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The Lonely Road « Broken Light: A Photography Collective
Photo taken by Josefine, a swedish photography student currently based out of Los Angeles. The reason she decided to pursue photography full time is because she saw the impact pictures can have on people, both by looking at them, and making them… via The Lonely Road « Broken Light: A Photography…
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Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier
Catching the morning sun. | garyschollmeier.
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The uncanny valley of Internet advertising: Why do creepy targeted ads follow me everywhere I go on the Web? – Slate Magazine
If you ask an Internet ad guy to defend himself—to explain why you, dear Web surfer, should feel comfortable letting him serve you ads based on everything you do online—you’ll likely hear two arguments. First, he’ll tell you that targeted ads are simply the cost of doing business on the…
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Textimony 20120824
If you are preparing to expend a great deal of energy opening something up, make sure there even is a lid on it in the first place.
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Textimony 20120822
We try & are tried; harm & are harmed; help & are helped. Not having THE ANSWER for all time, we embrace historic solutions for the time being. Thus we strive . Related articles If we can refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start…
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One thing was missing (You)…. « Fading M
One thing was missing (You)…. « Fading Meta http://ow.ly/ddnis
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Textimony 20120821
“Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.” – Virgil “Love, and then what you will, do.” -St. Augustine
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Romney, Ryan, and The Devil’s Budget: Will America Keep Its Soul?
Budgets are moral documents. National, state, and local budgets are commitments about where and how to carry out the work of America’s soul, or to abandon it. A national budget that abandons the Public and the freedoms it gives us is selling America’s very soul. Such a budget is the…
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The Ridiculous Rise of Ayn Rand – The Conversation – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Continuing the non-discussion about Ayn Rand and her unfortunate influence: Right-wing think tanks can have Rand (even if she had little use for them). In the academy, she is a nonperson. Her theories are works of fiction. Her works of fiction are theories, and bad ones at that. Should the…
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More notes from Bemis Woods…and Speeder
More notes from Bemis Woods…and Speeder Bikes « sittinginthewoods http://ow.ly/dc22X
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Garbage and Gravitas Continued
I would like to thank my good brother & cherished cousin Carl Beck Sachs for this longer quote from Adorno which really nicely situates the article on Ayn Rand that I posted a while ago. I think it really speaks to how pop culture makes us okay with a kind…
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Afraid of the Dark and Loving It: Guillermo del Toro’s Idol, H.P. Lovecraft – Fandor – Essential films. Instantly!
The life and work of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, which includes hugely influential stories like “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu” – are treated by his acolytes like the stuff of cult lore. Lovecraft’s xenophobia and propensity for clunky, adjective-heavy descriptions of “unknowable” Gods and monsters make…
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Carl Elliott – How to be an Academic Failure: A Guide for Beginners
How to be an academic failure? Let me count the ways. You can become a disgruntled graduate student. You can become a burned-out administrator, perhaps an associate dean. You can become an aging, solitary hermit, isolated in your own department, or you can become a media pundit, sought out by…
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millipede love is mysterious and wild « sittinginthewoods
A new blog from a good brother & cherished cousin, Will Hudson. Will is one of my favorite poets and quick becoming one of my favorite environmentalists. There is an intrinsic value in the boundless wilderness and the complex and varied interactions that characterize and sustain the land. There is…
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