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really worth your time: "…the rise of Oncorhynchus mykiss contains a bizarre and fascinating cache of insights into human motivations and misunderstandings… the rainbow trout is –like corn– both biological instantiation and evolving allegory for our complex relationship with nature, our misguided interventions, and their unintended consequences…"
Fragments found while cleaning the desk
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A couple of haiku inspired by mass media triumphalism of a year or more ago (just how long ago unclear, desk stratigraphy being undated and undatable), but sure to be relevant again before long:
moral certitude
inspires the cannon fodder
waving flags: Huzzah!!another martyr
ours or theirs: keep careful count
a winner someday
links for 2010-04-30
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(new incarnation of the site, most welcome)
links for 2010-04-29
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(via Bryan Alexander… and might be an effective presentation device for various of my photographic projects, but the output IS Flash swf, so there's an iPad limitation to worry about)
The camera’s eye
I spend a lot of time looking at photographs, what with my own digitization projects and my wanderings in photographic history. The frame centers the viewer’s attention on details, and allows the photographer to express an aesthetic of composition. Sometimes one finds delicious bits within photographs. Here’s one from this morning’s Shorpy posting:
links for 2010-04-28
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shooting fish in a barrel, delightfully
links for 2010-04-26
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another take… and I realize that I got Off The Bus in the early 1970s
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oh my does it take me back… and reminds me of all I never quite grasped
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Considering dimensions of the current malaise: "angry tribalism" sure does sum it up well, and 'agnotology' ("study of the manufacture of ignorance" –see Wikipedia article) is a word whose time has surely arrived
links for 2010-04-13
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starts with Monticello, but quickly moves on to Vermont, San Francisco, other places …and moots the delicious term "landscape hermeneutics"
Library Thing
A few years ago (well, in September 2005, when I was newly retired and Library Thing was brand new) I discovered Library Thing, a service that allows you to catalog your library (entering books by ISBN, title, whatever)… says the Wikipedia entry, “a social cataloging web application for storing and sharing personal library catalogs and book lists.” I messed with it a bit and then got ummmm distracted by some other shiny thing. I happened to take a look again the other day, and discovered that they offer (for $15) a USB scanning device called CueCat. Plug it in and swipe it over an ISBN bar code and **PRESTO** the book is looked up (at Amazon or Library of Congress, your choice) and entered into your Library Thing database. In just a few minutes I scanned in a shelf of books, typing in the ISBN if there was no barcode, and searching by title if the book was too old to sport an ISBN. You can eyeball the current state of the project (200 books in, the very tip of the proverbial). Just what I’m going to DO with this is a bit less clear, but possibilities and uses will doubtless emerge to declare themselves.
links for 2010-04-07
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tip of an iceberg, I hope