December 2010
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Hm. Seems to be a slight problem with text rendering of quotes on the site today. Regular service will be resumed shortly.
*crosses fingers.
**time for a new template?
UPDATE (@19:24): Text is back. First quotes went down, then all of the text on the site went down, and now it’s all back. I figure the template I’m currently using here runs via some text replacement for rendering...
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A poem is never going to be a copy of the real world or a...
– Travis Nichols: Rachel Zucker Doesn’t Write Your Mother’s Mom Poems
We are en mal d’archive: in need of archives. Listening to the French idiom…to...
– Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever. From Matthew Ogle’s excellent love letter to the post real-time web:
I feel a growing sense — both from a technology and a UX standpoint — that displaying a reverse-chronological list of “stuff happening now” is not enough…letting us discover and interact with both...
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Naturally, working some type of backup into your personal workflow is prudent in...
– Mod Librarian » The Unappetizing Demise of Delicious
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I’ve always had the sense about the way that people store their experiences...
– - Swoon.
Pitch Design Union » Blog Archive » Swooning over Swoon
… the most impressive people I know are all procrastinators… they put off...
– Paul Graham, via Rob Greco (someday you should read through all 21,000 of his delicious bookmarks)
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Although I also know that it’s true that a writer’s country isn’t his language...
– Roberto Bolaño (via helloandroidface)
The revolutions of the future will appear in forms we don’t even recognise—in a...
– What happens next? « Prospect Magazine
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The question isn’t what will books become in a world of electronic reading. The...
– Editorial Notebook - Some Thoughts About E-Reading