Patton Oswalt: " I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity ( Read more... )

8/18 Today would normally be a writing day, but I needed to spend all day on the painting in order to have something I was willing to show T. the next day ( Read more... )

Interesting response from the guy who does Postsecret:Q: "Frank, do you think any of the secrets you get are made-up ( Read more... )

Another beautiful, reflective comic by Lucy Knisley: “These moments seem to pivot around us, when in truth we are the ones pivoting on our own axises-alchemical and irrevocable transformations of self.”http://lucylou.livejournal.com/578366.html?view=2810686#

It turns out this month was a really good time to rediscover Dolby's brilliant album Golden Age of Wireless...
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( from Cloudburst at Shingle Street )

“By cultivating sympathy and impartiality in dealing with the past we may hope to reach a point where we can view the present coolly and temperately. In this way really thoughtful historical study serves to develop the very fundamental virtues of sympathy, fairness, and caution in forming our judgments.” -James Harvey Robinson, 1904

So in the process of working on my costume presentation, there's an issue I've been pondering a lot, and even though there isn't time to do more than touch on it in the class, I've gotten interested in it for its own sake. That issue is the medieval concept of historical authenticity / accuracy ( Read more... )

(If that title is ungrammatical, pardon my French ( Read more... )

This ingenious guy invents games through which humans help make computers smarter... He also invented the captcha (those stretched letters and numbers that foil spambots--I hadn't known they had a name). Harnessing fun: what a wonderfully devious way to get work done ( Read more... )

Postsecret project ( Read more... )