November 11, 2009
“ Remembrance Day always makes me ruminative about the place of history in our current consciences, because it is one of the few holidays where we are explicitly told, ‘listen you have to remember this thing that happened ok’ and, one, people pay attention, two, there is nothing jamming the line like bbq’s or parties or football games or chocolate eggs or presents. History: You should give a shit, who knew.
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Kate Beaton: Hark! A Vagrant - Dry Matches
November 1, 2009
“ There’s a dangerous group of anti-copyright activists out there who pose a clear and present danger to the future of authors and publishing. They have no respect for property or laws. What’s more, they’re powerful and organized, and have the ears of lawmakers and the press. I’m speaking, of course, of the legal departments at ebook publishers.
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October 22, 2009
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October 8, 2009
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October 6, 2009
“ If we can appropriate feminism to sell mascara, then surely we failed as NPO marketers if we can’t appropriate it to sell women’s causes.
Comments In what sounds like a plot from an animated sci-fi film, I’ve just found a remarkable study where Japanese researchers put a Yoga Master in a brain scanner and fired lasers at him because he claimed not to be able to feel pain while meditating.
(HT @GeorgeDvorsky)
Randall Munroe, as usual, with an interesting book find. (See bottom of post for link to free online version.)
We need something like this with math, too, though I think late 19th centruty/early 20th century texts came close. (Thinking Courant.)
October 1, 2009


