December 2009
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“So if DRM doesn’t stop people from copying books, what does it do? What it does...”
– Cory Doctorow nails it again.
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Government Gravity/Amusement Initiative (News I... →
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, announced a controversial new initiative today in relation to the alleged complicity in torture of British officials and politicians. The scheme, provisionally labelled the Gravity/Amusement Jettisoning Project, will attempt to persuade the judiciary and the general public not to ask further awkward questions.
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2D Goggles: Story Report →
If you aren’t reading 2D Goggles anyway, you should start. But almost even more fun for me right now, as I finish my second book, is the story report on the next section… “distracting B Story Option”… Oh, God, yes. I know that one…
Seriously. Go. Be made happy.
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unHaiku
In the interests of demonstrating that not everyone is a poet, here’s a not-really haiku which I threw out a few years back in response to … well, you’ll see.
I’m really, really not a poet.
Haiku is quite interesting as a form; it’s supposed to have all kinds of stuff in it - seasonal and natural component, etc etc. It’s not just about 5/7/5.
It’s also...
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We are not all...
So far this morning, tumblr has informed me that we are all lost, we are all lonely, and we are all poets.
It’s possible that in some existential sense, we are all lost. You could argue that the rump end of the Enlightenment Project has left us without gods or unsullied myths, bereft of comforting illusions and yet unable to stand up in the empty universe and declare that we are still what...
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Why DRM is ass →
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Audrey
Most people see Audrey Hepburn and remember that movie. The women I know generally also believe she’s one of the most beautiful people ever.
I don’t really have that reaction. All I can think is that she’s one of the most delicate, porcelain-ish people I’ve ever seen, and I’m not sure that’s as attractive as everyone makes out - but more importantly:...
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Jawas take Dubai, Millenium Falcon also sighted →
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“Why would we voluntarily increase our reliance on expensive, scarce wireless...”
– Cory Doctorow, writing about streaming vs. stored media, aptly sums up why cloud-based ebook readers won’t solve the publishing industry’s problems just yet.
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“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string...”
– Alberto Manguel pithia: libraryland (via madwhit)
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Ridiculously awesome barbeque of awesomeness! →
You cannot possibly imagine that this needs further description.
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News I Made Up... →
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WatchThe wave of the future.
Arf.
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Shave Everywhere. →
It’s the music video (accessed through the main menu) which is significantly important here.
Rated H for hilarious.
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This Dress →
This dress completely reminds me of the crazy ferrofluid gunk.
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"Old-Fashioned Policing Skills" →
That’s a bit more like it. And it has to be said, I’ve seen old-fashioned police-wrangling skills practiced by seasoned protestors, as well; setting police officers at ease, talking them through a spontaneous public publicity event and making them feel the whole thing will be okay. It’s worth a lot more than shouting. Favourite quote from that day:
“Well, sir, you’re...
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How to say 'no' with pie-charts →
I nearly died of the laughing. Make sure you get to the last pie-chart.
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tesslynch:
allman bros. — midnight rider (live)
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Red Tape Killing Music →
This whole CCTV lace-curtain NIMBYish prudish comstocking thing has got to stop. Our government is obsessed with making the whole world beige.
Save Burlesque. Save Live Music.
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“I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned...”
– Nerval (translated, from Aurélia)
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“Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and...”
– Jean Baudrillard
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Second Impressions
tumblr - day one (1)
Goodness me. You follow a few people who were posting pictures of dogs earlier and suddenly your dashboard stream takes on the surprising aspect of a strip show. How remarkable…
A very high quality strip show, it must be said.
But still a bit of a startler.
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First Impressions
tumblr - day one (1)
Wow. So this place is to photographers and fashion folk what Twitter is to comedians and writers. I feel completely embarrassed putting my photos up, but at the same time, when in Rome etc.
I’m a writer, people. I do words. I can scrape by in visual media and I can visualise a scene. But really, this is like asking me to sing.
Do not, ever, ask me to sing. My singing...
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