February 2011
42 posts
“The online repository becomes the site of the self — the way in which the...”
– marginal utility annex: personal brand as neoliberal subjectivity, fashion industry as modeling circuit for development of such a self
“We have made an error, from which we need to backtrack, that can be summed up by...”
– interfluidity » The overpayers’ club
“The people who work at and run NASA are not cynical, but the charade of manned...”
– A Rocket To Nowhere
I think the same critique applies to the US military.
Egyptian Army Opens Fires on Coptic Christians in... →
Here’s the glorious Egyptian army, protector of the people, at work. (via @pegobry)
“Father Hemanot Ava Bishoy said the army fired live ammunition and RPGs...”
– Egyptian Armed Forces Fire At Christian Monasteries, 19 Injured
If this is accurate, then the new, rebranded Egyptian junta (NOW WITH 11% MORE PEOPLE POWER!) is off to a shoddy start.
“America, you have built your house at the foot of a volcano. That volcano is now...”
– If Not Now, When? - NYTimes.com
via IOZ
I don’t know quite what to say. This is an odd sort of sublime.
“what Google knows and many parents don’t know is that a person’s...”
– Bob Bowdon: Why Has Google Been Collecting Kids’ Social Security Numbers Under the Guise of an Art Contest?
“‘I don’t own a computer, have no idea how to work one,’ Woody Allen told an...”
– LRB · Jim Holt · Smarter, Happier, More Productive (via ayjay)
Woody Allen is a monster. He hasn’t made a good movie since email was invented, which makes him a dubious exemplar for creative technophobia.
Naturally, someone will say here “oh, but did you see [Match Point or...
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Millman's Shakesblog: First Thing We Do, Let's... →
millmans-shakesblog:
I’m sorry but are these guys serious?
Shakespeare was only possible because there were “paywalls” around the theatres, and therefore we must defend our absurdly lopsided intellectual property regime?
Are Turow et al unaware that Shakespeare never published any of his work in his lifetime?…
“THE HULK’S NEAR-RAPE
Then Marvel’s Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter writes a story...”
– Perry Moore - Hero
My high school friend Perry Moore died yesterday. Thanks to his admirable success in the movie business, it is tabloid news.
But beyond all the SEO-laden reports of his death, his website includes this great list of gay comic book characters and their ignominious treatment at...
“The thing that worries me about the plan, like the conservative plan to cut...”
– “This country has deinstitutionalized before” : The Battle for Reducing Incarceration, Mitch Daniels and Conservatives, and When Brute Force Fails. « Rortybomb
With public policy, betting on the worst-of-both-worlds outcome is usually pretty safe.
“Suppose that it is true that we’re poorer than we’d anticipated, that past...”
– interfluidity » On Tyler Cowen’s “Great Stagnation”
I like Steve Randy Waldman the way some people like Tyler Cowen.
“I think of government, education, health care, and finance collectively as the...”
– interfluidity » On Tyler Cowen’s “Great Stagnation”
“My living arrangement suits my parents fine, because when we run out of other...”
– Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Touch Me: A Column About Massage.
I’m really enjoying Christy Vannoy’s column. This is a lovely, and subtly profound, passage about family.
“Throughout Barr’s research, though, the coder he worked with worried about...”
– How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price
“There are two ways to describe Annie Proulx’s memoir, “Bird Cloud,” an account...”
– Annie Proulx’s ‘Bird Cloud,’ on Her Wyoming Adventures - Review - NYTimes.com
Ouch.
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“I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a...”
– Edmund Burke, as quoted by Daniel Larison.
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“The Arabs are like a bride emerging on her wedding day and many people are...”
– Agence Global - Article
Right. Because describing the Arabs as a “bride,” with all its connotations, doesn’t perpetuate “Orientalist romanticism and racism.”
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“Soon after Mr. Mardini’s first tentative steps, committee members were...”
– Volunteers Work to Keep Order in Chaos of Egypt - NYTimes.com
Never underestimate what people will do once it’s clear that nobody else is going to do it.
