January 2010
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Scientific Attempt To Create Most Annoying Song...
December 2009
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“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist | A world of hits
“There is something in staying close to men and women, and looking on them, and...”
– Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric from Leaves of Grass
Readers by Author: Stereotyping People by Their...
Jonathan Safran Foer 30somethings who were cool when they were 20something.
Chuck Klosterman Boys who don’t read.
Chuck Palahniuk Boys who can’t read.
David Foster Wallace Confirmed 90’s literati.
Haruki Murakami People who like good music.
Margaret Atwood Women whose favorite color is hunter green.
William Faulkner People who are good at crosswords.
Sylvia Plath Girls who keep journals...
“He has long ceased to be surprised at the range of ignorance of his students....”
– JM Coetzee, Disgrace
“Part of the problem is the public misunderstanding of how forests and carbon...”
– BERND HEINRICH NY Times Op Ed: Clear-Cutting the Truth About Trees
WatchBrownian motion.
This is an audio reactive composition that displays brownian motion trails and emits particles with a stochastic behavior.
Some startling complexity.
Steve Reich | Different Trains: America Before The...
“HST may spell the end for B.C. Premier. Of course, because of a tax. Not for...”
– Beyond Robson: morning brew
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“Shopping for clothes is like masturbation—everyone does it, but it isn’t...”
– Lorrie Moore, How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)
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“As in the eighteenth century, so today: by eviscerating the state’s...”
– Tony Judt, What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy, New York Review of Books
Our refrigerator.
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