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Justin EH Smith “…And there they were, standing to their ankles in water, pants down, holding their members like onanistic fools. They begged her forgiveness, rushed out of the yurt, back to Moscow, and made a concerted effort, in writing up the report
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mashup with Google Maps
Monthly Archives: March 2007
links for 2007-03-05
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illustrations from the 1781 ‘Découverte Australe par un Homme Volant, ou Le Dédale Français’
links for 2007-03-04
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download the pdf… and subscribe to keep it going
Ghosts
My continuing immersion in the seemingly-bottomless project of scanning negatives from former lives probably sensitizes me to ruminations on the past. This bit, the opening sentences of John Lahr’s review of J.M. Barrie and Tom Stoppard plays seems to have been written with my own obsessions in mind:
Can we agree that we’re all haunted? The ghost world is part of our world. We carry within us the good and the bad, the spoken and the unspoken imperatives of our missing loved ones. As children, we are dreamed up by our parents; as adults, when our parents die we dream them up in turn. Conversations rarely stop at the grave.
(New Yorker March 5 2007 pg 92)
Many of the people in the ghost-images I’m rediscovering are lost in the present (that is, I’ve lost track of them –they probably sail on, and now and again I’m able to reconnect with their current incarnations), but they’re certainly as real to me now, seen via Photoshop and Flickr, as they were then. Maybe even realer.
links for 2007-03-02
Ray’s song
ok, so the video is 14:33, but it’s an Important Cultural Document: Ray talks about the origins and consequences of his viral tune I’m about to whip somebody’s ass. The SportsRacer remixes are a whole other dimension or two.
links for 2007-03-01
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“…explore complex flow scenarios represented as Sankey diagrams. the system provides an overview of the flow graph & allows users to zoom in & explore details on demand…”
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I’m still considering how I might use this, and whether it’s adaptable as an INPUT device for JSON that I might wish to create (e.g., if the dates are configurable to suit historical entries)
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“…an RSS to Timeline translator. Using it, any RSS or Atom feed will be translated to JSON/Timeline format”