David Apatoff has a lovely, heartbreaking post on his Illustration Art blog about a Polish student imprisoned by the Nazis in Auschwitz, how he fell in love with a fellow prisoner, and what became of them. I don’t know where he got the story, but thank the gods that the story still exists.
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"My Documents" set as read-only???
I hope I’ve just solved a nasty nasty problem that had me furious at my computer, myself, my life, and my prospects. I’m working on a new hard drive with a fresh install of Windows XP and have been slowly rebuilding my apps and directories since January. Recently, while working on a critical document for …
Godamighty, but can Winterson write!
The British novelist Jeanette Winterson has maintained a web presence for many years. (She even went to court to protect other writers’ privileges when some wanker registered jeanettewinterson.com and refused to release it to her. She won her suit and, of course, no one thanked her for her efforts.) Every month, she posts her latest …
Don’t Fear The Creeper
Datajunkie runs a great series of scans on Steve Ditko’s “Beware the Creeper!” series that he created for DC. I actually remember having the first issue but never knew others followed. What I like about this post is the casual examination of Ditko’s storytelling style over the series and how it changed when he returned …
I Can See Clearly Now…Except When I Can’t
Quixotic is a blog journal I stumbled across recently and it’s morbidly fascinating (and by “morbid,” I mean fascinated by disease. From what I gather in my skim-reads, the blogger is a woman suffering from cancer for many years, who has relocated to Mexico to undergo more aggressive (and what would be non-legal in the …
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Ruddock House Mottos in ZhurnalWiki
And the winner with the fewest nays is…
Organizing my books
We’re studying classification in my Organization of Information class. One of my classmates shared a link to a posting about arranging and classifying your personal library by the color of the book’s spine. The link was from the Design Observer blog (though the site has been unavailable to me recently). This spurred a lot of …
Evaluating Virtual Machines for Personal Use | Altiris Juice
I’ve been thinking for awhile about installing a virtual machine product. I want to read this article from the Altiris site to see what they say about the different products. Based on my reading, Msft’s Virtual PC is the easiest to set up on a Windows machine, esp if I’ll be installing Windows XP. VMWare …
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Magic with a Glass Topped Table
This Google video shows some amazing illusions worked with a glass-topped coffee table. It reminds me of Slydini’s famous trick of snapping a coin through a table. But like the best tricks, it takes something familiar — a penetration illusion — and makes you see it fresh.
Jeanette Winterson – We Need Poetry
From one of Jeanette Winterson’s latest columns, this one on why we need poetry: And in the way of things, the memory gets used to being fed something more useful than crossword puzzles, and will deliver you the lines you need, when you need them. Poetry, because it has rhythm and because it is made …
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