August 2011
69 posts
“To grow up in the South is to be fed a steady diet of grits and ghost stories....”
– Paris Review – Southern Gothic, Margaret Eby (via ayjay)
I can’t resist the opportunity to drop that Flannery O’Connor quip: “Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be...
“If Ron Paul were to win every single primary on next year’s Super Tuesday, the...”
– Why the American media hate and fear Ron Paul – Telegraph Blogs
Sasa na Milele, Tanzanian gospel
A brother of a...
WatchThe Nauseator
“If you feel that Catholicism or Christianity or religion is not represented, by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via wesleyhill)
mwfrost: Sounds great, but can I get this as an animated gif?
Yes
(and there goes any hope of being admitted to the Writer’s Workshop)
(via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
[Edited to include David’s caption.]
“If you feel that Catholicism or Christianity or religion is not represented, by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via wesleyhill)
Sounds great, but can I get this as an animated gif?
“My friends: This is how society changes. Not with a cataclysmic coup, but with...”
– What’s The Difference Between a Sack Lunch & a Recently Beating Heart? « FreeRangeKids
“Unlike the other prefects — I can still see their dour expressions, pale...”
– This excerpt from a 2002 article works best if you don’t know John Mellor’s stage name.
Also, British boarding school. Ew.
“Laser, ink-jet, double-sided, color, black-and-white—the future of technology is...”
– New Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I’m Thinking Printers’ | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
“The Incarnation, the coming of Christ in the form of a servant who cannot be...”
– W. H. Auden, The Dyer’s Hand (via ayjay)
“Of course, now that Arabic is the key language for career advancement in places...”
– Why Arabic is Terrific
It’s great to wake up to a new idlewords.com post.
PEG on Dropbox
Dropbox is the best service in the world for storing and syncing files. But that’s little use in a world where “files” are increasingly meaningless.
That’s Pascal’s admission that Dropbox’s “magic economics” might not be a sure thing after all. And I agree that files are becoming less important. After all, if Apple is trying to kill the entire...
Titus Andronicus: “A More Perfect...
“It’s best to do one thing really, really well”
– Google’s statement of corporate philosophy, 2001
Growing Up Google
(via pegobry)
The 2011 update:
“Now, please don’t pile on for him because of the tragic element in these...”
– Don’t fall for the Krugman hoax | Campaign 2012
David Freddoso makes a very grown-up point here. Taking offense at someone else’s supposed insensitivity to tragedy is among the cheapest forms of ginned-up outrage available.
“If half of the American people don’t pay income taxes, then we are halfway...”
– Tax poor people: Republicans want the IRS to nail “lucky duckies.” - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine
“Today’s Team Blue dethroning of a tinpot dictator lowers the bar for...”
– Libya, End Zone Taunting, and the Success Curse - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Matt Welch, via Will Wilkinson.
WatchWatch out, baby boomers. We Gen Xers are learning how to force-feed our cultural fixations to the next generation, too.
“Of course, Wallace’s slangy approachability was part of his appeal, and these...”
– Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace - NYTimes.com
“…once the fighting is over, he plans to continue his pre-revolutionary...”
– http://mg.co.za/article/2011-08-20-the-irish-teen-who-tracks-and-kills-gaddafis-snipers
