August 2009
8 posts
The Catcher in the Rye
langer:
I think I was probably thirteen or fourteen when I had to read The Catcher in the Rye and really the only memorable thing I took away from the book was how intensely I hated Holden Caufield. But here I am fifteen years later and a friend’s been pressuring me to revisit the book and I thought, you know, what the hell, I mean I’m twenty-nine and I’m not exactly a fan of that thirteen- or...
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Books and Mirrors
Today when I woke, drunk with sleep, I rolled out of bed quietly just like any other morning this summer. Today though, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed rubbing the drunkenness out of my eyes in the silence, I realized that my bedroom floor was covered in a seemingly endless amount of books that I haven’t gotten around to reading yet. My floor is littered with books that I purchased with the...
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Code Rush
I knew a little bit about the orgins of Mozilla’s Firefox browser. I knew that it was created out of the open source release of Netscape during the last leg of the 1990s, in an effort to somehow save their company. Beyond that, the only thing I know for sure that it may have been one of the most monumental, but completely unsung moves ever made in the software industry. Little did I know...
homeofthevain:
Brian Eno, Julie With… (Before and...
wekickmines:
So here’s the first mix from...
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Xenophanes and Karl Popper
The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black while the the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw and could sculpture like men, then horses would draw their gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and each would then shape bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of its own.
The gods did not reveal, from the...
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