May 2012
23 posts
“LIke the sculptor, who can never fashion a hair or a thread in marble, the...”
– C. E. Montague, A Writer’s Notes on his Trade, from the essay ‘Words, Words, Words’, 1930
“The anthropologist Keith Hart once told me a story about his brother, who in the...”
– Highlighted by Martin McClellan in Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
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“If only the next people who decided to have a war would stay home and make a...”
– Eve Babitz, LA Woman, 1982
“In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the...”
– John Scalzi explains to ignorant white guys all about being a white guy and what it means in this world. Nicely done. Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever
Finished reading Music: What Happened? by Miller,... →
If you’re a music completist or a Scott Miller (Game Theory / Loud Family) fan, then it’s a must read, but you probably already have. It’s enjoyable in the sense that talking to somebody who thinks deeply about music is enjoyable. At times it all seems like total bullshit, but when he’s right in alignment with your own thoughts, it’s like magic. The cover is...
“I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way...”
– Highlighted by Martin McClellan in Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
April 2012
27 posts
Happy Magic Fun Time: On capitalization →
I’m a proponent of the little-i internet, much like I’m a proponent of the little-s sewer, little-t telephone, or little-e electricity.
hmft:
The internet is no longer a proper noun. Ministers of the semantic faith may disagree, expressing that the web is everywhere and that the internet is a specific proper thing. I argue that, in fact, the web and the internet have come to be...
“When people are trying to be sensitive about race but they don’t know what...”
– Lindy West on ‘Hipster Racism’.
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
“To the shock of most sentient beings, Facts died Wednesday, April 18, after a...”
– Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 - chicagotribune.com
“Let us put an end to Geek Pride. It is time to be done with it.”
– Acerbic, spot-on, hilarious.
Nick Mamatas - Let us put an end to Geek Pride (via @bymattruff)
“I understood this to be the price of Razr-clinging, and it was a price worth...”
– Eli Sanders’ love letter to his Motorola Razr, in use for nearly six years.
Farewell, Sweet Razr | Slog
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Readability and time-shifting
Readability is problematic to me. I tried to put it into words previously, before the whole thing blew up when Gruber called them scumbags, but I was swimming around the point. More directly:
Readability is not like the Betamax (as Mike D posits) for one simple reason: Readability went from being a content time-shifter (legitimate, see Instapaper, see Betamax) to becoming de facto paid content...
