January 2012
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“Cities look to me to be our most characteristic technology. We didn’t really get...”
– William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211 in the Paris Review.
My world seems to be a series of tightly-connected cities, separated by a series of scenery for viewing from trains or planes.
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“The Web is teeming with code because code is text and text is cheap, portable...”
– James Somers: How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code.
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“Whose bright idea was it to dress up the perfectly lovely female cast members of...”
– Hysterical Paroxysm, on a publicity shot of the “women of Downton Abbey” in “modern clothing”. The picture is so horrific I’m going to make you follow the reblog chain if you want to see it (and the less said about the caption in the original post the better).
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On PJ Harvey
Ben Ward:
I remember bemusement when I first heard a live recording of ‘Let England Shake’, complete with “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” refrain; it was not endearing. But when the album arrived, the abrupt, cheery opening melody quickly slides away to expose something more integuing and broody. ‘Let England Shake’ is the most coherent album of the year, and probably of a number of years before...
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“About 35 percent of Finns also use mobile laptop modems and dongles, or modems...”
– Kevin J. O’Brien in the New York Times: Top 1% Of Mobile Users Consume Half Of World’s Bandwidth, and Gap Is Growing (via Chris, who notes there may be a loss of subtle T&Cs; nonetheless, interesting)
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