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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.