Friday, 29 November 2024
quote [ He undoubtedly was aware of his increased productivity, but as to the quality and substance of the content, as its creator, he perhaps was not best placed to judge. ]
Great quotes on how our tools transform our thoughts.
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quote [ Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. ?For every five people who read this book?, wrote one reviewer, ?four will go insane?. Joshua Blu Buhs recounts Fort?s early life, unfinished manuscripts (?X?, ?Y?), and the philosophical monism that informed his research. ]
Place your palm upon the book of the damned
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Monday, 25 November 2024
quote [ Just publish a story about her! And her life! And what she thinks about it! It seems like a pretty good story! This blog is over! ]
Someone pulled off the coup of getting Cormac McCarthy's muse to speak out followed by the even bigger coup of turning the resulting article into an internet phenomenon.
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Tuesday, 5 November 2024
quote [ synonyms, antonyms, definitions, sentences, thesaurus ]
Searching for the right words ? thought of this when stv179 wondered about the meaning of bulwark.
Are there other thesaurus datasets out there? thumb via Clawmarks
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Friday, 25 October 2024
quote [ There was a time, however?not all that long ago?when you couldn?t Google it or ask Siri or whatever cyber equivalent comes next. You had to do it the hard way?by consulting reference books, indexes, catalogs, almanacs, statistical abstracts, and myriad other printed sources. Or you could save yourself all that time and trouble by taking the easiest available shortcut: You could call me.
[?] Actually, we didn?t know all that stuff; we just knew how to find it. ] Accounts of looking up stuff for people in the 80s.
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Saturday, 7 September 2024
quote [ Nobody knows the true motive behind Krishna Lal Adhikari's writing of Makaiko Kheti ("The Cultivation of Maize"). Was it merely an agricultural guide, or was it a veiled political satire aimed at mocking the then ruler of Nepal, Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana? ]
I don?t know where the maize fields grow
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Sunday, 16 June 2024
quote [ In their original complaint, the publishers contended that the Internet Archive was not a library, but a ā??pirate siteā?:
Yeah no. The Internet Archive is a library. ] Some updates on this ā?? outcome at the end of June. To my knowledge, certain books are already set to preview mode only.
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Thursday, 13 June 2024
quote [ The Carolina Manga library is a nonprofit charity organization based in Southern United States. They are a mobile library that promotes the use of graphic novels, comics, and Japanese manga as tools for improving literacy. ]
Reported by my local library. It's nice to see that there are still people promoting books instead of banning them. I thought it was interesting that there were people rallying together to champion their favorite type of literature and the roving library concept was neat too.
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Tuesday, 11 June 2024
quote [ Why does fiction do such a bad job of portraying fat characters? ]
I had to write the great American novel
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