Aug 20 2008
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First spiral notebook
Article on the first spiral notebook, from the September 1934 issues of Popular Science.
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“ Rock’n’roll’s great tragedy is that its most passionate and vocal fans not only fail to grasp the entire point of rock’n’roll, they are its half-living anti-existentialist antithesis.
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Manny Farber...
…died, age 91. A painter and movie critic, he was best known for his influential essay, “White Elephant Art and Termite Art:”
“Termite art,” on the other hand, has “no ambitions towards gilt culture” and “goes always forward eating its own boundaries.” The aim of termite art is “buglike immersion in a small area without point or aim, and, over all, concentration on nailing down one moment without glamorizing it. But forgetting this accomplishment as soon as it has been passed; the feeling that all is expendable, that it can be chopped up and flung down in a different arrangement without ruin.”
Aug 19 2008
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Newspaper blackout poems. austinklean,
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Powernotes
Old St. Petersburg Times article on Senator Bob Graham’s notebooks:
The notebooks are little spiral pads made by North Carolina Paper Company. When the were discontinued in the 1990s, Graham bought out the remaining supply.
Graham, 66, has filled nearly 4,000 notebooks since he first ran for governor in 1977. The entries — in ballpoint ink in Graham’s meticulous cursive — provide a unique glimpse into the life of a senator/grandfather/raisin bran eater.
The notebooks are little spiral pads made by North Carolina Paper Company. When the were discontinued in the 1990s, Graham bought out the remaining supply.
Aug 15 2008
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Dangerous Women
Dangerous Women, the summer show at DFN Gallery, NYC.
Although it sounds like the lurid title of a Jim Thompson crime novel, Dangerous Women is curated within the tradition of female figure painting, photography and cinema - where even the tamest representation of the female form can be a loaded image. While a few of the images exhibited are more obviously “dangerous” or risqué as in Alyssa Monk’s Press, or Heather Morgan’s Hello Kitty, none are passive and most run askew if not counter, to the literal meaning of dangerous women.
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Lego PC
When PC Magazine needed a LEGO PC for the cover of their magazine, I was happy to help out, and created a colorful PC out of LEGO bricks. The folks over at PC Magazine liked it so much, they decided they wanted to have a contest where they gave away a working PC built out of LEGO bricks. Oh what fun.
Aug 14 2008
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Notes and Queries, #1, Nov 3, 1849
Can any man, in his wildest dream of imagination, conceive of anything that may not be—nay, that has not been—treated of in a note?
Aug 13 2008
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Quote on PC surveillance software
The makers of the Spector360 will tell you that their product will “significantly reduce the amount of goofing off that has grown common in most workplaces (one hour per day per employee, on average).” What they won’t tell you is that you’re a jerk. If your employees are watching “Funny Cats 3” all day long, the problem isn’t unfiltered access to the Internet. The problem is that your workplace is boring, and probably very sad.
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Quote on PC surveillance software
The makers of the Spector360 will tell you that their product will “significantly reduce the amount of goofing off that has grown common in most workplaces (one hour per day per employee, on average).” What they won’t tell you is that you’re a jerk. If your employees are watching “Funny Cats 3” all day long, the problem isn’t unfiltered access to the Internet. The problem is that your workplace is boring, and probably very sad.
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Aug 08 2008
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“ Like the CPC, western observers have robbed the events of June 1989 of their agency. They have removed from the frame thousands of protesting workers, and instead spread a simple morality tale about how people just like them – educated students and professors – tried to win a bit of “civil society” in 1989. They have abused the memory of June 1989, turning it into a weapon to be used as part of their human rights agenda for China. In the process, they, too, have insulted the dead of 1989, and have done great harm to history.