December 2010
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“The Atlantic, the intellectual’s monthly that always seemed more comfortable as...”
– The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web - NYTimes.com
A good story from 2010.
Bamboo can capture carbon fast, says report -... →
Via LarvyProd. Maybe I won’t keep hacking away at the clumps in my backyard then.
“Leonard Cohen’s world tour ended this month. His road manager maintains a...”
– The Millions : Take This Waltz: Leonard Cohen’s Tour Comes to an End by Emily St. Mandel
Notes From The Road is mentioned above by Emily.
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“The concept of a “book” will change under the pressure of iPad-type...”
– Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a ‘book’ -John Naughton in The Observer
How reading The Economist on the iPad has shown John Naughton a light on new publishing trends.
Includes this clever video on YouTube showing how an enterprising author is packaging...
“The genius of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) transformed every form...”
– My hero Alexander Pushkin | Books | The Guardian
A brief homage to Pushkin from Elaine Feinstein at The Guardian, some time ago.
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a pile of stuff (mainly pre-Christmas, I admit) #8
Marshall Kirkpatrick reports at ReadWriteWeb on the killing off of Delicious by Yahoo, thus: “Delicious’ data policy is like setting a museum on fire”. (There will no doubt be updates there on Yahoo’s backpedalling on same.)
Chris Flynn, who invented Torpedo not so long ago, has read over 1000 stories this year whilst editing short fiction for Australian Book Review, and...
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more of the real toy story →
Thanks to eachdayaflower for the initial link to a story on Michael Wolf’s exhibition. His website carries more pictures of the workers.
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Ruth Park: A Celebration →
R.I.P. you brave and passionate soul. I have many things to thank this fine writer for, not least her admission that her affection for her children was ‘tigerish’.
These articles are not dated, and don’t have a link on the library friends main page, which is strange.There are plenty of other fine obituaries around at present, but I think the Hooton article is a great read,...
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“I’d argue the opposite, that given that writers do spend a lot of time on...”
– Writers ‘at greater risk of depression’, survey finds | Books | guardian.co.uk
Poet Gwyneth Lewis begs to differ. I like the “SAS” description.
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time for a pile of stuff #7
The National Library has some early copies of the Australian Women’s Weekly online just in time for Christmas browsing.
Their online magazine also has a fine article reviewing the career of prominent Australian choreographer, Meryl Tankard, with some stunning photographs available in the NLA’s pictures archive. You can also read Kate Jennings’ 2010 Ray Mathew lecture.
I am...
An exceptionally cool list from Andrew Burke at hi... →
Colm Tóibín reads Eugene McCabe's "Music at... →
The art of a great strip…not what you think! →
I am hoping to get in to SLV to get a squiz at the fourth title listed in this post from the Arts blog at the library. Probably in the New Year - Christmas beckons with many tasks.
Any excuse to go to the Heritage reading room will do…
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“An eminent psychologist confided to me: “Whenever any group of really good...”
– A novel idea for psychologists - The Guardian
This is something I’ve heard of before in passing. Freud was apparently quite open about his envy of poets? novelists? can’t quite remember which.
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The Awkward Page - Meanjin, HEAT and a digital... →
a snippet of news…on a mag I love dearly. HEAT, quo vadis?
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droving with Kafka - Pierre Assouline
A fine word, transhumance, meaning grazing in higher pastures and returning to the farm after summer (what the hell do we call that in English again - do the English even do it?).It is from the Latin, humer, for soil. So, changing soils. In Australia we would call it droving. I wonder does it have a technical application in French with respect to translation, or is Assouline simply being poetic...
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something to remember...from Richard Nash
richardnash:
Community is offline + online. Meeting your peers face-to-face is powerful. For me the web drives a desire for f2f experience #followreader
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“Teach in Nonconventional Ways: Creative individuals do not like competitive...”
– The Decline of Creativity in the United States: 5 Questions for Educational Psychologist Kyung Hee Kim | Britannica Blog
This is a damn good blog.
Tom Lubbock: a memoir of living with a brain... →
Lubbock speaks very movingly of the last vestiges of speech and language towards the end of this account, which seems to have been written in stages.
in which E.B. White records the death of his pig.... →
Via Maud.
We have Charlotte’s Web on high rotation here - it is currently my eldest son’s favourite weekend DVD. We are very careful to show respect to all spiders at present as well.
i am going to read more about philosophy via the... →
Scintillating. Read the comments!!! Via Bookforum.
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web →
I agree with Derrick Koo of The Book Bench - this is a very fine way to present information about browser tech.
An edited version of the 2010 Andrew Olle lecture... →
By Alan Rusbridger.
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The Web is (not) dead...if you believe Scientific... →
And you can read Tim Berners-Lee’s spirited defence of it as well.
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