April 2010
54 posts
“Whenever I look at things and think what men think of them,
I laugh like a brook freshly sounding off a rock.” http://bit.ly/9NJsRZ #pessoa
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r/t @Eyoki ~George Szirtes on Picasso and platitudes http://bit.ly/9KOyso “Picasso is a genius draughtsman and a poor painter”
Twitter is like having fairies at the bottom of your garden. http://bit.ly/bj6285 - via @MargaretAtwood
Touch Wood: The Irresistible Delusion of Superstition http://bit.ly/atsKUF via @wildcat2030
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The Data-Driven Life http://nyti.ms/9bJMpk “Humans make errors.We make errors of fact and errors of judgment.We have blind spots ..”
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On A Novel's First Line
“My favourite opening line is from Albert Camus’s The Stranger : “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.”. It’s punchy, colloquial, and disturbing. It also taps out a rhythm for the rest of the book. Another would be from Swann’s Way by Proust: “For a long time I went to sleep early.” It reverses the basic expectation with which you start a novel – to see activity,...
Essays via @blogofinnocence http://bit.ly/b9KZat “where cleverness & sophistication are alien & not very useful to understanding ourselves”
Yoko meshi (Japanese) ‘a meal eaten sideways’,referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language http://bit.ly/aOcujI
Firefox Wants to Be Your Online Identity Portal Too http://bit.ly/dnCWdR “Firefox is going to go head-to-head with Facebook”
RT @thehermitage: “Waldeinsamkeit” (German) = the feeling of being alone in the woods ~ 13 words not found in the English language http: …
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♫ Van Morrison – “Beside You” ~from Astral Weeks (1968) ~ @alapinto ♫ http://blip.fm/~petv3
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The Sound of Neurons
”They emit electrical signals of around 40 hertz, which sound like a buzzing, irritating noise played back as audio files. I used some specialist software to distinguish the signal within the noise - and to produce sound from within each peak that is closer to the frequency of a human voice and therefore more revealing to the ear.
Listening to the results reprocessed at around...
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RT @hyblis: Internet enhancing, not diminishing, the public square http://bit.ly/c0ZpxL via @thandelike
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♫ The Beginning Of The End – Funky Nassau (1971) #funk #soul ♫ http://blip.fm/~pe2e3
“A single mind is the result of interaction between many brains and this does not show up on a fMRI scan” http://bit.ly/bpCntM
RT @TEDJohnMark: Facebook - an identity system for the web via Techtonic Shifts Blog at Newsweek.com. http://bit.ly/9YMksU
How To Nap http://bit.ly/afniab “the further you can lean back, the better, at least in terms of subjective fatigue and reaction times”
RT @novaspivack: Must-read. Do neurons do far more computing than we know? http://bit.ly/cLaDDN — actually it sounds like they are tweeting …
A Marriage Made In Hormones http://bit.ly/c8lqHh “even in happy couples, specific ways of resolving disputes has an impact on health”
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Nicotine Chic: Writers as Smokers http://bit.ly/9lmvt7 via @roundmyskull
♫ Robert Hood – High Plains Drifter ~from his 2003 album Wire To Wire ~nice minimal and ambient techno ♫ http://blip.fm/~p2sbr
Embodied Cognition http://bit.ly/9KSKnr “people who use their bodies in different ways also think differently”
r/t @laughology To scientists, laughter is no joke http://bit.ly/cpaa9v “Laughter above all else is a social thing”
“Everybody in the world is my friend” http://bit.ly/9pdATI Williams Syndrome, Social Fear and Racial Stereotypes
RT @Wildcat2030: “Yesterday, I went to the future and here I am!” - What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory… http:// …
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Indecision-Making And The Art of Choosing - NYT... →
“Do you choose to brush your teeth in the morning? Or do you just do it? Can a habit or custom be a choice? When Iyengar asked Japanese and American college students in Kyoto to record all the choices they made in a day, the Americans included things like brushing their teeth and hitting the snooze button. The Japanese didn’t consider those actions to be choices. The two groups lived...
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? / If I am for myself only, what am I? / If not now - when?” (Talmudic Saying,Mishnah,Abot)
The Dangerous World of Butterflies by Peter Laufer < PopMatters http://bit.ly/bMOn1T #bookreview
Personality characteristics teachers define as creative are the same ones that make their pupils least likeable http://bit.ly/ayw8OO
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♫ The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin – You Know You Know ~ from the album The Inner Mounting Flame, … ♫ http://blip.fm/~oq30e
♫ R.L.Burnside – It’s Bad You Know ~ from his 1998 album; I first heard this on the soundtrack of The Sopranos ♫ http://blip.fm/~oq0fx
♫ Model 500 - Starlight ~ from Juan Atkins’ 1995 album Deep Space ♫ http://blip.fm/~opn6k
for all those whose flights got cancelled today by the Icelandic volcano ~ ♫ David Bowie – Ashes To Ashes ♫ http://blip.fm/~opgdf
listening to "Led Zeppelin - No Quarter - early... →
♫ Led Zeppelin – No Quarter ~ early 1971 studio rehearsal of this song released on album Houses Of The Holy, 1973
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listening to "Jimi Hendrix - 1983... (A Merman I... →
listening to "Canned Heat - On The Road Again" →
♫ Canned Heat – On The Road Again (1968)
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“Here’s my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I...”
– Samuel Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 Dec 1989)
Texts For Nothing (1955)
RT @ettagirl: Frustrated by world’s image of mathematicians, prof stars in erotic film Rites of Love and Math http://bit.ly/9EXZnz via @ …
A Cloud of One’s Own http://bit.ly/dB0Nm1 The true nature of supply and demand via @linuxjournal
RT @StanCarey: “Recording life as it was dissolved by modernity” RT @artnetdotcom Article on the life & times of Henri Cartier-Bresson h …
Charanjit Singh:Synthesizing Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (1982) http://bit.ly/cB2IYn
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A cassette recording of “Ron Hardy from The Music Box (Chicago) some time in the mid-to-late eighties. Quality isn’t great, but as there aren’t too many of his sets around it’s something that’s worth putting up with.”
via Cacophonous Bling
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Part 2 of above mix
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