Site Search
-
-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- sign if i can totter on Read recently: The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
- Group read: Seven American Nights | Grobstein on Read recently: The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
- Gene Wolfe on Group read: Seven American Nights
- Gene Wolfe Blitzer on Group read: Seven American Nights
- Allie Alzabo on Group read: Seven American Nights
Archives
Meta
Monthly Archives: April 2008
Guess who looks like Thom Yorke?
And I don’t mean Ludwig Wittgenstein. (via Doug Norton, Ph.D. candidate, Yale)
Posted in Uncategorized
4 Comments
More NY sandwiches
Mouthwatering piece in NYT (hurf durf). Not eating meat constitutes a significant sandwich handicap, but I can still check out something like a potato knish press (!). Also: green falafel!? (I really love green things.)
Posted in Food
Leave a comment
GNXP: What predicts creationism?
Gene Expression reproduces a cool chart on factors that help explain attitude toward evolution. One interesting tidbit: Americans’ reported attitudes toward science and technology appear to be unrelated to attitudes toward evolution.
Posted in science
Leave a comment
NYT: Chinese Students in US Fight View of Their Home
A story that must be obvious in some ways. But what’s most striking are the aggressive mass tactics detailed again and again. These are not, remember, embassy protesters bussed in from the countryside; they’re students at top (American) universities. At … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
1 Comment
Deerhoof Rite of Spring?
Am I reading this correctly? Is Deerhoof doing a Rite of Spring? I can’t get a definitive read from Internet sources, PF seems to think that the Rite of Spring will be an opener for a Deerhoof performance (of Deerhoof … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Leave a comment
Dystopic visions of (post-)human evolution from Nick Bostrom (also: SF treatments?)
Just read this oldish (2004) paper from Nick Bostrom of FHI at Oxford (the simulation hypothesis guy) about scenarios of (continued) human evolution that are not pleasant. (Incidentally, the only SF treatment of these ideas I know is Stross’s Accelerando, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
New hero: Henry Salt
Early animal rights writer and activist. Among other things published “The Brutalitarian” — a “Journal for the Sane and Strong” — to hoax and satirize the “sportsmen” defenders of hunting.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
NYT on Clinton TV ad
Hilarious NYT editorial description of this late-Pennsylvania Hillary ad: A Clinton television ad — torn right from Karl Rove’s playbook — evoked the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban missile crisis, the cold war and the 9/11 attacks, … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Appleseed
Finished reading Appleseed Sunday, or at least got through it. I enjoyed it a lot, but I don’t really feel like I understood it. And I don’t have (or anticipate having) the time or energy to really figure it out … Continue reading