February 2012
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“We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television — by...”
– Producer Matthew • Letter from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, in social network’s IPO filing
Zb doesn’t appear to have been informed of the Guttenberg Parenthesis… (emphasis mine)
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The New Inquiry: Pont Blank →
Some fun mysterious modernists’ malarky from your friends at TNI.
thenewinquiry:
“Photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation and fantasy.” –Susan Sontag, On Photography, 1977
“It is necessary that the piece of card is animated with some help from me, giving it meaning it did not yet have. If I see Pierre…
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Disjecta Membra
Genizaschmutz. So cool.
Among the documents:
“an 11th-century certificate by a rabbinical court testifying to the kosher status of certain cheeses produced on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, and palimpsests of biblical passages on paper or vellum”
“wills and bills, merchant contracts, trousseau lists, children’s primers, Hebrew grammars, prescriptions, petitions, a letter...
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And to round out the Philip Glass 75th...
January 2012
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“I remember when that Napster guy came up across, it was like, ‘Everybody’s...”
– Bob Dylan, on Napster (via newspeedwayboogie)
being interviewed by Jonathan Lethem in Rolling Stone, the whole thing’s really a great read.
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As of today, finished two books equaling nearly 500 pages of non-academic paper text in my newfound free time. This would be more impressive if one wasn’t a book of quite funny extra-short stories and the another a lesser-known spy drama from a first rate mid-century mystery writer. Both equal light reading of the highest order. Someone is encouraging me to begin Moby Dick, but I’m not...
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popkornstar:
David Kitay - theme from ghost...
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A sample of the Uri Caine Ensemble’s...
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BBC: Podcasts are more popular than ever →
jessethorn:
And they only keep growing.
You tell ‘em, Jesse!
Unfortunately, that video is all over the place until they get to Radiolab, a radio show which is also happens to be podcasted. And real great use of Beethoven to emphasize the… institutional prestige of Bush House.
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December 2011
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