“Think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” — Charles Dickens
- Google Traffic Throttling : Does G traffic get shut off once you hit your designated plateau?
- Phasing out textbooks : Idiocracy moves another step closer to Socialist Realism
- On not linking to thin-content (spammish) sites : Do everyone a favor, dont be taken in
- The End of The Critic : Is there no value in educated opinion?
- Jamnitzer Perspectiva : Wonderful 16th-c geometric solid forms
- Listen to the Music of the Spheres : I find Freecorder works best with Explorer rather than Firefox
- Why are e-books so expensive : No, really, why?
- No this isn’t the Dude : It’s Thomas Pynchon narrating a trailer for Inherent Vice
Duly quoted
- “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.” — George Orwell
jameshigham
Jamnitzer Perspectiva really was wonderful.