Quick links to a week’s worth of browsing:
Design: flowerlike lightbulb unfurls as it warms up. [via sensory impact] Craziness: every year two Greek monasteries bombard each other with fireworks. [via Nemo Ramjet] Life/art mutual imitation: A British explorer disappears in the Amazon jungle, while looking for a lost city. Attempts to find his remains, and the city he searched for, are [...]
Ik zit nu in de advanced cursus van de INTT, maar ik ben niet helemaal tevreden met wat van ons verwacht is. Ik ben bang, eerlijk gezegd, dat ik het niet kan halen. Wij zijn namelijk afgelopen vrijdag begonnen met lezen van Jip en Janneke — dat is toch heel snel, in de eerste les! [...]
One of the joys of having a flat tag list instead of a hierarchy is that every now and then you get totally unexpected combinations: “dutch” and “interactive fiction”, for instance.
Congratulations to Victor Gijsbers, whose “De Baron/The Baron” won this year’s Spring Thing (original text Dutch, also with his English translation). You can download the [...]
From a talk I attended recently (slightly paraphrased, I was slow off the mark writing the quote down):
> Orson Welles, > Brave New World, anybody read that > book? They have a ministry redefining language so that people can’t talk about political > concepts like going to war.
I was slow off the mark because I was having difficulty [...]
Probably the last LT post for a while, but the recommendations feature just got augmented with a “Why?” link showing which books you own prompted the suggestion. It’s pretty neat. I seem to have hit basically two clusters: “Assigned for an English Lit. course” (The Great Gatsby, Dubliners, On the Road, Steppenwolf, Labyrinths, The Baron [...]
Just a note on why I haven’t raved about Rome: I didn’t see much of it. And I didn’t get lost, or deliver my talk to the wrong conference, or save the Pope from an embarrassing situation involving jellied eels, or anything else noteworthy. I did a little sightseeing but at night, so the monumental [...]
It seems to be my week for playing with LT. I just read a book so awful that I wanted to write a review slamming it (especially given the injustice of this publicity BS turning up first in Google — that’s a nofollow link) but I don’t want it on my LT profile. So I [...]
LibraryThing has added a few different statistical recommendation lists (mine). This is really fun to play with.
I’m starting a habit: Café Alto once a week for the live jazz. Regular band Mondays and Tuesdays, good old-fashioned swing and boogie-woogie (*cough* as far as I know — not so good on naming styles); the other nights vary. They start at 10 and play until 2. No cover charge, but the beers are a [...]
Off tomorrow to the EvoLang conference, in Rome. Wheee! Back Sunday evening.