disillusionment of 10 point font
► disillusionment of 10 point font → “Animated on a Smith-Corona Galaxie Deluxe typewriter” (just like one of mine).
from Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
—Vladimir Nabokov
—from Pnin
Links: August 13, 2017
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Before Facebook and Twitter, even before the web, there was sinister… paper. → The 19th Century Moral Panic Over … Paper Technology
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I’m not sure how I feel about oyster vending machines, but the prospect doesn’t make me hungry.
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Wow, almost 30,000 recordings of early 20th century wax cylinders and 78 rpm records at the Internet Archive!
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I shared an article about this story a few issues ago, but this deserves sharing for the headline alone. → Calibri in spotlight as Fontgate could leave Pakistan sans Sharif
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Is the fear of malevolent artificial intelligence rooted in a reasonable fear that it could be as destructive as our own?
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I had no idea there was a lost Sylvia Plath novel. Thanks, Reader B.!
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Greece’s disappearing whistled language. Thanks, Reader V.!
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Not as obvious as a first glance at the headline might make you think… → Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
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Unsurprising, but interesting, particularly those who are playing both sides against each other to their profit and our detriment. → Inside The Partisan Fight For Your News Feed
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Today is International Lefthanders Day (#lefthandersday). Supposedly founded in 1976 by publicist Dean R. Campbell (though I can’t find any documentation for this oft-repeated claim), the official site says today provides “a chance to tell your family and friends how proud you are of being left-handed, and also raise awareness of the everyday issues that lefties face as we live in a world designed for right-handers.” Maybe you’ve wondered, “Why are some people left-handed?” If you’re a left-hander, did you know there’s an Association of Left-Handers? And even non-lefties might enjoy browsing a collection of famous left-handers. Good further reading: Adrian Flatt on “The sinister handed”. Good watching: ► Right.Left.Write., a short film about growing up left-handed.
Richard Feynman on the Beauty of the Flower
“…all kinds of interesting questions which a science knowledge only adds to the excitement and mystery and the awe of a flower. ¶ It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.”
► Richard Feynman on the beauty of the flower. || See also: all flowers are related to a single ancestor and this is what it might have looked like.
The Ulysses Glove Project
sinistral
sinistral /SIN-i-strəl/ adjective. Left-handed. Related to, or located, on the left side of the body. When describing some molluscs, is used to describe a shell that coils clockwise from its apex. In obsolete, but occasionally invoked usage, something unlucky, darkly suspicious or deeply unfavorable. See also: chirality(handedness), of which sinistral is one and dextral the other. From Latin sinistr-, sinister (left).
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