Nay, a tumblelog.

Making ebooks more like real books. Do want.

Thu, 31 May 2012 13:07:00 -0700

Making ebooks more like real books. Do want.

"For all is but a woven web of guesses."

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:34:00 -0700

“For all is but a woven web of guesses.”

- Xenophanes

The Large Hadron Collider via CERN

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:39:59 -0700

The Large Hadron Collider via CERN

"If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it."

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:53:57 -0700

“If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.”

- David Deutsch - The Beginning of Infinity

"The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain..."

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:53:35 -0700

“The possibilities that lie in the future are infinite. When I say ‘It is our duty to remain optimists,’ this includes not only the openness of the future but also that which all of us contribute to it by everything we do: we are all responsible for what the future holds in store. Thus it is our duty, not to prophesy evil but, rather, to fight for a better world.”

- Karl Popper, The Myth of the Framework

Made with Paper

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:05:14 -0700

Made with Paper

"When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep."

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:39:44 -0700

“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.”

- Michel de Montaigne

"Let us cut loose from all the ties that bind us to others; let us win from ourselves the power to..."

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:05:35 -0700

“Let us cut loose from all the ties that bind us to others; let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone and to live that way at our ease.”

- Michel de Montaigne

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:28:48 -0700

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

- Walt Whitman

"Nullius in verba."

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:00:58 -0800

“Nullius in verba.”

- Take nobody’s word for it. The motto of the Royal Society (London, 1660).

"[Garfield] refused to seek an appointment or promotion of any kind. ‘I suppose I am morbidly..."

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:55:00 -0800

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[Garfield] refused to seek an appointment or promotion of any kind. ‘I suppose I am morbidly sensitive about any reference to my own achievements,’ he admitted. ‘I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.’”

“He had sternly instructed his backers that ‘first, I should make no pledge to any man or any measures; second, I should not work for my own nomination.’”

“After a landslide victory [for election to the U.S. Senate], his campaign’s expenses amounted to less than $150

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- From Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:19:22 -0800

"The imagination will not perform until it has been flooded by a vast torrent of reading. Announced..."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:28:00 -0800

“The imagination will not perform until it has been flooded by a vast torrent of reading.
Announced Petronius.
You have to read fifteen hundred books in order to write one.
Flaubert put it.”

- David Markson in The Last Novel

"Venomously malignant. Noxious. Blasphemous. Grotesque. Disgusting. Repulsive. Entirely bestial...."

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:13:00 -0800

“Venomously malignant. Noxious. Blasphemous. Grotesque. Disgusting. Repulsive. Entirely bestial. Indecent.
Being among the critical greetings for Leaves of Grass.
Not to omit ithyphallic audacity.
Plus garbage.

Profound stupidity. Maniacal raving. Pure nonsense.
Among some for the best of Shelley.
Which was also called abominable.
Infantile. Absurd. Driveling. Nauseating.
Reserved for Wordsworth.”

- David Markson in The Last Novel

"The old triumvirate of tyrants in the human soul, the libido sciendi, the libido sentiendi, and the..."

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:37:00 -0800

“The old triumvirate of tyrants in the human soul, the libido sciendi, the libido sentiendi, and the libido dominandi [the lust of the mind, the lust of the flesh and the lust for power], is just as powerful today as it ever was, and no one can ignore its tyranny with impunity.”

- James Luther Adams

"Bread and circuses."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:43:53 -0800

“Bread and circuses.”

- Juvenal

"Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art."

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:08:08 -0800

“Learning to program teaches you how to think. Computer science is a liberal art.”

- Steve Jobs

"Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself."

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:39:39 -0800

“Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.”

- Andrei Platonov

"Lead the people by laws and regulate them by penalties, and the people will try to keep out of jail,..."

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:16:04 -0800

“Lead the people by laws and regulate them by penalties, and the people will try to keep out of jail, but will have no sense of shame. Lead the people by virtue and restrain them by the rules of decorum, and the people will have a sense of shame, and moreover will become good.”

- Confucius

The amazing story of the Polaroid SX-70.

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:02:23 -0700

The amazing story of the Polaroid SX-70.