February 2012
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“Dutch landscapes are also unlike maps in frequently representing places that are...”
– from the Preface to Lawrence Otto Goedde’s Tempest and Shipwreck in Dutch and Flemish Art where the author refutes an earlier claim that Dutch paintings of the period are like maps: designed to communicate information and to not serve as platforms for allegorical statements.
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Disasters at sea, rendered on canvas →
This apparently scratches some kind of aesthetic itch I didn’t notice until I put up that last post about the shark attack. So, I give you: paintingsofnavaldisasters.tumblr.com for more naval disasters, mishaps, cannibalism, and a brief sprinkling of history, head over to the link.
January 2012
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“Now, some people will say to you that Virgin space tourism counts as human...”
– -Warren Ellis from here
This just backs up my belief that Virgin “Galactic” (Virgin Suborbitals was not as sexy.) is functionally a replacement for the Concord. It’s a sexy, fast, terrestrial transportation method. There’ve been grumblings from them about spaceports in...
The Oasis of the Real: How Team Fortress 2’s...
thescummmanifesto:
PART I
The first time I found a Team Fortress 2 thread on 4chan’s yaoi board [1], I was amazed.
Spy and Sniper on a couch, unknown artist.
As an online multiplayer-only, plotless, mindlessly-violent first-person-shooter, I had assumed that the female fanbase would be limited; confined mostly to diehard first-person-shooter (FPS) enthusiasts, a subset of games with...
December 2011
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November 2011
4 posts
Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the...
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“To write the new constitution, the people of Iceland elected twenty-five...”
– Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not This whole article floored me. Part of me is afraid we’re too busy allowing the media to let us focus on idiocy and political bickering to wrest our government and economy away from the special interests. Looks like I’ll have to do some...
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October 2011
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“My part of Oakland is full of poor people. There’s at least one murder a week....”
– @el_gallo on BoingBoing.com (via lordmoudemort)
This sure sounds like everything I’ve ever heard about Oakland: It’s full of hard drugs, violent crime, and a completely ineffective police force. I can’t seem to find the original comment on boing boing though. Neither here nor...
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The New Aesthetic: A computer virus has infected... →
new-aesthetic:
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other war zones. The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not…
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Obama administration greenlights 500 oil drilling... →
climateadaptation:
Drilling will commence summer 2012 in the Chuckchi Sea, where Alaska and Russia meet. Environmental groups fume. Shell pleased. Rare species at risk.
Here is a round up:
Approves former President Bush’s stalled plans to drill in Arctic
Earth Justice sues
Native Alaskans are pissed: “We have a right to life, to physical integrity, to security, and the right to enjoy the...
September 2011
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Elizabeth Bear - Fiction - Shoggoths In Bloom →
One of the best pieces of short fiction I’ve read in some time. This is a tightly wrapped story: a good premise, a well developed main character and a nice little upset of a conclusion. Exemplary. Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to read it.
August 2011
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“If there was any piece of writing advice that I’d like to stab through the...”
– Kat Howard here:http://strangeink.blogspot.com/2011/08/forget-your-perfect-offering.html
July 2011
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June 2011
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Writing Letters
I’ve recently invested in some quality papers & envelopes, so that I can write a few short notes to family members &c. thanking them for graduation gifts. I’d also like to write some letters to some people I don’t know that well. If you’d like, send me your mailing address, and I’ll write you a letter.
send them to my email: a dot m dot kelly at gmail.
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J.R. Blackwell: The Gift →
jrblackwell:
The Gift
I am about to give you an idea of great power. Please, use it wisely.
With so much of our lives being documented online, with blog posts from those who know us referencing us, facebook, tweets photos and photomanipulation, the truth is that it is difficult to know how to sort out what really happened with documentation of the online record. I say to take charge of the...
May 2011
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Dear Tumblr: Allergies
I am suffering mightily from what I believe to be seasonal allergies:
My eyes water.
My sinuses feel like hollow caverns attempting to burst, like a bubble in baking bread, from beneath my face.
My nose runs.
My throat is sore when I swallow.
My brain is running at about 60% capacity.
I took a Claratin at about 4:00 this morning, which I guess took some of the edge off, but I think it may...
Apoplectic Skeptic: Did You Know...#2: Search is... →
soundcloud:
Tip #2:
Did you know using “show advanced search options” in Search is really powerful and you can find what you are looking for easier!
You can select from downloadable tracks, tracks from certain labels, you can search for podcasts, and you can even find tracks that are long…
I recently took a course (that was mostly theory and a bit of practice.) on the field of...
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Two Broken Walls
Jon would be wondering what had become of him, though Maester Aemon would no doubt understand. Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could sometimes fall right into them, as if each page were a hole into another world.
-George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows, pp. 103, paperback ed.
Do you believe in fate,...
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“Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the...”
– -Neil Stephenson Snow Crash Chapter 36
Well. Today I turned 25.
I am not the baddest motherfucker in the world.
I am OK with this.
I think I’ve gotten better at living in my own head.
I am receiving my Master’s Degree next week.
I am planning and determined to start doing...
“‘Who,’ she demanded, her piercing eyes alight with fire, ‘has...”
– Boethius The Consolations of Philosophy Book I, Part I. Trans. by Victor Watts, Penguin Classics Edition.
Philosophy, having descended to Boethius’ cell where he awaits his execution, chides the Muses for making him write bad poetry about the sorrows of his situation.
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“But speaking to reporters in Rome earlier Thursday, Clinton said she doesn’t...”
– Clinton on the “Situation Room Photo” here.
The photograph of course, and the gesture she happened to be making when the photograph was taken, has meaning because we give it meaning. (I don’t have the philosophy to back that claim up, but I think you may agree.) It isn’t...
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April 2011
8 posts
swamped with work
…and yet, here I am on tumblr.
I’ve got two big projects and a small one left. Then, I turn 25 and I get a Master’s degree. I’m stressed out and unfocused but I’ve got to get some serious work done tonight and this weekend because:
Big dinner with friends on Sunday for easter, we call it Feaster. It’s a tradition.
New season of Doctor Who starts Friday.
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Four Tet at Boiler Room →
Yes. I need more like this please.
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"Take its picture. Make sure you get the bar code,... →
claytoncubitt:
-Bruce Sterling (via ekstasis)
required reading.
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