoyed this post.
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It seems more pressing to invent possible relations with our neighbors in the present than to bet on happier tomorrows. Nicholas Bourriaud. Currently hating on RA. Today’s required reading: “The Fall of Relational Aesthetics,” Andrew Russeth for the New York Observer. (via jenlindblad)
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During the past two years, the films of Andrei Tarkovsky have quietly come online, giving viewers the chance to encounter the Soviet director’s great body of work. If you’re not familiar with Tarkovsky, it’s worth mentioning that Ingmar Bergman considered him his favorite director, and Akira Kurosawa once said, “Every cut from his films is…
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towerofsleep: danhurray: This December I get to learn something completely foreign to me. Hurraaaayyyyyyy I am interested in this kind of philosophy, which is why I joined an Object-oriented Ontology reading group (thanks, Dan!), but I am mainly reblogging this because the cover art is so amazing.
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Stowe Boyd: No Flow In The Coffee Shop, Please!
Stowe Boyd: No Flow In The Coffee Shop, Please! Nick Bilton finds that coffee shops are prohibiting computers (and e-readers): Nick Bilton, No E-Books Allowed in This Establishment A few weeks ago I decided to mosey over to a local Manhattan coffee shop for an afternoon cappuccino. After placing my order I sat down at…
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And if you work hard, and you treat people well, and you do a thing not for the sake of fame or fortune but for the sake of the thing itself, and if you continue to do this, if you persist, you will begin to shape your little corner of the world, and when you…
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The uselessness of art makes any spending on it especially potent: buying a yacht is a tiny bit like buying a rowboat, and so retains a taint of practicality, but buying a great Picasso is like no other spending. Why Is Art So Damned Expensive? – The Daily Beast
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I don’t want to say I have the exact answers. As I paced the track in prison, I started thinking these things through. One thing I know from experience is the devil is in the language, the devil is in the details. I have a 30,000-foot analysis of these things. I do have some specific…