December 2011
16 posts
“What keeps him going is his vision. Nothing is going to stop him, except death.”
– Who? Steve Jobs of course
The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books - The New Yorker
“My grandfather used to say: “Life is astonishingly short. Now, in my memory, it...”
– Franz Kafka, ‘The Next Village’. This is the entire text of the story. It’s really a fragment rescued by his friend Max Brod, but like many of these it’s usually published on its own. As a paragraph in a larger work it could be funny; as a standalone piece it is haunting. (via mrgan)
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Constant spoonerizing →
mrgan:
I spoonerize words all the time. All. The. Time. Good spoonerisms and bad. In my head. (I worderize spoons all the time. Tall. The Lime. Spoon Gooderisms band ad. Hin my ed.)
The earliest memory I have of doing this is in my teens, spoonerizing movie titles on posters at the nearby theatre….
I, also, am afflicted.
The Age of Mechanical Reproduction →
Mind vs. Machine →
Whilst the conclusions at the end feel a bit tacked on, the issues raised by the Turing Test bear thinking about from time to time. For me, this morning was such a time.
Terence Young: James Bond's Creator? →
Who created James Bond?
The obvious answer of course is Ian Fleming.
But who really made the character come to life?
People tend to ask this about any or all of the actors chosen to assume the Bond mantle over the 35 years since the world was introduced to James Bond on the big screen. First they point out one actors pluses versus another actors faults, but theyre missing the larger picture....
On Intellectual Dishonesty (Aaron Swartz's Raw... →
Lingua Franca - The Chronicle of Higher Education →
BUT
A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and... →
Great.
Family Guy writer's first-person account of his... →
Disappointing.
Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance →
Jay-Sir.
“Jobs usually had little interest in public self-analysis, but every so often...”
– Jason Kottke’s roundup of Steve Jobs memories