October 2009
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“Mixed company moderates; like-minded company polarizes. Heterogeneous...”
– The best lines from and in-a-nutshell gist of The Big Sort by Bill Bishop.
Oct 30th
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Oct 29th
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Oct 29th
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Oct 28th
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Roger Ebert's Journal: The autumn leaves of red... →
I love Roger Ebert.
Oct 28th
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Mondegreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
I didn’t know there was a word for this: “A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.” For example, CCR’s “There’s a bathroom on the right” and Hendrix’s “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”.
Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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“I think Jones suffers from a common problem some good actors have: the character...”
– Complexity, Beauty, and the Underappreciated January Jones. Most interesting character on the show so far, but then I’m only halfway through the second season.
Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Bob Sutton: Selecting Talent: The Upshot from 85... →
Rankings of 19 predictors of work performance. At the top of the list are “general mental ability” (as in IQ and related measures) and “work sample tests” (e.g., Can you type?). I agree with Arnold Kling: “I love it that ‘years of education’ just barely beats out handwriting analysis.” Age is the worst predictor.
Oct 26th
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Oct 25th
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Brook Farm group was among the first to hear... →
“If Beethoven is standard American orchestral fare today, it’s because a group of Bostonians in the 1830s and ’40s decided he was the next big thing.”
Oct 25th
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Oct 24th
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ListenPaul McCartney Wake Up Call. In November 2005,...
Oct 23rd
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Extremists More Willing To Share Their Opinions,... →
Oct 22nd
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Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 19th
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Oct 15th
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Unquiet Thoughts →
Alex Ross’ new music blog on the New Yorker website. Nice counterweight to the blog of Sasha Frere-Jones .
Oct 15th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Storytime: Children tell their own tales →
“Want to hear a really good story? Turn off your TV and turn toward the nearest 4-year-old.”
Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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To the Audience
stephthirion: Often insomnia would strike in, and I would ask aloud, to the darkness of the room, “will anyone appreciate this”? (My girlfriend had by that time developed the habit of using earplugs). And then in a spectacle of light rays and stars, the Fairy of Reason would appear to me and speak tenderly: “good hearted child, if you love it, some people, who have things in common with you, will...
Oct 9th
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Oct 9th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 6th
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Oct 6th
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Writing as real-time performance « Snarkmarket →
This is very interesting. Think instead of a short story writ­ten with play­back in mind. Writ­ten for play­back. Typ­ing speed and rhythm are part of the expe­ri­ence. Dra­matic dele­tions are part of the story. The text at 2:20 tells you some­thing about the text at 11:13, and vice versa. What appear at first to be tiny, ten­ta­tive revi­sions turn out to be precisely-engineered sig­nals. At...
Oct 6th
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Oct 5th
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Oct 2nd
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The Believer - The Codex Seraphinianus →
Oct 1st