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Issue #28 of Robert Wright’s Mindful Resistance newsletter (highly recommended) has a piece answering the question “What is the Mindful Response to a School Shooting?” I can’t believe I live in a time where something like that needs to be written…and I wish I could believe something will change.
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Jason Kottke is an inspiration to many, not least for his longevity. Any reader of Katexic CLippings has to be familiar with his work and should read Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”: How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20
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Take a gander at the Star Wars posters of Soviet Europe.
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Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? → Thanks to the indefatigable Reader B.! || See also: a notable link in the article which I shared here years ago, but deserves a new look now that the project is now live: BabelNet
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Daily Art Magazine has painstakingly documented every piece of art in all four seasons of BoJack Horseman.
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Mr. Rogers is getting a stamp. About time. Related new-to-me news: Catherine O’Hara has Canadian stamp.
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Explore the Largest Known Early Map of the World, Assembled for the First Time.
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Take a minute for this beautiful Google Arts & Culture exhibit of Japanese paper wrapping: Ogasawara-Ryu Origata Wrapping.
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The images of the crowd, at least as interested in the woman who was supposed to “pull the trap,” are as horrifying as the photos of the condemned at the last public execution in the US.
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Today the annual plum blossom festival is celebrated at the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, with a special tea ceremony (Baikasai) performed by geiko (geisha) and apprentices (maiko) for more than 3000 visitors. While the outdoor tea ceremony dates back to “only” 1952, the shrine was built in 947.
First Episode of Mr. Rogers
Goose house covers “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
I was skeptical, but this ► cover of “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by Japanese group Goose house won me over.
John Perry Barlow
- Be patient. No matter what.
- Don’t badmouth: Assign responsibility, not blame. Say nothing of another you wouldn’t say to him.
- Never assume the motives of others are, to them, less noble than yours are to you.
- Expand your sense of the possible.
- Don’t trouble yourself with matters you truly cannot change.
- Expect no more of anyone than you can deliver yourself.
- Tolerate ambiguity.
- Laugh at yourself frequently.
- Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.
- Never forget that, no matter how certain, you might be wrong.
- Give up blood sports.
- Remember that your life belongs to others as well. Don’t risk it frivolously.
- Never lie to anyone for any reason. (Lies of omission are sometimes exempt.)
- Learn the needs of those around you and respect them.
- Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that.
- Reduce your use of the first personal pronoun.
- Praise at least as often as you disparage.
- Admit your errors freely and soon.
- Become less suspicious of joy.
- Understand humility.
- Remember that love forgives everything.
- Foster dignity.
- Live memorably.
- Love yourself.
- Endure.
—John Perry Barlow (RIP)
—from: unknown, to me, but dates back to at least 1977
tribology
tribology /triy-BAWL-ə-jee/. noun. The study of fiction, lubrication and wear between interacting surfaces. From Greek tribos (rubbing) + -logy (suffix indicating science, study, theory).
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Links: February 11, 2018
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A study that documents how people with depression use language differently (note the first finding and #16 in Barlow’s list above).
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Some interesting reading, fully available online: Manly P. Hall’s Secret Teachings of All Ages, an “esoteric encyclopedia.” || Pairs with (kind of), a trove of Victorian magazines.
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JC Debroize’s Organic Typography is…unsettling.
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The New York Times explores our possible Post-Text Future…which might be a good thing given that we human paper users are losing “an elemental struggle between the natural and the mechanical” in the form of the ever-present—and possibly eternal—paper jam.
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The Disconnect is the online magazine you can only read offline. I love playful publishing experiments like these!
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How Facebook Is Killing Comedy is really about how Facebook’s omnipresence is crushing independent entertainment of all kinds.
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Thanks, Reader B. for a pointer to a conversation about consciousness, particularly the “Where Are Words?” entry.
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If you appreciate Iain M. Banks “Culture” series, Joseph Heath’s essay “Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks” is worth some time. If you don’t…I can only assume you haven’t read them.
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I don’t want to be a Linear Lungs, so without further ado, the Wikipedia list of the moment: CB slang.
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Today in 1990, Nelson Mandela, African political leader and symbolic leader of the anti-apartheid movement, is released from prison after 27 years. Mandela served much of his time in the notorious Robben Island Prison and refused at least three offers of conditional release in those years before newly elected South African President F. W. de Klerk ordered his release as part of his dismantling of apartheid.
Leo and Laura
“► Leo and Laura traveled the world together, but now in their 90’s it’s become much smaller.”
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