February 2010
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Blind Spots →
Visual Cognition Lab.
Plenty of visual experiments.
January 2010
20 posts
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Diesel: SFW XXX Birthday
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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...
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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
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We lived in a preoccupation as complete as that of a dream.
– Marie Curie
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Bach needed a model; Picasso needed a model. Make a point of reading writers who...
– William Zinsser
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You don’t read Jane Austen with admiration because of a courtship interest...
– Dennis Dutton
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Orson Welles' Journal →
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for...
– Oscar Wilde
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Of course, the only acceptable lowbrows are the ones who know their place, who...
– Confessions of a Middlebrow
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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...
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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
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse...
– Albert Camus (?)
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Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves.
– Harold and Maude (1971)