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(the last sentence makes the whole [painful, I do hope not prescient] thing worthwhile)
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both college classmates, though I knew neither of them back in the day –a lovely memoir
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via WFMU's Beware of the Blog, and a real revelation and inspiration
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Zittrain, Lessig, others –about an hour, and really worth listening to
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via Make: ALL the Episodes of ALL the Series, and arguably ALL you need for an Education. Well, perhaps that's an exaggeration, but these are surely a good start, and perhaps reason enough for Apple TV…
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links to several thoughtful summaries
Kitty kitty
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I’ve taken extravagant pleasure in reading Phillip Lopate’s piece on Emerson in the Harper’s that arrived today. Three quotes that I just can’t bear not to rediffuse:
It is curious that Thoreau goes to a house to say with little preface what he has just read or observed, delivers it in a lump, is quite inattentive to any comment or thought which any of the company offer on the matter, is merely interrupted by it, &, when he has finished his report, departs with precipitation.
and
‘Tis strange, that it is not in vogue to commit hara-kiri as the Japanese do at 60. Nature is so insulting in her hints & notices, does not pull you by the sleeve, but pulls out your teeth, tears off your hair in patches, steals your eyesight, twists your face into an ugly mask, in short, puts all contumelies upon you, without in the least abating your zeal to make a good appearance, and all this at the same time that she is moulding the new figures around you into wonderful beauty which, of course, is only making your plight worse.
But the prize goes to this bit of insight:
A man of 45 does not want to open new accounts of friendship. He has said Kitty kitty long enough.
Can’t resist
Neil Gaiman‘s dogs, Cabal and Lola:
Quite pleased
links for 2010-12-11
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Frederick Wiseman's films, which I've known about forever but haven't seen. Very tempted to buy some
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net critique by Geert Lovink, via if:book
links for 2010-12-10
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(dunno how useful it really is to collect all this stuff, but I suppose time will tell, as usual)
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sez Bryan: "Together, we're watching competing stories of fear being erected and supported." He promises to "return to this story as it shambles along…" and I await with bated xxx
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(a noteworthy summary, best I've seen so far… keep eyes glued to this source)
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Goshes, who can you Trust in the jungles of disinformation? "…it's pretty easy to just make up cables to serve your political agenda. If the Pakistani forgers had been more sophisticated they would have invented quotes or even mocked up fake cables rather than just paraphrasing…"
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(I seem to be gathering up posts that MAKE SENSE, even if I don't necessarily totally agree. I'd already read Hertzberg, Shirky and Winer in the last few hours, and my take on the shemozzle is evolving and articulating thanks to the thoughtful work of various others… still think Hillary Clinton's Jan 2010 comments are among the most apposite) In the antepenultimate para is the typo 'faught' which I declare to be a VALUABLE COINAGE, composed of equal parts 'faugh' and 'fraught', summary interjection and contingency marker, respectively.
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thanks to Bryan Alexander for the pointer"Photoshop for data" it says here
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bloggy-style
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Hillary Clinton's deathless quote from Jan 2010 is required reading
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Cory sez: security theater means never having to say "your sari."
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"I watch my friends root for the attackers and think this is the way wars always begin. The "fighting the good fight" spirit. Let's go over there and show them who we are. Let's make a symbolic statement. By the time the war is underway, we won't remember any of that. We will wonder how we could have been so naive to think that war was something wonderful or glorious…"
Samba
Cached here so I can find it again:
Claro?
(via Gizmodo, so probably you’ve already seen it)
Damn but this is good
Six years ago I was plotting a Last Course in Cross-Cultural Studies in Music, which I taught at Washington and Lee in Jan-April 2005. I was in the habit of collecting my thoughts and findings in “log files” that included bits of copied text, my own ruminations, and lots of outbound links to stuff I found via incessant searching (most of it via Google, but also using other tools then at my fingertips). I had occasion today to glance over the
and was gratified to find myself so adventurously engaged. So many really interesting stems of inquiry and discovery, even with the linkrot that’s inevitable after six years. And so many things I now think about differently, and things I could take up again immediately (if I had some reason to), and so much that’s NEW since 2005, that I’d gleefully incorporate if I was doing CCSinM now (like the incredible resources of YouTube music). Anyway, it’s nice to have a backward glance in which I can take pride.
links for 2010-12-08
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from Library of Congress, and doubtless a bottomless resource for…
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I'd like to know more about the algorithm for "topic distance" but it does bring back fond memories. Whenever I've returned to Stanford I've quickly gotten lost in the vastnesses of new buildings erected since my last residence there in 79-80, and now it seems there's very little to connect me with the 67-72 domicile.