Wednesday, November 12, 2008
i am fascinated by the names of new drugs. not the actual chemical names of the drugs themselves which are less than memorable, but the brand names they are marketed under. the process of inventing themmust be computerized by now. they must have a program into which you punch the number of vowels and consonants [...]
we live here – the tree on the left is gone now. so is the old weird guy in the flat underneath us. i saw what must have been his body lying on the couch through his window as i walked past one day.
he had just built an elaborate construction for growing tomatoes in the [...]
wordpress 2.6 is out and features a tumblr-like bookmarklet and youngmosstongue has the first album by legendary new zealand band the verlaines Hallelujah All The Way Home as well as bucketloads of other good stuff
it is exactly the sort of day when you have every right to be miserable and/or worried. what with the petrol prices and the drought and the interest rates and the cost of housing and drug queen roberta williams turns cover girl.
my appointment with the dental hygienist in outer western mongolia is actually with the [...]
although i never really abandoned it, i have recently moved back to macjournal after working with devonthink for half a year. the new version macjournal 5 has some of the same features as devonthink, and is much cheaper and leaner. this is useful for me since i work exclusively on pre-intel macs with tiger and [...]
so yeah. well see tumblr is this other blogging thing that occupies a space somewhere between your twitter and delicious and flickr and google reader shared items page and your own perfectly good blog but although you are always posting things up here and there, good serious blogging is hard and you are busy and [...]
angus fairhurst
when i woke up in the morning the feeling was still there
a much more engaging and humble piece by alex james in the independent about the suicide of his friend angus fairhurst (4.10.1966 – 29.3.2008) than the annoying self-serving piece by tracy emin which i linked some time ago to in ephemeral.
unlike his close [...]
letter to the editor
I love clocks, in fact I have 17 of them. But what a bore, having to get up at 2am to put them all back an hour. I mean, couldn’t they let us put them back at 10pm as we go to bed.
- Doug Jacques,
Nambucca Heads.
ha ha ha … doug : you [...]
Published in 1975, Charles Reznikoff’s book-length poem Holocaust is a collage of witness testimonies from the Nuremberg Military Tribunal and the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
“By using the language of others he attends to the “object” of genocide without imaginative or philosophical flourish, and by reciting it again in his own rhythm he becomes [...]
Here is an interview with web guru Mark Frauenfelder, blogger, Wired editor, writer and publisher of bOiNG bOiNG, from Michael Bank’s forthcoming book, Blogging Heroes (Wiley 2007). He is also the author of one of the fullest, most unreserved and unconditional public apologies it is possible to imagine : An apology to Ursula K Le [...]