August 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
5 posts
“The shadow planets actually existed without actually existing. They were...”
– Salman Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown
“A modern lithium-ion cell can pack nearly half the energy density of TNT.”
– Editorial: rechargeable batteries are a vintage gadget’s Achilles’ heel — Engadget
“Trying to improve the quality of software by doing more testing is like trying...”
– Steve McConnell. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction.
December 2010
12 posts
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke : The Duino Elegies
“She was so beautiful and delicate, but she was of ice, of dazzling, sparkling...”
– The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
“Well, I’ve gotta go learn a bunch of people’s names before I fire...”
– The inimitable Roger Sterling in Mad Men Season 4 Ep. 12
“Oil is at once sociology and pathology.”
– Ghana And The Road To Nigeria By Pius Adesanmi | Sahara Reporters
“Cultures that don’t laugh at themselves are cults.”
– http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010/12/four-reasons-google-is-still-awesome.html
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
The garden flew round with the angel,
The angel flew round with the clouds,
And the clouds flew round and the clouds flew round
And the clouds flew round with the clouds.
-- Wallace Stevens : The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
“You destroy the conspiracy, in other words, by making it so paranoid of itself...”
– Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; “To destroy this invisible government” « zunguzungu
November 2010
9 posts
Noli Me Tangere
You see the angels have come to sit on the delay
for a while,
they have come to harrow the fixities, the sharp edges
of this open
sepulcher,
they have brought their swiftnesses like musics
down
to fit them on the listening.
Their robes, their white openmindedness gliding into the corners,
slipping this way then that
over the degrees, over the marble
flutings.
-- Jorie...
“I too am tempted to eff the ineffable.”
– Effing the Ineffable | Big Questions Online
“If peace is to last, it will have to be fashioned from a stable balance of...”
– Conflict or Cooperation? | Foreign Affairs
October 2010
3 posts
“I cannot wait for this to achieve escape velocity from the mundanity well.”
– GOU Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints makes polite conversation. | Iain M Banks, Surface Detail
May 2008
2 posts
Pulp Shakespare
B: He is dark. J: Aye, and what more? B: His head is shaven bald. J: Hath he the semblance of a harlot? B: What? JULES strikes and BRETT cries out J: Hath he the semblance of a harlot? B: Nay! J: Then why didst thou attempt to bed him thus? B: I did not! J: Aye, thou didst! O, aye, thou didst! http://ceruleanst.livejournal.com/151753.html
April 2008
6 posts
Lyric
there’s a lot of ways to make money in this world but i can’t recommend insurance fraud. The Mountain Goats - Insurance Fraud #2
“Sopranoes were perfused with olive oil, and 10 % GlennFiddish, and...”
– Georges Perec. Experimental demonstration of the tomatotopic organization in the Soprano. Laboratoire de physiologie, Faculté de médecine Saint-Antoine, Paris, France.
September 2007
1 post
“Is the soul greater than the hum of its parts?”
– Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid
August 2007
3 posts
“Making war is like playing dice with God — using His dice.”
– War, chaos and Bush’s faith | Salon.com
July 2007
21 posts
“Trust me on this. If audiences had an unlimited attention span, I’d be in...”
– Al Gore gives trainees advice about the limits of time and complexity - The Last Temptation of Al Gore - TIME
“A public-health researcher from Mars might legitimately wonder why a nation...”
– You Are What You Grow - New York Times
