January 2010
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1/125 News
In case you hadn’t noticed, I do a collaborative blogamathing with Karl called 1/125. We post excellent photographs that we find online, we talk about photobooks we’re reading and are generally insightful, perceptive, and dashingly handsome. Or something.
We’ve got a new domain, (http://one125.net) and we’re celebrating that — and the fact that we’ve made it...
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Pro tip for photo newbs
Ken Rockwell’s website is a lot like Fox News. Both are aimed at two audiences:
People who know how to separate the facts from the deliberately outrageous opinions and the total horseshit, and enjoy doing so.
People who don’t know how to separate those things, and take it all in as fact.
I don’t want everyone to stop reading Rockwell’s website, but I do want group 2 to...
Latitude debate
kukkurovaca: Of course, this could all be demonstrated empirically if someone had a densitometer and a bunch of free time. : )
Karl Gunnarsson: but all our free time is spent arguing on the internet ; )
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Debrief of "Hacks and Hackers" talk
kukkurovaca: I eventually reached the conclusion that I actually, actively loathe design.
Karl Gunnarsson: really?
Karl Gunnarsson: I love design
Karl Gunnarsson: I just hate design when it's about tarting things up
kukkurovaca: Yes. Or at least I believe that, like women, it should be kept in its place.
kukkurovaca: Wow, I love that we both went sexist.
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The Fortunate Fall
I tweeted about this already, but I felt saying a bit more about the subject:
This popped up recently on the tor.com RSS feed, and it reminded me of a book which I love but which I seldom have opportunity to talk about, because so few people have read the damn thing:
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58595
It’s called The Fortunate Fall, and...
stuffparty:
kukkurovaca:
stuffparty:
I just can’t resist the charms of someone who first tells someone he disagrees with to emigrate to a country where “homosexuals are welcome” but who, upon being accused of lacking respect for other people, says that he knows a lot of “queer persons”.
It really sucks that straight people can’t say “queer” without sounding like homophobes or 19th-century...
stuffparty:
I just can’t resist the charms of someone who first tells someone he disagrees with to emigrate to a country where “homosexuals are welcome” but who, upon being accused of lacking respect for other people, says that he knows a lot of “queer persons”.
It really sucks that straight people can’t say “queer” without sounding like homophobes or 19th-century dandies. Or...
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Reading List: a Notional Video Game
Here’s an idea for a video game:
You play as the tutor or mentor to the heir to an empire. It can be an historical empire, or a fantasy empire, but if it’s a fantasy empire, the protagonist character should be from our world, and have access to our culture.
The primary gameplay mechanic would be the selection of a series of reading lists for the future king. Your choices have...
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Quotation marks
When I was in about the 5th grade, I was thoroughly convinced that single quotation marks were different from double quotation marks, in that single quotation marks were specific to sarcastic or ironic use — that is, “scare quotes.” (Although I don’t think I knew the term “scare quotes” at the time.)
This belief rather baffled my teacher, and I was baffled in...
“During this Age of Reason it is particularly difficult, on intellectual grounds,...”
– Experimental Theology: The Snake Handling Churches of Appalachia: Part 2, Religious Experience
about that gallup poll
stuffparty:
inthefade:
Have more faith in humanity than that, people.
The poll does not reveal that Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the Pope.
The poll says that out of 1,025 Americans over the age of 18 polled, 2% of them admired Glen Beck more than any other male. Another 2% admire the Pope more than any other male.
The only way one can construe from this data that...