Courtesy Netflix, I saw Orson Welles’ F for Fake, a fascinating document. I saw it, listened to the commentaries, and saw it again. It’s a dense, layered, rich lasagna that uses fakery to talk about fakery. It has some bravura editing for the time (1974 or 1976, sources vary) and includes some very personal Wellesian …
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Where do your taxes go?
Enter the amount of tax you paid into the National Priorities Project’s interactive tax chart and see.
Real-world "Mission Statements"
Merlin put up a post on the 43folders Board called Real-world “Mission Statements:” What’s yours?, wherein he asks people to submit their real mission statements, as opposed to the goody-goody elevate-yourself statements we’re always told to write. Mine is reply #11.
Links: Power and cyborgs
Caterina.net: Power reveals “Power reveals. When a leader gets enough power, when he doesn’t need anybody anymore–when he’s president of the United States or CEO of a major corporation–then we can see how he always wanted to treat people, and we can also see–by watching what he does with his power–what he wanted to accomplish …
tinfoil.com – Early Recorded Sounds & Wax Cylinders
You are about to enter the delightfully low-tech world of early recorded sound. Whether you are a newcomer or old-hand to old, old-time recordings, you’ll enjoy this voyage into the wonderful sounds of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Don Quixote
Another In Our Time newsletter, this one on Don Quixote (a book I’ve tried reading a couple of times and just can’t get through): Well, James Naughtie has put his foot among the pigeons. How do you pronounce Don Quixote? I pronounced it in the English fashion and had there been any objections from the …
Charlemagne and writing
Some of the scholarly chat programs on BBC4 radio have their own newsletters, as most media do nowadays. I enjoy downloading the latest In Our Time program each week and subscribe to host Melvyn Bragg’s newsletter, where he adds his own thoughts on that week’s topic and provides little scholarly nuggets that didn’t make it …
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Damn Interesting » Tin Foil Hats Proven Ineffective Shakespearean Insult Generator Creating Feeds from Feedless Web PagesMy notes from a demo I gave to a local STC SIG Grand Illustions – Toy Collection – Dragon Illusion“This little dragon is made out of paper – you simply cut it out and stick it together, and stand …
Creating Feeds from Feedless Web Pages
Here’s my first Backpack page that I created for a SIG meeting today. It describes how to create a feed from feedless web pages. It’s a nice all-in-one page. Backpack is great for presenting this kind of information and I was quite amazed at how quickly I could produce some nice-looking text modules, reorganize them, …
Advertising and its Discontented
Danny Gregory is running a great series on his site called Advertising and its Discontents. This first story, by Trevor Romain about why he left advertising, packs a wallop. We all want to matter. Charity Larrison’s story probably reflects the experience of most of us: drifting along, still trying to figure it all out.
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