Far – a long long way to run
What a fun video. Now I want to watch the movie and learn the dance.
links for 2009-04-14
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Ah, youth. Sweet awkwardness & gawky self-consciousness, how I don't miss you a bit.
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More on the Amazon deranking problem.
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Given that I'm an Amazon affiliate, I'll be digging into this further and potentially changing my affiliation.
links for 2009-04-11
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An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself Monday after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother’s weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. This is at least the fourth suicide of a middle-school aged child linked to bullying this year.
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In the "you have to be fucking kidding me" department — "The show's working title is "Someone's Gotta Go." Employees are called to a meeting and informed there will be layoffs, but with a reality show twist: The staff will be allowed to determine who is fired." Wanna take bets on how long it will be before someone shows up with a gun and takes out everyone?
Project Fill-in-the-Gaps
Project Fill-in-the-Gaps created by Moonrat on her blog Editorial Ass: fill in the gaps in your reading lists of classics and contemporary fiction. Make a list of 100 titles, give yourself 5 years to complete reading the list, and give yourself 25% “accident forgiveness” – consider the task accomplished if you achieve 75 titles in the time span. I found this via some blog or other — and sent it to Stephanie, who loves these sorts of projects and immediately put together her list.
I have some rather heavy lifting on my list (Proust!!!!!!) so I have 65 76 titles, rather than 100.
Reading Deadline: April 10, 2014
* = I own the book
Italic = I’ve started it
strikethrough = I’ve finished it
- Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale *
- Ballard: Crash
- Samuel Butler: Way of All Flesh
- Celine: Death on the Installment Plan *
- Cervantes: Don Quixote *
- Chaucer: Canterbury Tales *
- Chopin: The Awakening *
- Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell *
- Collins: The Moonstone *
- Connolly: The Book of Lost Things *
- Conrad: The Secret Agent *
- Danielewski: House of Leaves *
- Dreiser: An American Tragedy
- Don DeLillo: Underworld *
- Elliot: Middlemarch *
- Ellison: Juneteenth *
- Gibson & Sterling: The Difference Engine
- Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha *
- Highsmith: The Talented Mr. Ripley *
- Hilton: Lost Horizon *
- Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
- James: The Golden Bowl *
- James: The Portrait of a Lady *
- Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
- Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man *
- Lethem:
Motherless Brooklyn * - Lewis: Main Street
- Maugham: The Razor’s Edge *
- McCarty: The Road *
- McEwan: Atonement *
- Melville: Moby Dick *
- Moore: Fool
- Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
- O’Connor: A Good Man is Hard To Find *
- Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago
- Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 1) Swann’s Way *
- Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 2) In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower *
- Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 3) The Guermantes Way *
- Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 4) Sodom and Gomorrah *
- Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 5 & 6) The Prisoner & The Fugitive *
- Proust: (In Search of Lost Time – Vol 7) Finding Time Again *
- Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel *
- Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea *
- Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated *
- Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men *
- Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma *
- Sterne: A Sentimental Journey *
- Stephenson: Cryptonomicon *
- Gene Stratton Porter: A Girl of the Limber Lost *
- Donna Tartt: A Secret History *
- Tolstoy: Anna Karenina *
- Updike: TBD *
- Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea *
- Wallace: Infinite Jest *
- Wharton: The House of Mirth *
- Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle *
- Richard Yates: Revolutionary Road *
- Zusak:
The Book Thief* - Bloom: Shakespeare – The Invention of the Human *
- Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything *
- Campbell: The Hero of a Thousand Faces *
- Dawkins: The God Delusion *
- Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel *
- Diamond: Collapse *
- Jacobs: Life and Death of Cities *
- Jacobs: Economy of Cities *
- Jacobs: Nature of Economies *
- Steven Johnson: The Ghost Map *
- Pinker: The Blank Slate *
- Stein: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas *
- Weisman: The World Without Us *
- Zimbardo: The Lucifer Effect *
- Burroughs: Queer *
- Dickinson: Complete Works
- Plath: The Bell Jar *
- Whitman: Leaves of Grass *
links for 2009-04-09
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Medical officers who oversaw interrogations of terrorism suspects in CIA secret prisons committed gross violations of medical ethics and in some cases essentially participated in torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a confidential report that labeled the CIA program "inhuman."
More Go Iowa! news
Iowa State Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal’s speech on the State Senate floor, explaining why he will not support an effort to amend the state’s constitution to reverse the recent unanimous ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in Iowa.
That’s just awesome.
links for 2009-04-08
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All the rules I plan tp break.
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Thanks to the economic meltdown, ensuing AIG bonuses, and promotion of economic criminals to top White House jobs, it has never been more clear that the American economy and political system is one that rewards everything we say we don't want to reward.
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A social networking site centered around art, with videos and presentations about exhibits in museums around the country. I spent a huge amount of time just playing…
links for 2009-04-07
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Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite
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Lorem ipsum already in html tags for quick prototyping.
Stimulating Reading
My feed reader is often a bloodbath; I add to and purge my regular web reading ruthlessly, and yet it’s always overstuffed and I’m perpetually behind. There are some mainstays; ego surfing my own feeds and some friends to whom I would feel embarrassed conversing In Real Life if I hadn’t kept up with their online presence. I have obligatory web design and development reading, but I often mark them all read and just search if there’s a solution I need, because if I spend much time thinking about work after hours my head would probably asplode.
My regular topic areas have shifted drastically as of late; I have now only follow two sites that deal with political issues in any form (that used to be my primary reading) and there are a large number of photography sites in my list. And lately I’ve been purging lots of high volume sites and sites that don’t write original content. Gone are the link aggregators (I know that’s ironic since many of my blog posts are that lately) in favorite of longer, in depth reading that I have to spend more time thinking about. I’m still having trouble keeping up with the reading, but it is at least more satisfying.
Here are a few of my favorites (most new and some old):
Where
The Urbanophile
Politically, I disagree with him quite a bit, but he does know his urban development, which is something I know very little about but find quite interesting. I think if I were to win the lottery, I’d get a masters in urban planning. And then run for mayor.
3 Quarks Daily
Ben and Alice
Roger Ebert’s Journal
C-Monster.net
Tomorrow Museum
Neil Gaiman’s Journal
Scouting NY
and of course Shakesville.
More and more I’m considering wholesale purging my feed reader of all but these select few, in hopes of actually staying on top of all my reading. Maybe someday soon.
links for 2009-04-05
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Interesting. I'm not a fan of suburban living, and Indianapolis clearly has a suburbia problem.
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Indianapolis is on the move. Everybody loves downtown, but what happens when you look beyond Indy’s charming City Center? You’ll discover a metropolis brimming with colorful neighborhoods, each with a style and personality all its own. That’s Unsung Indy, and this is your guide to its many offerings.
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Museum Collection of historic Vegas neon signs. One of the places we want to visit while out in Vegas.
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