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The Lou Reed / Metallica Venn Diagram of Doom. From the March...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:40:39 -0500

The Lou Reed / Metallica Venn Diagram of Doom. From the March 2012 issue of Classic Rock.

"Will your work survive? Probably not, but so what? You won’t survive, either. 100 years from now..."

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:39:11 -0500

“Will your work survive? Probably not, but so what? You won’t survive, either. 100 years from now you’re very likely to be dead. Even if your work survives, it won’t do you much good. In the meantime that still leaves lots of people today to potentially read your stuff, argue about it, be inspired by it (or react against it) and generally make a lot of noise about it. You might even make a living at it, which is a bonus. Focus on those people today, and on today’s times. Enjoy it all now. Enjoy it while it lasts. Then when it’s over, you can say you had fun at the time.”

- John Scalzi, A Small Meditation on Art, Commerce, and Impermanence

12 Bookstore Cats - Mental Floss

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:34:06 -0500

12 Bookstore Cats - Mental Floss

I’m pretty sure that the Internet is a giant Skinner Box

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:31:05 -0500

I’m pretty sure that the Internet is a giant Skinner Box

Mac Davis and the Muppets do “It’s Hard to Be...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0500

Mac Davis and the Muppets do “It’s Hard to Be Humble”.

"The house was quiet and the world was calm. The reader became the book; and summer night Was like..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:30:06 -0500

“

The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night

Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.

The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,

Wanted to lean, wanted much to be
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.

The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.

And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself

Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.

”

- Wallace Stevens

Our Hymn for this week: “Will there be Mogen David in...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0500

Our Hymn for this week: “Will there be Mogen David in Heaven, sweet Jesus? If they don’t, who the hell wants to go!”

Ugh.

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:34:48 -0500

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.

"All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0500

“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

- Blaise Pascal

From the Department of Redundancy Department

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:03:05 -0500

From the Department of Redundancy Department

"When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn when death comes and takes all the bright coins from..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:06:06 -0500

“

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

”

- Mary Oliver

Satan has a plan, you see. It involves using drugs, Ouija...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:34:16 -0500

Satan has a plan, you see. It involves using drugs, Ouija boards, astrology, and the TV show Bewitched to establish a one world government, overthrow Christianity, and force everyone to join a one-world satanic super church. The only thing standing in his way: a 16 year old girl named Debbie, a promiscuous, drug using, occult worshipper. Will Satan’s minions, in their black cloaks and badly drawn faces with fangs, be able to salvage their master’s plan by killing Debbie with an LSD Flashback (!) before Debbie’s grandmother’s prayers are successful and Debbie get’s saved? Read on to find out…

Read Bewitched?

nevver: Earth girls are easy

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:47:57 -0500

nevver:

Earth girls are easy

From the April 1960 issue of Mad Magazine: A Guide to More...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:47:29 -0500

From the April 1960 issue of Mad Magazine: A Guide to More Efficient Snow Removal. Share with your friends that live in snow prone areas.

From Damn You Autocorrect

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:34:05 -0500

From Damn You Autocorrect

I used to worry about encrypting all of my data, until I learned...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:49:16 -0500

I used to worry about encrypting all of my data, until I learned about rubber hose cryptanalysis.

From xkcd

Some Mac nostalgia from 20+ years ago: The Flying Toasters from...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0500

Some Mac nostalgia from 20+ years ago: The Flying Toasters from the After Dark screen saver. Everybody sing along!

From Tom the Dancing Bug

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:35:18 -0500

From Tom the Dancing Bug

“One Hundred Fears of Solitude” “Not long ago, it was generally accepted that...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:30:05 -0500

“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 depends.”

Photo by Wouter de Bruijn
Creative Commons Attribution 2.0

Poe’s Corollary in action: One example of this parody of the biblical Ark is a game for...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:00:06 -0500

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 of Scripture’s account of the Flood.

“Noah’s Ark Game Misses the Boat” - Institue for Creation Research