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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog...

Wed, 30 May 2012 11:02:43 -0400

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

—Groucho Marx

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful” people. But it does desperately..."

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:00:00 -0400

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful” people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.”

- David W. Orr (via Doug Noon)

"The monsters from Wild Things were based on his own relatives. They would visit his house in..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:10:50 -0400

“The monsters from Wild Things were based on his own relatives. They would visit his house in Brooklyn when he was growing up (“All crazy – crazy faces and wild eyes”) and pinch his cheeks until they were red.”

- Maurice Sendak: ‘I refuse to lie to children’

A week of a student’s electrodermal activity

Wed, 02 May 2012 09:01:00 -0400

A week of a student’s electrodermal activity

Photo

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:52:00 -0400

"While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet..."

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:22:22 -0400

“While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror using my cellphone. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture.”

- Nina Katchadourian

Video

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:30:26 -0400

"The idea of the state collecting distinctive biometric information from people who haven’t even been..."

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:10:31 -0400

“The idea of the state collecting distinctive biometric information from people who haven’t even been charged with a crime yet, much less convicted of one, makes civil libertarians nervous. Unlike fingerprints, no law was ever passed to require iris photographs — it’s just a policy.”

- Disinformation

"The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously,..."

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:20:16 -0400

““The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults….” - Arnold Toynbee, Experiences”

"As former University of California President Clark Kerr once observed, the 85 human institutions..."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:00:40 -0400

“As former University of California President Clark Kerr once observed, the 85 human institutions that have survived in recognizable form for the last 500 years include the Catholic Church, a few Swiss cantons, the Parliaments of Iceland and the Isle of Man, and about 70 universities.”

"I’ve built instapaper placebo because instapaper itself is too complex for what I need. I don’t need..."

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:20:19 -0500

“I’ve built instapaper placebo because instapaper itself is too complex for what I need. I don’t need a nice mobile app for reading. I don’t need a way to remove all the clutter from the page. I don’t need an online cross-platform bookmark syncing service. I just need a way of offloading all my good intentions. A way to stop hoarding links.”

- Instapaper Placebo

"Working under the Internet alias “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two allegedly..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:09:53 -0500

“Working under the Internet alias “Sabu,” the unemployed, 28-year-old father of two allegedly commanded a loosely organized, international team of perhaps thousands of hackers from his nerve center in a public housing project on New York’s Lower East Side.”

"Who said you have a right to cash money from writing? Poets don’t get paid (often), but there’s no..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:17:52 -0500

“Who said you have a right to cash money from writing? Poets don’t get paid (often), but there’s no poetry shortage. The future is going to be filled with amateurs, and the truly talented and persistent will make a great living. But the days of journeyman writers who make a good living by the word — over.”

- Godin to authors

"Following an endorsement, there is a reduction in the aggregate sales of adult fiction—the category..."

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:32:19 -0500

“Following an endorsement, there is a reduction in the aggregate sales of adult fiction—the category containing the majority of Club endorsements. I provide evidence suggesting that Winfrey endorsed harder books than would have been otherwise purchased. Given that the cost of a book is a combination of the retail price and the time necessary to complete the text, the post-endorsement sales decrease can be seen as resulting from the shift of purchases towards more expensive products.”

- Celebrity_Book Endorsements

"Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you..."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:42:42 -0500

“Moral of the story: the internet makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it, or don’t have the background to ask the right questions, you’ll end up with a head full of nonsense. But if you do know how to use it, it’s an endless wealth of information. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over the past few decades, the internet is now a major driver of the growth of cognitive inequality. Caveat emptor.”

- Mother Jones

"My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music for one and said,..."

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:02:51 -0500

“My 10-year-old, who likes to make little videos on his laptop, wanted some music for one and said, ‘Dad, can I go on the Internet and get your music?’” Glass says. “And I said, ‘Sure you can.’ He came back about 20 minutes later and said, ‘Dad, I just downloaded your whole catalog.’ He’s 10 years old. He’s 10 years old!”

- Philip Glass’s Life as an East Village

Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:41:26 -0500

Noam Chomsky - The Purpose of Education

"Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more...."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:18:52 -0500

“Productive learning is the learning process which engenders and reinforces wanting to learn more. Absent wanting to learn, the learning context is unproductive or counterproductive.”

- Seymour Sarason; And What Do YOU Mean by Learning?

"For the first time in history, colleges and universities fully control the means of eTextbook..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:22:02 -0500

“For the first time in history, colleges and universities fully control the means of eTextbook production, start to finish, inception to delivery. They need no help in producing world class eTextbooks. The seeds of revolution are in hand.”

- Thinking About Tomorrow

robertogreco: MUST WATCH: Wilson Miner on “When We Build” at...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:46:53 -0500

robertogreco:

MUST WATCH: Wilson Miner on “When We Build” at Build

Update: Here’s a link to Wilson’s notes, including references. I’ll have more to say about this, but that will have to wait for now. Watch the video. Watch the video.