Still recovering. I hate having to spend a Friday night “in” but still being a little on the sick side and having A. out of town on family business anyway… Well, it just makes more sense. Better to get healthy. Especially with Mardi Gras tomorrow. That should be a lot of fun. Our company has […]
Science vs. Faith (a flowchart) via B^2 (tags: science visualization graph humor) Oort-Cloud via B^2: “Write – Share – Read – Respond” (tags: blog community literature scifi social writing todo)
Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners collection. Pretty awesome. A lot of “coming of age” stuff and adolescent themes. But beyond charming and cute. Insightful and provocative. And sexy in that “I just found out what sexy is” sort of way. Highlights include “The Faery Handbag” (makes you bite your lip and fall in love with […]
Curried Noodle Patties (tags: recipe todo) TextMate “The Missing Editor for Mac OS X” (tags: TextMate Mac OSX text editor) Esquire:The Napkin Project (tags: art literature writing todo)
Having just completed my reading of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, I am profoundly impressed with how stunningly excellent this novel is. I was floored in just about every way. To say that this novel had the same effect on me as Infinite Jest or House of Leaves would not be […]
DualOsx v.1 Rock 2 mice. (tags: freeware Mac OSX mouse hack) Ballardian: The World of JG Ballard Picked up via Fimoculous.com; going to check this out in the RSS for a while. (tags: writing blog future research literature fiction) William Gibson Re-adding to the rotation… (tags: blog fiction literature scifi writing) cityofsound via fimoculous.com: looks […]
Making PNG image transparency work in Internet Explorer via 24th Floor (via command_tab): A good (and succinct) redux on how to get PNG’s alpha working properly in Internet Explorer. (tags: IE hack CSS png graphics tutorial) Audacity Free Audio Editor and Recorder (tags: opensource Mac OSX audio software music todo Audacity) Defining the Centipede Bruce […]
So now, ye should prolly ken tha I jist finished up this Irvine Welsh cunt’s book ehs cault Porno. I cannae honestly be puttin masel n a spot of callin it the bes book ays ever read, likesay. But I’d some kinda daft liar if I cault it pure trash also! I cannae rightly say […]
10 OS X Apps You Might Not Know About But Should via The Apple Blog (via 43f) (tags: Mac OSX software) Humpback whales have “human” brain cells via Reuters.com: “So long and thanks for all the fish.” (tags: science research) 100 Notable Books of the Year via NY Times Book Review (via aspiringlibrarian) (tags: literature […]
Wow. I feel so fucking vindicated. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball calls Infinite Jest “the best novel I’ve ever read.” I would take it one step further. This is the most important novel I have read in my lifetime. Gruber cites a passage from the truly glorious Dave Eggers’ forward to the new paperback […]