February 2012
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January 2012
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“Will your work survive? Probably not, but so what? You won’t survive, either....”
– John Scalzi, A Small Meditation on Art, Commerce, and Impermanence
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“The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and...”
– Wallace Stevens
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Ugh. →
Never been a big fan of Mark Driscoll, but this puts me off of him completely. Requiring a member to detail and reveal all of their past sexual sins as part of a “restoration” process? Sorry, no. Not Christian. Not Biblical.
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“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
– Blaise Pascal
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“When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all...”
– Mary Oliver
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“One Hundred Fears of Solitude”
“Not long ago, it was generally accepted that humanity’s most creative achievements, from art and poetry to major scientific discoveries, were the precious fruits of solitude. But in a single heartbeat on history’s timeline, this sacred, fecund privacy has become the unpardonable social sin for the generation on which future creativity...
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Poe’s Corollary in action:
One example of this parody of the biblical Ark is a game for preschoolers produced by Rubik’s Cube toy maker Ideal. The Noah’s Ark Game1 looks innocuous enough, with a picture of colorful animals crowding the roof and deck of a boat barely large enough to hold them. But it misrepresents the Ark to such a degree that it undermines the feasibility...
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“You’re just clever enough to be stupider than if you weren’t clever at all.”
– Neal Stephenson, Reamde
“The public is not simply divided into intellectual and anti-intellectual...”
– Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism and American Life, p.19
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“The ideal assumptions of anti-intellectualism: Intellectuals, it may be held,...”
– Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism and American Life, p.18
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“Wallace, after he had just taken away the Peter & Zula’s cell phones:...”
– Neal Stephenson, Reamde
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Does God Like Tebow More Than Brady? |... →
Apparently not.
“Sportianity. A mixture of sports and a form of Christianity. A form that says “To the victors belong the spoils.” A form that renounces losers and favors winners. Just imagine: If the Broncos had finished 2-14, how many would be heralding Tebow as an example of a victorious Christian? Or think of it this way: How many athletes do you hear thanking God after a brutal loss?...
“The common strain that binds together the attitudes and ideas which I call...”
– Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism and American Life, p.7
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“Even now, after centuries of reductionist propaganda, the world is still...”
– Wendell Berry, from In Distrust of Movements (via sabbatical)
Maybe
by Mary Oliver
Sweet Jesus, talking
his melancholy madness,
stood up in the boat
and the sea lay down,
silky and sorry.
So everybody was saved
that night.
But you know how it is
when something
different crosses
the threshold — the uncles
mutter together,
the women walk away,
the young brother begins
to...
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“Let go of all your assumptions
and the world will make perfect sense.
In...”
– from Second Book of the Tao by Stephen Mitchell
Body-Checked by a Beep — Features — Utne Reader →
The irony of sharing this article on a blog is not lost on me, but I think he’s pinned down the source of the unease that our always connected society should be creating in us.
The two sentences that really grabbed my heart and squeezed:
I would hazard to say that rabid Internet use is killing many potentially brilliant creators who have given in to the seduction of the instantaneous....
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“In the days of Jonathan Edwards and his contemporaries, it had been customary to...”
– Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism and American Life , p. 109
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SingleFile for Google Chrome →
Finally! A way to save complete web pages (images and all) in a single file that is readable by all browsers. I’ve been wanting something like this for years! And it’s not MHTML! (That’s right, I’m looking at you Internet Explorer). Save a web page and know that you’ll be able to read it in any browser for all time.