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K.  //  A linky diarist.

May 21 / 1:38pm

I Read Into Things

Interesting creative writing Tumblog by Glory Szabo:

In this project, I mix fact and fiction to comment on and relay my own life and art that inspires me. As a writer and performing artist, I make up story-lines based on what I get exposed to, and leave the context to my readers' imagination -I think it's fascinating to realize that sometimes people's lives are parallel, sometimes they are perpendicular, and sometimes they just simply intersect at one random point. Furthermore, much of what I write here is essentially brainstorming for the novel I am currently working on. Consider them thought doodles. Consequently, your reaction and feedback can influence whether a particular piece will be included, if that was the intended purpose.

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May 20 / 1:02pm

William S Burroughs and computers

 
William Gibson met Burroughs once:

Some 20 years later, when our paths finally crossed, I asked Burroughs whether he was writing on a computer yet. "What would I want a computer for?" he asked, with evident distaste. "I have a typewriter."


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May 20 / 11:41am

Waldemar Kazak

English Russia has a gallery titled "Cool Illustrations by Waldemar Kazak".
More Waldemar on Deviant Art.

     
Click here to download:
Waldemar_Kazak.zip (138 KB)

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May 20 / 11:34am

The Great Patriotic War

English Russia has photos of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, taken in 2006.


       
Click here to download:
The_Great_Patriotic_War.zip (314 KB)

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May 20 / 7:53am

iPad

Marco has a useful thought about the iPad:

We don’t need every computer-like device to do everything. A gadget just needs to be good at something that you need or want to do.

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May 19 / 12:59pm

Christopher Orr

Christopher Orr at Artsway:

For his most recent series of paintings, begun whilst in residence at ArtSway, Orr has included references to works by old masters, particularly French Rococo painters such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Antoine Watteau – whilst retaining elements of the more bombastic and romantic ideals of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich. Orr also saw his time at ArtSway as affording him the space – both mental and physical – to refresh his practice, to take himself out of his usual urban context, and to embark on a new body of work. This new work, which will be exhibited at ArtSway in April 2010, will be a mixture of old and new techniques and ideas.

   
Click here to download:
Christopher_Orr.zip (225 KB)

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Apr 26 / 2:01pm

Alan Sillitoe

...died, age 82. He was best known for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959). I found his portrayals of alienated working-class kids more complex and realistic than anything in Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.


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Apr 19 / 1:31pm

On Wikipedia

Craig Newmark, of Craigslist.

 I feel quite strongly about the importance of Wikipedia for everyone on the planet. craigslist might help you get through the day, but Wikipedia is becoming our living history, it's really for the ages.

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Apr 16 / 10:25am

5 Gyres

5 Gyres conducts research on marine plastic pollution. The  project currently focuses on the large garbage islands in the world's oceans, like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These aren't really islands of course, as plastic photodegrades into smaller and smaller particles, which eventually form a thick brownish soup. Of course, there are also many larger chunks of plastics floating there as well, and these provide both a hazard to some marine life and a habitat opportunity to others.

From the website:

The 5 Gyres Project will have visited all 5 Gyres soon.  We're collecting samples of plastic pollution from around the world and sharing them with the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, a partner in the project.  The samples are brought to their lab, where they all the plastic inside is divided into different sizes, colors and types.  The goal is to adequately describe and monitor plastic pollution so that we can find the best solution to the problem.


By the way, a gyre is a large system of rotating ocean currents. Each of the five oceans has a massive gyre. Plastic refuse is concentrated in the center of these gyres.

HuffPo has a good photo gallery taken on the voyage of the research vessel Sea Dragon.

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Apr 15 / 12:35pm

Library of Congress to archive Twitter data base

From GigaOm:
But the Library of Congress's archiving our tweets is a reminder of other things as well. For starters, it says that despite the borderless nature of tweeting, Twitter itself remains distinctly American. We may not rule the world, but we own the 140-character-loving universe. International tweeters may have mixed feelings about suddenly finding themselves so strangely localized, so permanently identified with American culture. And even for us Yanks, the library's announcement brings with it the bracing heads-up that when we skimmed over the terms of service, we were granting Twitter the "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed)." All your tweets belong to us!

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