May 2010
“A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
– Karl Krauss
Names
Adelle, Kaywinnit and Winifred for computers.
nipade and nipode for iPad and iPod Touch.
Jocasta, Tiberius, Andromaque and Cicero for desktop HDs; AhLovYooPenneh for Time Machine backups.
ericalba:
Names:
Tron, Hiro, Gracie, Decker, Ripley, Logan, Aeon, WOPR = my desktop HDs.
Newton, Edison, Curie, Hawking = my portables.
What r yours?
“David Simon treats writing an hour of televised drama as a privilege not a...”
– Josh Friedman via.
“Proper is a word forged by men who seek to enslave us with it.”
– Lucretia Steven S. deKnight
Language lessons: You are what you speak - New... →
what if the very diversity of languages is the key to understanding human communication?
Being somewhat bilingual, this article is interesting to me. I can trace a radical change in my social behaviour to the first year I understood I was able to switch my “thinking tongue.”
They believe that languages do not share a common set of rules. Instead, they say, their sheer variety...
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a...”
– Barry Switzer
via.
The Truman Show Delusion - NYTimes.com →
via kottke
The Truman Show delusion is how some psychiatrists are describing the condition of psychotic patients who believe they are filmed stars of reality TV programs.
Those thoughts are from three case studies of what psychiatrists interested in the intersection of mental illness, culture and society are calling, respectively, Truman Show delusion, Internet delusion and climate change...
Wolfram|Alpha is brutal →
Wolfram Alpha on the word meme, via reddit. Made me laugh.
“There is art and beauty in the world, but you can’t be responsible for any of...”
– Ralph Koster What are the lessons of MMORPGs today?
“Only boring people are bored.”
– Betty Draper
Mad Men
The Mark Twain Reveal - The Independent →
The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now
“Most people think Mark Twain was a sort of genteel Victorian. Well, in this document he calls her a slut and says she tried to seduce him. It’s completely at odds with the impression most people have of him,” says the historian Laura Trombley, who...
“It’s an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s cynical samurai masterpiece Yojimbo,...”
– The AV Club
on A Fistful of Dollars
“Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent...”
– Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything
“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
Barack Obama's rant against technology: Don't... →
this interesting tidbit :
Larry Katz, a Harvard economist, suspects that video games and websites may have kept the young and idle busy during this recession, thus explaining the surprising lack of an uptick in crime.
New word: "clusterfex." →
When a film or TV show is a complete clusterfuck - except the VFX, which are fantastic & almost make it worthwhile.
How Our Brains Make Memories | Smithsonian... →
Research suggests memories are created when remembered, not just when “stored.”
To Nader and his colleagues, the experiment supports the idea that a memory is re-formed in the process of calling it up. “From our perspective, this looks a lot like memory reconsolidation,” says Oliver Hardt