March 2011
10 posts
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“Progress”
Erik Mallinson:
I’m really, really bummed that Bob Slate is closing. It’s been around for 78 years and for quite a few of those I made it my stop for whatever I could find there. Nowhere else can you walk into a store and buy one sheet of resume paper. Need a coin roll? 2 ¢ each. Those dry transfer sheets that Field Notes just repopularized? They have around 10,000 individual sheets in 10...
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Platforms and Audiences
Steve Kinney:
During [the last eighteen months], my professional life got a lot more interesting and I want to talk about it. I’m doing some really cool stuff, but I don’t want to alienate the people who started following me because I posted some random crap I found on the Internet, but updates on my quest to drink 500 different beers this year and being a teacher don’t dovetail all that...
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Japan
This blog is normally more fixated on white people problems — like UI design, typography on crappy pulp TV shows, and the manifold stupidities of Everett Bogue — than cataclysmic human tragedies, and many of them go by daily without remark. Its author is also strongly against shallow “clicktivism” (“Massive Human Tragedy‼ Click the “Like” Button to “Help” the People Affected‼ — Also, Please Look...
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“I wonder what future generations will say about us. My grandparents suffered...”
– Brooks, Max, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 2006), p. 334.
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The Gatekeepers
I thought I’d never say it, but it looks like my favourite cybergogic transhuman yogi has, somehow, fallen in with someone that actually seems to know what they’re talking about. In his most recent post, Bogue interviews Thom [sic] Chambers, who publishes a magazine1 called In Treehouses, and they discuss the future of publishing. For whatever reason — perhaps Chambers acts as a moderating...
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Just Write, For Fuck’s Sake
Jessica Firger, writing for the Wall Street Journal:
After quitting her PR job seven months ago to write full time, MacLean knew she’d have to portion out the Internet or else she’d never get anything done. So she downloaded Self Control, a free computer program that blocks access to email and sites such as Twitter and Facebook for a predetermined amount of time. Even rebooting the computer...
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‘Augmented Humanity’ by Numbers
Number of Photos of Everett Bogue:
2
Number of Photos of Everett Bogue Not Taken By Everett Bogue
0
Number of Photos of Everett Bogue That Are Not Recycled from His Blog
0
Number of Pages
114
Size of Pages
8 ½″ × 11″
Approximate Percentage of Area of an Average Page Given Over to ‘Margins’
65%
Number of Times Correct Paragraph Indentation Is Used Instead of Line Break–Line Break–New...
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Tumblr2WP →
One Thing Well:
Tumblr2WP lets you backup your Tumblr weblog in a format that’s widely used and relatively easy to parse. Unlike Tumblr’s own Mac-only sort-of-backup tool, which (weirdly) hides a potentially useful XML export in a static HTML version of your site.
One Thing Well sort-of misses the point here: as I expounded before, HTML is the archive format. Tumblr’s backup applet gives...
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A Succinct Distillation of My Feelings on... →
Reari, saying in less than 40 words what it took me 664 and a couple of tangents to say:
Maybe I’m just reblogging because I personally dislike the way how a lot of the people I know (former acquaintances) just love spamming pictures so much that the intrinsic value of each photograph they take is basically nil.
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“Take a Photo; It’ll Last Longer”
In the six weeks that I had an Instagram account, I took and uploaded a single photo:
I took it the night we put up our Xmas decorations. It wasn’t posed — it just was, so I snapped it, applied a filter, and uploaded it.
Looking at it now, I realise that this photo not real. It’s disconnected and somehow false to claim the photo as mine. This is not an artefact, or a record, or a...