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Behind-the-scenes photograph of director Stanley Kubrick standing on the set of the hedge maze during production of The Shining.
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Chance the Gardener: "This is just like television, only you can see much further."
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Away for the weekend, Friday
I have been moving kitsch bavarian furniture in an archaic hotel room, trying to find an outlet for my phone. It is likely that the building was built before electricity was discovered (invented?).
If I had wanted to fully escape for a couple if days, I could have left my phone behind; a complete “silence your devices.”
But the issue is, I would have to deal with the unpleasant welcome of an overflowing inbox and unread texts come Monday. And that onerous accumulation would hover over at least the rest of my week.
So I am fielding incoming text communications. But I have not talked on the phone once, nor do I intend to. The haphazard & impersonal nature of text allows me to stay in my retreat, enjoying complimentary packaged coffee, strolls around town, terrible tv movies, and other “trivial” acts. Through text, I can be, still at work, in an airport, sick, overseas, & doing nothing significant. No one will know.
No calls please.
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Wow. Bolivia’s coca farmers make a living criss-crossing deep valleys on a web of makeshift cables high above forest canopy.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/2011/05/20115811409577464.html
Risking it all - Bolivia (by AlJazeeraEnglish)
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Snow Drawings (by Steamboataerials)
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Catching Up
I fell asleep at the helm, and now have a whole lot of things to look in to.
- A collection of award-winning photos by Rémi Ochlik, who was killed this week in Syria.
- The Public Domain Review is one year old as of Jan 1, 2012. It’s like a mashup of New York/London Review of Books, Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive.
- Satellite views of the world’s largest slums
- “There are two ways to fish, with nets or without. But if I fish with violence, will my nets be full of blood?“ Fishing Without Nets is a short film about Somali pirates from their point of view, which won the recent Sundance Jury Prize in short filmmaking.
- How a swashbuckling breed of mathematicians and computer scientists nearly destroyed Wall Street.
- Australian Woman Scams More Than $30,000 From Nigerian Scam Artists
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“Dude,” the quintessential American slang term, may have been brought to the U.S. by immigrants.
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"Getting the story out from here is what we got into journalism for,” - Marie Colvin"
— Syria Correspondent Wanted Her Reporting Read Outside Pay Walls - NYTimes.com
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The kids are alright
One of my grievances with the copious information made accessible by digital media is that I am incessantly reminded of my inferiority to others. Now before you call me out for diffidence, mind that I am comparing myself to young savants—not exactly my peers. While I know that such collation is inappropriate, it happens, and it is not my fault. It is the fault of the parents who champion their prodigies for all the Internet to ogle. Por ejemplo,
- Magnus Carlsen on 60 Minutes. (via @seangraf)
- French preschoolers on Twitter.
- 11-year-old Nanaka is good at skateboarding. [SLYT]
I recall a car ride years ago where I thought that I had discovered a pattern innate in arithmetic. The minutiae of my discovery escape me, but it was something to the effect that a sequence of consecutive numbers iterates back and forth between an amount that can equally split, and amounts that cannot be equally split. It felt as if I had cracked the code of our mysterious universe. But not much further along that car ride, I remembered a teacher having discussed “odds and evens.” Thanks to the Internet, I no longer have to struggle with the illusion that I might be brilliant.Also, I am digging this M.I.A. track, “Bad Girls.”
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