The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition - ReadWriteWeb (to read when I have the moments) (tags: argybargy economics)...
Love the Chuck Berryesque walking bits:...
via BoingBoing:I've never seen an analysis of ballet classes as rite de passage for females of certain age range and class (or the not-unrelated horse-craziness either), but something of the sort cries out to be written. I'm forever grateful that...
It's the most delicious pleasure to linger over bits of prose like this, where every word and clause is artfully placed to inform the reader:Since those moments on the terrace, Harold had daily become more of the solicitous and indirectly...
Well, I'm a sucker for Cusack films:...
I've been a student of things Chinese for many years, via heaps of basically-Orientalist books and articles following decades of modernization efforts and historical context. That used to be a leisurely pursuit, with plenty to read and meditate upon, and...
Kevin Kelly links to this nice bit of video, from the film Mystic Ball:The Mystic Ball site notes that the Burmese Chinlone is...related to similar games in Southeast Asia known as takraw in Thailand, sepak raga in Malaysia, Singapore and...
Self-portraiture and emerging artistic consciousness in Dafen via BoingBoing and Howard Rhinegold: "A single village in China is responsible for cranking out 60% of the world's paintings..." (tags: portraits china curiosa) Vietnamese guitar which has extremely scalloped fretboard (tags:...
The whole thing is a wonderful demo of overtone singing, but NB at the end, 3:10 to 3:16, he builds a sonic stupa:See lots more on his YouTube page. Those wishing to play with sonography might try Raven Lite, a...
During my years of wandering the Groves of Academe I read many thousands of pages of books and papers, and (I can see now) shuttled from one enthusiasm to the next, driven and drawn, blown and tumbled through a vast...
Maybe you hadda been conscious in the 1950s to appreciate the ...erm... poignancy of this, which arrived via the usually sober-sided Crooked Timber, but the whole awful savor of the 1950s is available, in color, for your delectation:...and this one...
Zydeco in the back seat Back Seat Duet: 1938 from Shorpy (Russell Lee did wonderful work) (tags: photography musics)...
Google Earth 4.3 a nice intro to the new features (tags: geospatial googleearth) Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger. And if you care, eat less meat George Monbiot: "...While 100m tonnes of food will be diverted this...
Cajun scarytrousers Fais Do-Do: 1938 from Shorpy (tags: photography musics) Scary Trousers: the etymon Neil Gaiman tells the story (tags: video scarytrousers)...
Fargo Yeah (tags: video supercuts) every 'Dude' from The Big Lebowski (tags: video supercuts) on Index Supercuts from unmediated (tags: supercuts) Cajun Cooking: 1938 from Shorpy (tags: musics photography) On The Limits Of Memory (Laura & Edna) from The...
Amanda Palmer herself, on herself:...
This from 1963, and they don't make 'em like that anymore:...
To persuade you that McDaid's Keyboard Practice belongs in your life, I offer these: Of software:These tools are all written by programmers driven by frightful agendas: lobbying memos from marketing, quarterly marching orders from managers, apologetic memos from engineering VPs...
I still find myself gnawing on the old bones of what it is to Teach, and to Learn. Now and again a ray of clarity breaks through the fug, and today's case in point is Daniel Holz' Ave atque Vale...
On food pricing from Jo Walsh at Mapping Hacks (tags: food politics agriculture)...
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