May 2011
47 posts
A la recherche du temps perdu: Blog platform... →
proustitute:
After some thought, I am seriously considering leaving Tumblr. Personal words of mine or translations used without credit; a continued series of harassing idiocies on the part of one user whom many of my own followers follow (making this space no longer comfortable for me); and the creative drive…
Please don’t leave.
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“Is it morally justifiable to go on with allowing individual motorized transport...”
– European Cyclists Federation (via n8han)
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Mathematical Poetics: Clouds →
hiremebecauseimsmart:
You can see the “edge” of a cloud from far away so it should be obvious what I mean by ∂cloud. But up close (from an airplane) you can see there is no edge. The mist fades gradually into blue sky.
Here’s another job for schwartz functions: to define a “fuzzy boundary” ∂ that looks…
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“Mr. Malick’s work has long been discussed in philosophical terms — his...”
– ‘Tree of Life’ - Terrence Malick Behind the Scenes - NYTimes.com
This right here is why Terrence Malick doesn’t give interviews.
(via mwfrost)
I agree.
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Roman Numeral Ten Thousand
codepoint:
Sometimes 500, usually D, was written as I followed by Ɔ, while 1,000, usually M, was written as CIƆ. Sometimes CIƆ was reduced to a lemniscate symbol (ↀ) for denoting 1,000. Similarly, 5,000 (IƆƆ) was reduced to ↁ; and 10,000 (CCIƆƆ) was reduced to ↂ.- Wikipedia
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Perilous: Peril in perspective: A look at 20 years... →
ageofperil:
So I’m new to Tumblr and haven’t figured out just yet how to embed visualizations. That means we’re stuck with screengrabs for now until I can get some help next week. The Tableau chart above performs a useful role in the meantime, and another version is available here.
These numbers come…
Let me/us know how we can help make Tumblr a better publishing platform for data.
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“It is absurdly hard to find one’s iTunes store credit on an iPhone. What...”
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Google Maps + Bike Shares! →
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General Theory Expo [Re-enactment of a Jacques... →
Listen to this while coding. It makes perfect sense.
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Pop Rally at MoMA →
Come to MoMA this weekend for a Pop Rally Event! A music/performance collective called SSION is performing tonight (Friday), Saturday, and Sunday. It’s probably worth going just to see what kind of person can make this kind of website. Tickets are 15 dollars in advance.
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“Chan then described the climatic moment. “[Sergey] looks at me and says,...”
– From Stephen Levy.
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“all of brooklyn is filled with entitled assholes who feel they deserve to store...”
– Brooklyn Flea Finds A New Way To Annoy Fort Greene (via n8han)
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“There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and...”
– Umberto Eco (via niveous-)
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via claerwen)
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Watchnypl:
Arthur Laurents, the Tony-winning writer-director who wrote the Broadway classics “West Side Story” and “Gypsy,” died yesterday. In 2007 he came to The Library for the Performing Arts to discuss West Side Story.
I saw Arthur Laurents speak at the Down Town Association in January 2009. Listening to a writer gives new meaning to his or her works.
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A Perfect Commotion: Kafka on Metaphors and... →
aperfectcommotion:
Metaphors are one among many things which make me despair of writing. Writing’s lack of independence of the world, its dependence on the maid who tends the fire, on the cat warming itself by the stove; it is even dependent on the poor old human being warming himself by the stove. All these are…
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Very special maps of the Middle East →
garysick:
Do you like maps as much as I do?
At the link is an excellent example of a map drawn from the online collection of the Gulf/2000 project that I manage at Columbia Univ. It appeared in the Sunday New York Times. The entire collection, prepared by our mapmaster, Michael Izady, is at http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/
This map reference section is being used increasingly by a wide variety...
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gary's choices: Does Islamism Have a Future? →
garysick:
Radical Islam has recently suffered two massive body blows. Although the killing of Osama bin Laden had great symbolic impact, it pales in comparison to the events of the Arab Spring. When Arabs across the Middle East took their destiny in their own hands and launched a series of massive,…
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n8han: Cyclist behavior in cities where large... →
The Law & Order BrigadeTM — the folks who routinely carp at cyclists for not stopping at stop signs and red lights (and presumably also disapprove of the behavior of the millions of curfew-breaking citizens in the Middle East — outlaws!) — and even some cycling ‘advocates’ (not me, of course)…
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Debt proposals →
alexainslie:
” … Mr Ryan’s plan adds (by its own claims) $6 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, but promises to balance the budget by sometime in the 2030s by cutting programmes for the poor and the elderly. The Progressive Caucus’s plan would (by its own claims) balance the budget by 2021 by cutting defence spending and raising taxes, mainly on rich people. Mr Ryan has been...
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“Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a...”
– Roberto Bolaño, 2666 (via proustitute)
I generally hate metaphors.
Outside of Islamabad. Unbelievable. Was Pakistani Intelligence involved in intelligence?
