July 2009
153 posts
Christine Huang: Can You Fall In Love With Your... →
Just wrote a wacked out thought piece on 2-D Love/objectophilia/social surrogacy hypothesis… I think what I was trying to get at was the importance in drawing a distinction between the relationships made with objects and avatars and real life, two-way relationships - ones that require understanding; compassion; compromise. it seems that as we’re continuing to find new, more...
a conundrum.
guys…i think i want out of the whisper chain!
i’m slowly realizing that the time I spend sharing great stories, links, news, etc everyday… is eating up the minutes (nay, hours!) I could (and should) be using to create great stories, links, and other content. that’s a problem because i enjoy sharing ideas/stories - and value and depend on the sharing others do with me.
i...
A cop, a Harvard professor, and the President walk... →
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens
“Actually, this is our favorite line:
“In the winter time it’s the frozen...”
– Sarah Palin’s Gradual Descent Into Incoherency - Gawker (via nickdouglas)
Watchmerlin:
Charlie Rose - David Foster Wallace on footnotes
I have got news for you: coming on a television show stimulates your What Am I Gonna Look Like? gland like no other experience.
Love that guy.
“Detroit. Where just about everything cool originated. As angry as one gets...”
– Anthony Bourdain’s Great Blog on Travel Channel
“In Japan the fetishistic love for two-dimensional characters is enough of a...”
– Sad, pathetic, perverse… the unsettling aspects of this phenomenon are easy to spot. But there’s something poignantly, idealistically selfless about 2-D Love. The willingness to love without even the potential of reciprocity; a love (and lover) with no demands, no expectations…...
Advocacy Fridays
I counter this with this. The end.
The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. - By Richard... →
Nice summary of the complexities of the Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest.
Web Sites from the '90s (The Daily Beast) →
HA! I actually think the old NASA site is pretty on-brand
Did you know Newton’s scientific papers were written in Latin? Whatta tool.
