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Saturday September 22, 2007
Text Saturday
- This is why I don’t do things like this: because eventually, Google will just come along and make it better (and in this case, I still need some convincing that this is worth any effort at all).
- Jason Kottke’s gems from the archives of the New York Times and first NY Times restaurant review, circa 1859?
- Richard Dawkins: What if you’re wrong?
- Cramming hurts your long-term memory.
- Chuck Klosterman, the Author Photos. In his book IV, Klosterman discusses the outfit in the last photo. He purchased it from a Gap where a mannequin was wearing all three items (shirt, sweater, jeans), because “(a) I assume the kind of people who dress mannequins spend a lot of time considering aesthetics, (b) this eliminated the decision making, and (c) I am somewhat ‘mannequin-shaped.’”
- Famous literary lines and how to use them in conversation.
- Bid farewell to the hyphen.
- Book sculptures. See also the photography of Abelardo Morell.
- William Strunk Jr’s The Elements of Style, pre-White’s additions (but you really do need the full version, with White’s stuff).
- Great History Channel documentary about Freemasonry. No conspiracy theories here, just lots of great history. (Also lots of goofiness — “the concept of the three”? “the concept of the four”??)
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Library Thing is in quasi-secret discussions with Google about linking the two.
The hyphen story is interesting, and oddly synchronous, as i was just discussing the various forms of em- and en-dashes and how they differ from hyphens.
mkh~
The hyphen thing is via fimoculous, where I commented relevantly to your concerns. Check that ‘a list apart’ article — it’s great.
It would be great if all your data-entry work into LT isn’t rendered redundant, but tell me: what, really, is the point of all this?
For me it’s been two-fold. For one, it’s one of the few examples of a soc-net working for me — I’ve met a couple of kindred spirits via LT’s community, and the LT recommendation engine works pretty well by comparing mutual ownerships and tagging to find related works and authors. (The UnSuggester is also a hoot. You should try it.) For the second, though, it’s simple economics. I’ve had my home burglarized enough times to like having on-line reference of what I own in case a bunch of stuff goes missing. It came in quite handy when my insurance company questioned the four dozen DVDs the burglars stole the last time I was subjected to a little B&E action.
The links in 3 and 6 are the same. Plus, are you sure Klostermann says the mannequin was from the Gap? He says J.Crew in the caption of the photo. I don’t have IV (Klostermann is repetitive) so I can’t check.
mkh~ That makes sense. Knock on wood, I haven’t ever had my place broken into (and don’t have insurance regardless), but I’m sure there are other fun aspects; file under: someday/maybe. Unsuggester is pretty cool.
Alex~ “He” doesn’t say — the slideshow captions are written in 1st person by somebody else just having fun; obviously somebody who didn’t even bother to read the book (which, yes, is fun but redundant after SD&CP).
don’t understand the unsuggester thing and freemasons are all too scary…they have a hold on things i can’t grasp. oh, wow…more i don’t get…great…btw that link/video explains nothing! except the description about the compass and square, probably the coolest symbol of all time.
klosterman is super dorky looking (and so is alesh.).