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Stevereads on BookTube
Steve Donoghue at Stevereads writes about BookTube, a YouTube community devoted to booklovers. It’s a fun survey of what he loves, dislikes, and questions about the community (why do so many of the vloggers tout Young Adult novels?). But his joy in the community is in their joy at sharing what they love, particularly the contents of their bookshelves …
(via This column will change your life: stop being busy | Life and style | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com
(via This column will change your life: the case against hope | Life and style | The Guardian) Source: theguardian.com
Blogs I Like: Sitcom Geek
As Stephen Fry said once upon a time: when I was young, comedy albums were my rock albums. The first albums I remember buying were remaindered copies of “Another Monty Python Album” and, rather incredibly, Robert Klein’s “Mind Over Matter” (I think because the cover just looked so out-there).
(via Odd Job Man and Language! by Jonathon Green, review – Telegraph) Source: telegraph.co.uk
(via Turkey Problem | Nassim Taleb) Source: nassimtaleb.org
“We cannot think if we have no time to read, nor feel if we are emotionally exhausted, nor out of cheap material create what is permanent. We cannot co-ordinate what is not there.” (Cyril Connolly) Research as a Second Language: The Basic Discipline Source: secondlanguage.blogspot.dk
Generic Corporate Promo Video
Everything You Hate About Advertising in One Fake Video That’s Almost Too Real | Adweek. Satire could be defined as “that which seeks to improve.” Or, as Dick Cavett reported George S. Kaufman saying, “Satire is what closes on Saturday night.” In the case of this video and, particularly, the McSweeney’s piece by Kendra Eash …
One of my favorite quotes of all time, probably my very favorite, is this one from Stanley Kubrick: “Sometimes the truth of a thing is not so much in the think of it, as in the feel of it.” [On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy by Matt Linderman of Basecamp …
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