February 2010
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Blind Spots →
Visual Cognition Lab. Plenty of visual experiments.
Feb 1st
January 2010
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Diesel: SFW XXX Birthday
Jan 31st
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Bunch of Phonies →
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. “He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of...
Jan 30th
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“I’m Catholic and I can’t commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.”
– Jack Kerouac, Literary Drunks & Addicts
Jan 28th
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“We lived in a preoccupation as complete as that of a dream.”
– Marie Curie
Jan 27th
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“Bach needed a model; Picasso needed a model. Make a point of reading writers who...”
– William Zinsser
Jan 27th
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“You don’t read Jane Austen with admiration because of a courtship interest...”
– Dennis Dutton
Jan 26th
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Orson Welles' Journal →
Jan 26th
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“The only horrible thing in the world is ­ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for...”
– Oscar Wilde
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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“Of course, the only acceptable lowbrows are the ones who know their place, who...”
– Confessions of a Middlebrow
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author →
By Lauren Leto My favorites: Thomas Aquinas Premature ejaculators. Stephen King 11th graders who peed their pants while watching the movie It. Lewis Carroll People who move to Thailand after high school for the drug scene. Albert Camus People who went to art school after “trying it out” at a public university. Kurt Vonnegut People who played Creep by Radiohead while having sex or...
Jan 16th
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Jan 9th
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“As she sees it, Emily Bronte, the so-called sphinx of English literature, was an...”
– The Oddest of a Very Odd Family A Chainless: Soul A Life of Emily Bronte By Katherine Frank
Jan 8th
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“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse...”
– Albert Camus (?)
Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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“Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves.”
– Harold and Maude (1971)
Jan 7th