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The Lynch spooky Dragons trailer.
“ Like countless other intellectual fads over the years (“relevance,” communism, “modernism,” and so on—history is littered with them) OOP [Object-oriented programming] will be with us until eventually reality asserts itself. But considering how OOP currently pervades both universities and workplaces, OOP may well prove to be a durable delusion. Entire generations of indoctrinated programmers continue to march out of the academy, committed to OOP and nothing but OOP for the rest of their lives.
Richard Mansfield, author and former editor of COMPUTE! magazine (1979–1994), on transcending the subject/object dichotomy.
Murray Tinkleman.
“ Throughout the run-up to the crisis — the bubble — people were so excited with what they were doing. Suddenly that dream disappears. People had the option of sinking into some sort of sadness about it, some national depression, or the alternative, trying to figure out a new way of doing things.
A Vision of Iceland as a Haven for Journalists, NYTimes.com.
Strandkai Club, Hamburg, DE.
Henry Miller interviewed by George Wickes (1962)
INTERVIEWER: Didn’t you say somewhere, “I am for obscenity and against pornography”?
MILLER: Well, it’s very simple. The obscene would be the forthright, and pornography would be the roundabout. I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. … In other words, obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.
— The Paris Review (Art of Fiction No. 28)
via Melissa Gira Grant.
At TED today my friend Cindy Gallop demoed her site If We Ran The World, which I’ve been ridiculously excited to see come to life ever since hearing her idea. It’ll be going live for all soon (possibly even tonight). It went live tonight.
Just as exciting, Julia is their lead developer! All I can say is, you had me at “If I ran the world I would give everyone a dome to live in.” <3<3<3
Kickstarter office
via Andrew Cornett.
“ Pleasure and pain are self-revelation.
Zinc fingers help read DNA sequences.
