January 2008
14 posts
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Insomnia
These past few weeks have found me under the sleepless influence of insomnia for the first time in my life. It’s weird. Right now I’m up reading the economist, watching New York Times videos on cooking, and writing the beginnings of a few letters.
I’m not sure what the problem is, either. I want to fall asleep, and I’m tired as heck, but my brain keeps putting me in...
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people...”
– American Pastoral, by Philip Roth, page 35. Talk about skepticism…
“A wiki set up for the project directs Anonymous members to download and use...”
– LOL, waste black ink! I used to do that to fight back against fax spammers! yeah, go gettem guys! War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology — There Can Be Only One | Threat Level from Wired.com
“Now Brooklyn is coming back with a vengeance, though it is not the borough of...”
– Historical trivia about Brooklyn. My love for the funky history of brooklyn and NYC grows daily. Remembering a time before cities’ decline - International Herald Tribune
“I’d like to shove that in his knooks and crannies”
– British slang
“Study Suggests That Amputee Holds an Unfair Advantage”
– The same thing will one day soon be said of computer chips improving memory in our brain, or computer assisted vision, whateves (which is all going to be awesome!) Study Suggests That Amputee Holds an Unfair Advantage - New York Times
Flickr's best.
I have a fascination with finding ways to find the best stuff on Flickr, and yesterday I came up with another method: Search for an artsy film, like Portra 160VC or BW400CN or Fuji NPH, then sort by interestingness. I found some good film suggestions on photo.net.
Glassbooth - Quiz to help you choose best 2008... →
interesting (I suspected I’d be aligned with a nearly no-name candidate, and I was…)
“The real problem is that the firm - the corporation, as the fundamental...”
– Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab
