Did Jesus complain? Did Jesus complain? Overheard at the bagel store, when the sassy counter gal was teasing her male co-worker
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Surviving 100,000 instant Visitors on a Budget
“Last Sunday I casually wrote a post about the most common pitfalls in photography. I had written the post a long time ago, but I never put it on this site. The story ended up on the front page of Digg, stayed there for nearly 12 hours and was picked up by a bunch of …
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Defeat the modernity
Sadly the Dutch are turning back: In cities across the Netherlands, mayors and town councils are closing down shops where marijuana is sold, rolled and smoked. Municipalities are shuttering the brothels where prostitutes have been allowed to ply their trade legally. Parliament is considering a ban on the sale of hallucinogenic “magic mushrooms." Orthodox Christian …
Don’t ask why it’s called Bellyitcher. It’s a LONG story…Just enjoy this fantastic flashback to 1940s Roman Catholicism. Bellyitcher : CafePress.com
Credit card games
I usually forget to sign the back of my credit cards. Or with one of my cards – the one I use most frequently – the signature rubs off quickly. Every now and then the card will be rejected because it doesn’t have my signature on it. Or they will require ID. I then offer …
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Everything is Miscellaneous
This is a book about authority, order, information and knowledge – the evolution of the latter and the limitations imposed by the former. This hyper-intelligent journey through the history of classification (ex; library card catalogues) and the current climate (ex; tagging) makes an engaging case for the virtues of seemingly counterintuitive “messiness.” The anecdotes are …
Liz-icism
“I don’t need an A-plus. I’m happy with an A.”
"Callous Complacence"
Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time newsletter reproduced this fascinating document from WWI war hero and poet Siegfried Sassoon, denouncing the conduct of the war at great personal risk. It was originally printed in The Times in 1917. I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that …
The Bandwidth of Books
This Design Observer post about who is reading all those books went over some familiar ground (“explosion of information” = “ignorance about more things”) and elicited some good comments. The crux of the post was to answer this question: Why keep on with the work of traditional publishing when the Internet would seem to provide …
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