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December 2011

  1. Moving fort moore hill high school
  2. Modern liberalism is a mixture of two elements
  3. Thenearsightedmonkey saigon soul late 60s
  4. The largest house in the east riding of yorkshire
  5. The class is conducted very simply you turn in
  6. What in water did bloom waterlover drawer of
  7. Html5 offers a glimpse of the freedom to define
  8. A few months later i read an interview with the
  9. Hamleys which is londons 251 year old version of
  10. Apple computers is a famous example it was
  11. What english speakers call computer science
  12. Scalasaig colonsay
  13. In a sense every house hill barn and byre on
  14. I believe that we ought so to love and trust god
  15. Weizsackers book the world view of physics is
  16. Ahh firing line if i leave a tv studio these
  17. Pegobry the bitterist harrietsdaughter
  18. Call this a leftover 2012 prediction like a
  19. While researchers have known for decades that the
  20. Truth in drama is forever elusive you never quite
  21. I happen to think copyright does induce creation
  22. Proponents of ever stronger and longer copyrights
  23. Its a safe bet that in the history of state
  24. For students who are not talented with words and
  25. In madrid a freeway turned into a park
  26. Because of pietys penchant for taking itself too
  27. I called it!
  28. Truly wondrous is the whole chronicle of the
  29. British library
  30. For some years now it has been a christmas eve
  31. I pray good beef and i pray good beer this holy 2
  32. The story told by the book epicureanism
  33. Dilapidated lego house via someone on twitter i
  34. How to draw a dragon update but according to
  35. Xkcd 4
  36. The first radio telescope in the world was built a
  37. John jeremiah sullivan seems to have in
  38. Via garethaveyard a lego model of a large hadron
  39. The weird accidental material conditions of the
  40. There are intimations of the abyss wars and
  41. In our strange cultural moment it is necessary to
  42. Writers of all kinds from the nakedly commercial
  43. Welcome to the world micheleherold
  44. Should driver less cars become a commonplace way
  45. Volunteers in white lab coats surgical gloves and
  46. People just get things wrong they read them
  47. Lucia etxebarria has every right to feel furious
  48. We invite you to celebrate new years eve 2012 at
  49. When i was young i thought cops were cool they
  50. Its true that germans and greeks work very
  51. what one thing
  52. Mark Bernstein: Christianity and The Future Of The Book
  53. My real criticism of the lion the witch and the
  54. some things I published this year
  55. Let me start my own speculations about
  56. Christopher hitchens by common consent the
  57. Fear of apple is about losing control over the
  58. Preciseandtowering fold out maps liber
  59. The orthodox view among online pundits has been
  60. What would ethical browsing or ethical social
  61. https://blog.ayjay.org/22560/
  62. But embracing this mystery comes at a price if
  63. I used to play chess expecting to win but this
  64. From my interactions with dick i know that many
  65. The next medium whatever it isit may be the
  66. Mcdonalds had by now according to their sign
  67. The meaning of marriage begins in the giving of
  68. Garry wills in a rather passionate review of all
  69. Saint peter next man defiant christopher
  70. In a number of interviews during the course of his
  71. Lorna said to me you know riddley theres some
  72. Captain najork said aunt fidget wonkham strong
  73. Mark Jarman, “Psalm: First Forgive the Silence”
  74. Heres a thing i will say now without hesitation
  75. By the time milton reaches book vii he has come to
  76. Pour la skieuse lindsay vonn le tebowing prend
  77. But while the web and related telecommunications
  78. Amazons dec 10 price check promotion
  79. With more and more work using nanotechnology
  80. This years big news stories in lego
  81. Just a reminder that things are always happening
  82. What i want to suggest is that any process of
  83. Apple would have never shipped a device like the
  84. Hospitals and doctors offices hoping to curb
  85. Mwfrost david ryans boat building shed looks
  86. The gospel came to the greeks and the greeks
  87. It is comforting to believe that we through our
  88. Its so damn interesting though to be doing this
  89. For every invention we make from mobile phones to
  90. One of the biggest complaints about tablets is
  91. The most remarkable attribute krugman has brought
  92. As i see it the problem with amazon stems from
  93. Now that torontos penguin couple buddy and
  94. Thingsmagazine the natural history of many
  95. We also hugely underestimate the role of chance in
  96. I think the worst consequences of the literary
  97. Defaulting even in so called non recourse states
  98. Since 1992 as the technological miracles and
  99. At a time when there were no drivers licenses
  100. Starbucks is about to unveil a new store in
  101. For the near future though it seems like the
  102. Think of the 18thcentury artist piranesi for
  103. The programmers of the commercial web have always
  104. What im kind of hoping is that this is just kind
  105. Thingsmagazine book art by su blackwell
  106. You left the cocoon of princeton when you were 16
  107. We love meryl streeps work callista gingrich
  108. The sense of festivity which corresponds to pity 2
  109. To miltons satan belongs the journeys the
  110. Ive spent the last couple of weeks living in a
  111. We are in a sense living through a cultural war
  112. Writers block or maybe more accurately a
  113. Comedy is not only possible within a christian
  114. Another theme of kahnemans book proclaimed in
  115. But the problem according to those campaigning
  116. Theres now an app store for the mac to match that
  117. I really enjoyed doing this interview with sarah
  118. Modernist ambiguity or realist emotional
  119. One of the two republican senators to vote for the
  120. why I returned my Kindle Fire

November 2011

  1. Legislation is helpless against the wild prayer of
  2. Penn state lost a university president a
  3. The enigmatic voynich manuscript now online
  4. At bottom he says the germans were blind to the
  5. What is notable about these would be writers is
  6. Nevertheless les dorr a spokesman for the
  7. Hollywood uses copyright law to shut down pirate
  8. kids on a plane
  9. While i think one has to be careful about giving
  10. Kahneman never grapples philosophically with the
  11. This last example suggests why the jfk cult
  12. We shall see where this goes but in the meantime
  13. It was said of socrates that he brought
  14. As a writer of science fiction a label he tried
  15. This song does my soul good the great martin
  16. Bodhidharmas alleged interview with the emperor
  17. It is likely that one day we will know much more
  18. Today however a new breed of young intellectual
  19. Now the pathos involved in the triumph of the
  20. If we think of the three levels of human
  21. At the moment of their earliest adulthood gen
  22. Why watch heineken commercials when you can see
  23. CERN Gets Closer to Proving It Broke the Light Speed Barrier
  24. Saturnine storms
  25. Remember too that the battle for full equality
  26. So to celebrate the bible of 1611 is not to
  27. The college sports myth machine definitely needs a
  28. When we say that we love a writers work we are
  29. This is what happened with assassin of secrets or
  30. At about 1130 am yesterday a police officer
  31. I firmly believe that one of the pressing unsolved
  32. So does neuroscience mean the death of free will
  33. Note that there is a group of people with a vested
  34. High school and college students may be digital
  35. Images from the art of pixar
  36. Erik brynjolfsson and his co author andrew
  37. Indeed bezos doesnt consider the fire a mere
  38. Last week some mediocre california mayoress
  39. Nashville might seem like an archetype of the
  40. I fixed college sports. You’re welcome.
  41. Hoops on the u s s carl vinson
  42. Lullaby via the atlantic wire
  43. In the 1950s i was an athlete those were the days
  44. When cars entered the fray the fact that their
  45. Before the crisis years of the aids epidemic i had
  46. Ive got a good bit of student loan debt myself
  47. The dirty dozen brass band what a friend we have
  48. Theatlantic canisfamiliaris the evolution of
  49. At least one sports columnist has made the point
  50. To me claiming that pictures under glass is the
  51. Rowan wouldnt be the only writer in recent
  52. The funny thing is no ones really hiding the
  53. O captain, my captain
  54. Although google seems determined to keep adding
  55. I may as well admit that i havent read all of
  56. The fiberoptic cables running through the streets
  57. We enjoy caricatures of our friends because we do
  58. Thingsmagazine soviet constructivist models
  59. I am intrigued that so many of the high profile
  60. Theyre building babbages analytical engine
  61. Terremarks building in miami is the physical
  62. Strangely enough another misrepresentation made
  63. A random saul bass thing since everybodys
  64. Ecce homo by jacob epstein in the ruins of
  65. Eulers bridge problem
  66. This time dr pelzer took one of those plastic
  67. Most students cant rely on a combination of
  68. Specifically pan wanted to know how skillful
  69. Paradoxically then great genial power one
  70. Sometimes we do find the words to express an idea
  71. Liking art that is misogynist racist sexist or
  72. Google is known for making decisions informed by
  73. When we actually start to look at the
  74. The kylescu bridge talk about the beauty of
  75. In the year of our lord 2001 iain sinclair walked
  76. If you then factor in cops who are not necessarily
  77. Music was one of the first businesses to get hit
  78. Go to send for have you say that have you
  79. Clay johnson author of the soon to be released
  80. Manners also helped create the souths famous
  81. Contrary to popular thought everyone is not a
  82. Consider patients with anterograde amnesia who
  83. Its harder to imagine the past that went away 2
  84. After six months my editor finally wrote me not

October 2011

  1. There is no evidence that shakespeare was
  2. The loss of a left worth engaging hurts the
  3. Twitter is all about slang and abbreviations but
  4. Averia the average typeface
  5. In wittgensteinian fashion i shouldnt advance
  6. Son of dracula
  7. These fears however seem to have been largely
  8. Since im the old fashioned sort of person who
  9. Tastefullyoffensive shakesbear
  10. That bright ideas far from guaranteeing against
  11. Now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed
  12. a likely story
  13. Amazon is investing and hiring while many other
  14. Wary meyers floating type
  15. Wary meyers the basement stacks
  16. Sf has changed over the span of time i am talking
  17. Santa fe complexity theorist geoffrey west has
  18. The locus of the infantilist aesthetic seemed to
  19. Ras prince monolulu was born this day in 1881
  20. Why is mass online collaboration useful in solving
  21. Over the past several years our quest to extract
  22. I also told her i thought it was a gift to be
  23. Were not the only church called mars hill and
  24. I remember sitting in his back yard in his garden
  25. If you really want complete freedom of choice
  26. Bang olufsen stuff is cool in its
  27. But the genuinely impressive moments in a journey
  28. When you have eliminated the impossible as
  29. Making his own choice of the best time to have
  30. Science fiction ikea manuals
  31. We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make
  32. For bohr physics was not about finding out what
  33. Physics at the moment is again very muddled in
  34. Nor can oxfordians provide any explanation for the
  35. For the time present in case i should be
  36. There is enormous cross cultural variation in the
  37. Besides no argument could ever possibly sway the
  38. Mr gumpys outing is one of my favorite books
  39. So the love of god teaches us to see it teaches
  40. All i can say for sure is that in all my days i
  41. https://blog.ayjay.org/22749/
  42. You can divide all soccer players maybe all
  43. Dubai fog
  44. The question that haunts every dickens biography
  45. Mwfrost shortcuts
  46. Oh minos or rhadamanthus or persephone or by
  47. questions to ask your local anti-Stratfordian
  48. Newyorker james caseberes photographs of
  49. The rejection of science seems to be part of a
  50. The poster has a genealogy and its instructive
  51. The most troubling thing about anonymous is not
  52. So we arent any closer to unification than we
  53. I love infographics like this as much as the next
  54. Writers are defined in large measure by what
  55. All this proved a bit too much for joel berg
  56. Why such narratives are in demand by the general
  57. Thingsmagazine the mariner on the deck of the
  58. For him that stealeth or borroweth and returneth
  59. One of the things i noticed in the obits and
  60. Im endlessly fascinated by watching children play
  61. Many worthy thinkers fear that the life of the
  62. great expectations
  63. I am buying this book just for the cover
  64. There was a divide between the grad student crowd
  65. The problem is always that at the end of the day
  66. Naturalangrybm
  67. Something is missing from alan hollinghursts the
  68. Sweatervestboy i cant imagine this was the
  69. The aforementioned harold davidson in the lions
  70. One of the other things that a producer can do is
  71. The protestations of harold davidson the
  72. We knew instantly that smells like teen spirit
  73. Fact 1 enthusiasm for football has never been
  74. A group that divides the world between the pure 99
  75. I havent met a single person who uses social
  76. Most of our political leaders are not engineers or
  77. The average height of native born american males
  78. Aside from a yearly ceremonial peek inside its
  79. Ive always felt with the iliad a real
  80. I deeply deplore the equation of popular writing
  81. Eden ahbez in the 1940s
  82. The rev fred shuttlesworth and his bombed out
  83. Using an operating system of unadorned bodily
  84. Neal stephensons new novel begins with a family
  85. Your time is limited so dont waste it living
  86. If stallman had to make a statement emphasizing
  87. Steve jobs the pioneer of the computer as a jail
  88. While pinker makes a great show of relying on
  89. In one sense x ray expands a feature that has
  90. Steve Jobs
  91. The only really effective apologia for
  92. Perhaps you were expecting a purely historical
  93. The idea that a doctorate in history prepares one
  94. Amazon has targeted a certain type of consumer
  95. More than just an engrossing yarn mr glennys
  96. As twitters message traffic has grown
  97. Portraitoftheartistasayoungman harold n fisks
  98. In sum the nyt screwed up lindstrom appears to
  99. I dont think this has the effect that facebook
  100. Nobody is against empathy nonetheless its
  101. https://blog.ayjay.org/22811/

September 2011

  1. One person whose work on these matters has
  2. Bruegel suggests a chart of emotions as intricate
  3. The act of writing allows me to feel truly alive
  4. Adiaphora: As a Theologian One Can Never Be Great
  5. A new study in the journal science examined the
  6. Most professors are not going to go out of their
  7. Hilobrow is great
  8. The split browser notion is that amazon will use
  9. Why is e mail volume getting ever worse i believe
  10. Among the many astonishing claims that barack
  11. That future which only yesterday was the future
  12. I am sure we ought to love god in our lives and in
  13. I believe the novel is a moral form we turn to
  14. When im in a mountain goats mood this is for me
  15. Thenearsightedmonkey gospel singer r h
  16. Many younger readers will have trouble believing
  17. It has been a fascinating phenomenon in the
  18. In 1988 shoshana zuboff wrote the prescient book
  19. The longtime goal of facebook and of founder mark
  20. Specimen sheet
  21. Maps from geographicus
  22. Again it seems to me that the increasing focus on
  23. Life
  24. Basically then europe doesnt have the death
  25. Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this
  26. He derek parfit decided to study philosophy he
  27. Why did a figure such as leibniz fail to use his
  28. Everyone but the tea partiers supports green
  29. For proof he points to results from a survey
  30. Among the books he packed for his european journey
  31. In 2001 three young people from moscow arkady
  32. In short blackboard sucks blackboard supporters
  33. David leigh and luke hardings history of
  34. Remembering the advice the mayor of bruchsal had
  35. When i asked randolph to explain just what he
  36. This story got me thinking about covers ive seen
  37. Thenearsightedmonkey you dont need a
  38. Jobs is ahead of his time in other ways too he
  39. Dpstyles tedr laughingsquid the relative
  40. Papercraft devices
  41. I havent experienced anything that dramatic
  42. Theres no pressing need for me to write about
  43. Certainly those determining acts of her life were
  44. Course registration versus niceness success
  45. Language is no barrier to writing a novel
  46. Theres something more to this feral quality than
  47. Every generation gets the fantasy it deserves
  48. Melbourn village college not far from cambridge
  49. It was once thought that paywalls would work only
  50. Is the technology industry finished is
  51. I know michael moore and bill maher think this is
  52. So take a look at your bookshelves do you have
  53. But offering words of apology is not enough
  54. Mosquitoes
  55. Have you ever noticed that while small businesses
  56. Lawrence lindsey who was head of bushs council
  57. Why not have on air real time fact checking during
  58. The moral logic is hard to fathom the ncaa bans
  59. One way to think about losing a tennis match and
  60. Yrm has recently completed telehouse west a
  61. Sometime in the last year i was reading yet
  62. In our time it is broadly true that political
  63. The clever code is the handiwork of narrative
  64. The credible but unconfirmed terrorism plot
  65. I was probably the sixth person to get an ipad
  66. Why does it seem like some languages are spoken
  67. A 7 eleven clerk in san diego was more confused
  68. Most of these biological facts dont matter at
  69. Once again the wheaton college food service has
  70. W. H. Auden, “Fugal-Chorus” (from For the Time Being)
  71. The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these
  72. Kurt gray of the university of maryland and annie
  73. Logically the video revolution and television
  74. One of the strange powers of the logic of debt
  75. Who doesnt love buying online it offers a bigger
  76. I think the reason fiction but not non fiction has
  77. One of the little talked about dynamics of the
  78. In the 1950s a long past gm ceo who had been
  79. In newtons second year at cambridge having
  80. What government a nation can bear depends on the
  81. A friend called a few weeks ago to tell me about a
  82. Theatlantic a jobs plan for the post cubicle
  83. Cest pourtant le grand defi de loccident
  84. A la generation precedente un professeur de
  85. Railroad work demanded a bodily knowledge that
  86. We need to remember that the great imaginative
  87. To many education experts something is not adding
  88. I predict that in 2050 well look back at the
  89. My short answer is learn code my long answer i
  90. Paris as much as i love paris feels to me as
  91. There are three extraordinary paintings at the
  92. Discovering the evolution of words is a constant
  93. The accompanying article by lev grossman says
  94. First you call for an unnamed disciplinary
  95. The quest hero often encounters an old beggar or
  96. W. H. Auden, “Voltaire at Ferney”
  97. Sprave is so into slingshots that in 2009 he
  98. Steigs drawings seem to flow effortlessly from
  99. Im told that the cliche du jour in financial
  100. Another example that is quite astonishing one

August 2011

  1. Mwfrost i know very little about this extremely
  2. Mwfrost via wayne coynes oklahoma compound
  3. To grow up in the south is to be fed a steady diet
  4. In contemporary life many people claim to spend
  5. The savage ritual of the whipping block would
  6. PEG 2.0: Mini-pseudo-théologie de l'”usure” et de l’économie financiarisée
  7. The castle of perseverance perhaps the earliest
  8. Conventional wisdom sets up two distinct
  9. always on
  10. The larger story here is about the surprising
  11. Hey forces of evil heres whats in store for
  12. The New Yorker and Francis Schaeffer – NYTimes.com
  13. Tim cook is not a media guy hes not a humanities
  14. Or maybe we could just throw our garbage in here
  15. Its in state department memos vintage pages of
  16. Chas freeman is a former diplomat who served as
  17. If you feel that catholicism or christianity or
  18. Preston sturges the lady eve is some kind of
  19. What is strangest in the recent waves of young
  20. I was just struck by this in recent discussions
  21. Part of the weakness of current theological
  22. Dylans refusal to be known is not simply a
  23. The act of translating what for me are the
  24. The incarnation the coming of christ in the form
  25. Humanists can be private educators and public
  26. Here 6
  27. Here 7
  28. I turned off comments in the last redesign of
  29. I think were witnessing a fascinating shift in
  30. The theologian t f torrance tells about an
  31. The past is not another country it is another
  32. The rapidly changing practice of personal curation
  33. Edwards begins his book with an anecdote about a
  34. Understanding america
  35. Mwfrost via byrhtferths diagram computus
  36. The bands manager jason contacted me through
  37. Hawaii volcanoes national park
  38. Trying to peer inside a crumpled ball by
  39. Laniers mother before her death in an automobile
  40. If the connection between publishers and writers
  41. It goes like this friedman wants to establish new
  42. America needs heroes it is sometimes said a
  43. Every generation must lose its innocence must see
  44. why Gandalf and Elrond were wrong
  45. The public has a distorted view of science
  46. For my poetry students there is a process i
  47. Qualifications are necessary sometimes
  48. Ill tell you a weird thing about me my mother
  49. The lord of the rings was the perfect fantasy for
  50. Philip guides you like an eager kid at his own
  51. https://blog.ayjay.org/22975/
  52. The moomin canon by contrast has been
  53. It is the novelists innate cowardice that makes
  54. The liberal camp includes many thinkers i admire
  55. As the political philosopher robert p george has
  56. But theres a lot of potential once and if
  57. Decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily
  58. Critics also seem uncomfortable with the fact that
  59. Starting from the idea of historical uniqueness
  60. I suppose what i do in the simplest sense which
  61. The creation of a post imperial america is the
  62. Modernist studies is a vibrant and exciting area
  63. Via kill shakespeare so you decide to put
  64. Via calculating the size of apples spaceship hq
  65. Landscapelifescape mountain ash trees alfred
  66. I just finished reading logicomix and while i
  67. Article xxxi whether i stole lauries apple juice
  68. endings and renewals
  69. The land of the dawn lit mountains arunachal
  70. A lot of what gabler describes as big ideas turn
  71. In short this book is among the worst entries in
  72. Mwfrost philip rieff first in maybe a series
  73. But the emerging prevalenceanecdotally at
  74. Its true that the boundaries of the collective
  75. a public-service announcement
  76. The search and rescue dogs of 911 god bless
  77. Social networking sites are the primary form of
  78. Only when the humanities can earn their own keep
  79. Those southern boys are all boys and they are all
  80. Sometimes one feels that the center might be a
  81. Throughout much of history at the heart of every

July 2011

  1. Iain Sinclair’s struggles with the city of London | Books | The Guardian
  2. reading as therapy by timothy aubry – bookforum.com / daily review
  3. Augustine di Noia on mystery

June 2011

  1. The new world a misunderstood masterpiece film
  2. Debating the Value of College in America : The New Yorker
  3. Enthusiasms

May 2011

  1. Are these the 100 places that made Britain? | Culture | The Guardian
  2. Postmodern Pythagoras « Public Discourse
  3. Critical Mass » Blog Archive » What Umberto Eco hasn’t read
  4. I Read Where I Am
  5. The End of Sexual Identity – TGC Reviews
  6. This Easter, try to avoid the Gospel of Grayling | Brendan O’Neill | spiked
  7. A life in writing: China Miéville | Books | The Guardian
  8. A Generalist’s Work, Day 3

March 2011

  1. Mcgonigal is not advocating any kind of real
  2. The lenten season is devoted especially to what
  3. Win the future is about re imagining human life
  4. To save your world you asked this man to die
  5. The books that i remember best are the ones i
  6. I must say here that sociologists are the
  7. When offered the chance to get out to choose our
  8. So these apps need to work in a fundamentally
  9. And this is why i think the new atheists are a
  10. This isnt a particularly great insight i
  11. And now the learner has he no lot or part in this
  12. As instructors naturally become aware of their
  13. In everyday thought and speech we have reasons
  14. As to a practical freedom to connect policy
  15. Moby the reason i started making music really
  16. Sometimes i get the feeling that collini is
  17. I did however glean some of arielys bigger
  18. I chose not to write about the nitty gritty of the
  19. Today however it isnt culture per se that is a
  20. But an emerging body of research is suggesting
  21. There is an analogy here with the christian
  22. Thank god jamie merely opened a school and didnt
  23. For decades chinatown fair welcomed everyone
  24. If the technologies i use and value take steps to
  25. Conservatives should make their case against npr
  26. After all if we are going to grant that the
  27. Modern measurements of americans historical and
  28. Anonymity has long been hailed as one of the
  29. Where is psychiatry headed what the discipline
  30. Almighty and everlasting god who hatest nothing
  31. John dominis jacques damboise playing with his
  32. R b kitaj if not not 197575 oil on canvas
  33. In college i was lucky enough to take an english
  34. I spoke to an academic at a us university who
  35. Harpercollins has informed libraries that
  36. Mcenroe believes that floridas live in tennis
  37. The great power of modern digital filters lies in
  38. The organizers called everyone together to read
  39. Mwfrost mark linkous died by his own hand a
  40. To create the literature of fact we have to work
  41. Randy mora el futuro de la educacion via abler
  42. When i started to use kodachrome its stability
  43. Whatever the reason for the gender imbalance
  44. My neighbor shrugged the college application
  45. Left handedness has sometimes been treated as
  46. But lets go back to the math of the kindle
  47. Why assign any special value to an hour spent
  48. Allan bloom described his students as unmoved by
  49. His obsession with citiesand with
  50. I met daniel ellsberg for the first time recently
  51. Books are frozen voices in the same way that
  52. Kellys long engagement with technology furnishes
  53. Today the role of the telegraph in the 1917
  54. I dont think journalism school is a place to
  55. To say that rappers possess originality and that
  56. Novelists have an endless drive to aestheticize
  57. Take a look for example at the civil war
  58. The first people to perform useful studies
  59. The aphrodite of bactria
  60. Sony has a platform for e books amazon has a
  61. Heyman uses the phenomenon of addiction to make a
  62. According to portland brewing consultant hans
  63. Nothing fans a stammers flames like the fear that
  64. Im less pleased with the word sacrament a legal

February 2011

  1. Now that the social layer has been built some
  2. Landscapelifescape japanese acer palmatum
  3. Thingsorganizedneatly julien valee
  4. The republic of letters is in thrall to an
  5. The internet kill switch debate is not about the
  6. Once you enter the zone the quiet is a shock it
  7. It may be perhaps a question whether st paul did
  8. Bono you see at the center of all religions is
  9. This fear of being misapprehended may in fact have
  10. What google knows and many parents dont know is
  11. It is the connection between memory and
  12. If the culture of the future has more people
  13. Slowing down ones writing as well as ones
  14. The problem with the internet however is that it
  15. The public has a distorted view of science 2
  16. The times finds a small group of people who it
  17. When did we become so enamoured of unpleasantness
  18. Via boingboing
  19. Wesleyhill book rest
  20. Only after the online movement had gained an
  21. You could say the face of the deep was found or
  22. But just how many english idioms come from the
  23. Scrapping the king james version in the
  24. The wallace archive at the harry ransom center
  25. In memoriam
  26. Are attention spans deteriorating forty years
  27. I would add a few more points about the difference
  28. I dont subscribe to the google is making us
  29. But i come here and follow the christian monastic
  30. If it was impossible to replace politics with
  31. What these errors add up to is that watson really
  32. One might argue that literacy is unalloyedly a
  33. I feel like shrinking now i am so embarrassed for
  34. Conventions of politeness arent based purely or
  35. Perhaps the most important thing to be said about
  36. Nostos
  37. transfer of attention
  38. The New Atlantis (2)
  39. Fabulous chalk lettering by dana tanamachi
  40. Adiaphora: Our Refusal to be Spoken To
  41. Via socks studiocom
  42. In a new book virtually you the dangerous
  43. At the core of science fiction is the notion of
  44. Via wwwchicagotribunecom
  45. Via wwwchicagotribunecom 2
  46. Nobody has said it better than the art historian
  47. teaching e-books
  48. from an interview with Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines
  49. Google is not evil but neither is it morally
  50. Back in dial up days when google launched it was
  51. Backlit screens are something weve grown very

January 2011

  1. Its a big puzzle said russell d gray head of
  2. river maps
  3. Iconoclassic daydreaming by hollie chastain
  4. not quite “times of war,” but still…
  5. Landscapelifescape phander ghizar pakistan
  6. Particularize
  7. The harrowing of hell one of the great
  8. From the tomb of agilbert bishop of wessex at
  9. Egypt like many arab societies has a wealthy and
  10. I wish i could be more enthusiastic about the
  11. Such wistful desire to evade responsibility
  12. Who alive today will still be famous in 500
  13. Unfortunately however traditions that are not
  14. The great thing about art is that its there
  15. We are unique as a species in our ability to point
  16. The big difference facebook and especially
  17. Late last year there was a confluence of critical
  18. None of these observations is intended to condemn
  19. Eagleton suggested three ways we engage with the
  20. Too many of the elderly do not have the family or
  21. The Whale and the Reactor (final installment)
  22. Aaron Belz, “You Can’t Pick Your Friend’s Nose”
  23. Its hard to imagine a revolution in understanding
  24. Virus writers seemed at least at first to be in
  25. When levi strauss at last reached the nambikwara
  26. The human habit of overestimating other peoples
  27. As editor in chief of the european journal of
  28. The Whale and the Reactor (7)
  29. Strikingly liberal education is not only 2
  30. After all the radical transparency of mark
  31. The devil has his grip on the business of the nfl
  32. books owned and leased
  33. The 2010 election seemed to be about voters
  34. The best research has failed to show that people
  35. Francesca woodman
  36. Did montaigne intuitively know that by inviting
  37. Of course technology doesnt need to make us
  38. The reason robots are such a slippery slope
  39. The guardians of the liberal arts have made
  40. Every time we postpone some necessary
  41. Landscapelifescape yorkshire england
  42. However wrongheaded you believe your ideological
  43. Preciseandtowering graphic how big exactly
  44. If photography was once for special occasions
  45. Students who study by themselves for more hours
  46. The truth is that as remarkable as steve jobs has
  47. Practicing a piece of music for four hours
  48. To appreciate the importance of a pre modern blog
  49. It soon became clear however that despite his
  50. The results of the new paper suggest young people
  51. In kansas city going to a white barbecue joint is
  52. writing in the dust: Jaron Lanier’s advice for remaining a person on the internet
  53. There are at least two problems with calling
  54. Apps shatter the very idea of aesthetic coherence
  55. Jared loughners despair that everything is unreal
  56. The main barrier is the scientism that pervades
  57. Im not exactly a slow writerwhen im really
  58. Atargatis the syrian goddess was a demanding
  59. Im always being informed that if i find something
  60. By monday the new york times editorial page had
  61. Defenders of traditional authority will object to
  62. Mwfrost the fundamental contradiction in my
  63. If wikipedia pulled a myspace and started
  64. The most significant thing about the feature on
  65. Throughout his book but especially toward the
  66. Myaloysius female detail behind the figure
  67. Apart from being gratified that my book has been
  68. To insist in the face of all this that second life
  69. Most linguistics departments have an
  70. A landmark study published in 2003 in
  71. How do you navigate content on the ipad scroll or
  72. I break tablet reading distances into three main
  73. The inhabitants of osh ush drive the enemy out
  74. You can use my name on your board i guess
  75. The substitution of online for bookstore
  76. Back then the basic unit of internet buzz was the
  77. Many people seem to think that if you talk about
  78. Is it ever right to just wind up and let someone
  79. brief iPad reading update
  80. A schoolmasters calling is usually but poor and
  81. The atrocity in tucson on saturday was a
  82. Augustines confessions the very title implies an
  83. Ruined armenian churches more astonishing photos
  84. The Whale and the Reactor (1)
  85. When our politicians and media loudmouths act like
  86. Ive become a big fan of tools like freedom which
  87. In one view both the revelations of wikileaks and
  88. Google was designed to play the role of a passive
  89. The web was surprisingly good at emulating a tv a
  90. Writers and editors as harpers magazines thomas
  91. Starting early in the 20th century tens of
  92. Heres the problem though todays english
  93. Headphones work best for people who need or want
  94. The Tools of Poetry, according to Andrei Codrescu
  95. Landscapelifescape vermont smugglers notch
  96. Im especially looking forward to windoro the
  97. Quotations from politicians have been getting
  98. Plans
  99. If you want to be a new atheist first and
  100. I propose we abandon the internet or at least
  101. The new aston is beautiful chest squeezing
  102. If one censors mark twains use of the word why
  103. saint preserve us . . . from microfilm
  104. Of course the model that zuckerberg is hoping to
  105. Heres whats happening as i see it my students
  106. more comments needed?
  107. A study in the journal of the american medical
  108. In non fiction there are simple improvements to
  109. In 2035 most of humanity will live in favelas
  110. At the q gathering in 2010 urbanologist richard
  111. But our eden communities may have the solution in
  112. It is precisely because ramadan is unsympathetic

2010 312

December 2010

  1. The universal reaction to book lists i wrote a
  2. Now that i have a family of my own we do observe
  3. posts unwritten, end-of-year edition, part 2
  4. From the atlantics kodachrome gallery
  5. Just extend each shot by 10x and youll have a
  6. opting out, revisited
  7. In the late 90s i started an awkwardsome might
  8. A justly famous scene from tarkovskys the mirror
  9. Bruce herman little gidding oil on wood
  10. Research has been done on how the internet affects
  11. does anything change anything?
  12. Books contain the most carefully crafted and
  13. On the wall of a long closed station of the paris
  14. Agnolo bronzino head of a smiling young woman in
  15. I would offer up coolly extravagant to describe
  16. Id guess that most organizations a generation
  17. Via the big picture a homeless child holds a
  18. The best thing about america is its universities
  19. I find that it is much more for most mens good
  20. Handed down wisdom and worked up information
  21. To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set to
  22. Andrew Hudgins, “The Cestello Annunciation”
  23. Botticelli, The Cestello Annunciation
  24. Let no man deceive himself if by vulgarity we
  25. G. K. Chesterton, “Christmas Poem”
  26. How the christmas tree got its lights
  27. To declare gods goodness that hath enabled us to
  28. Unfortunately for the us state department they
  29. Writing a book is like doing a huge jigsaw puzzle
  30. Austinkleon the man with the electronic brain
  31. Landscapelifescape cumbria england a frosty
  32. Imagine that you enter a parlor you come late
  33. While its stated like a given the idea that the
  34. Cow clicker is a facebook game about facebook
  35. Niagara falls minus the falls
  36. There are many people happy people it usually
  37. Andrew Hudgins, “Praying Drunk”
  38. Both newmans attraction to catholicism and his
  39. Without the holy night there is no theology god
  40. metadata and our discontents
  41. Makoto fujimuras four holy gospels
  42. Is this a resort is this a hotel for
  43. Underwater sculptures by jason decaires taylor
  44. Putnam and campbell are quantitative liberal and
  45. Most of the other ancient near eastern cultures
  46. All of the disciplines are increasingly
  47. Every age has its own outlook it is specially
  48. Many of those who embark on a phd are the smartest
  49. The american corporate model looks a little
  50. A human being at rest runs on 90 watts thats how
  51. Now theres a delightful conundrum for modern
  52. Austinkleon if you hit this sign you will hit
  53. Austinkleon a year in marginalia by sam
  54. Not surprisingly patients who escaped depression
  55. London review one of the most striking exhibits
  56. A few weeks ago at a conference i listened to a
  57. Rory stewart now i was walking downstream in
  58. Why do we weed the collection first we dont
  59. Another of the kings chief men approving of his
  60. Mwfrost via io9
  61. This is a deluxe copy of the quintet khamsah of
  62. Via scott mccloud
  63. Giacometti in his studio via paris review
  64. information considered and reconsidered
  65. The fourth amendments increasing irrelevance
  66. Ive been emphasizing the bad news but i do think
  67. adventurousness and its enemies, part 3
  68. sociopathy
  69. Litfolksarehip professor roys research
  70. Gradually the humanities are being invaded and
  71. The landscape has changed in enormous ways most
  72. The brief history of the internet is dominated by
  73. I admire the magnificent plotting of annies
  74. Atestu kawah ijen by night the big picture
  75. How do you help your children balance when the
  76. The Pleasures of Reading are coming at you! (also in a good way)
  77. The Age of Anxiety is coming at you! (in a good way)
  78. class blogs
  79. adventurousness and its enemies, part 2
  80. I predict were in a phase in a few years
  81. I dont think such a law should pass i think the
  82. adventurousness and its enemies
  83. Ohio state lists 458 people in its athletic
  84. crabwise
  85. brave new digital world (number 3,782 in a series)
  86. The abstractions of science are too readily
  87. Landscapelifescape olive tree jerusalem
  88. That said there is something reassuring about a
  89. Shteyngart says the first thing that happened when
  90. Blasphemy in the bulgakovian sense means not
  91. It was more useful for the global media twitter
  92. Then miraculously out of the hundreds of nearly
  93. opting out of the monopolies
  94. Advent is only secondarily about the baby jesus
  95. Allow me to illustrate with an example every few
  96. Small wonder the state department is crying blue
  97. It may be cathartic for critics of state power to
  98. Assange is not trying to produce a journalistic
  99. less than singular
  100. Most cheating i truly believe is undertaken as
  101. Daily Lit
  102. A company composed wholly of men of learning
  103. The very notion in america of four years of a

November 2010

  1. novelty, once more
  2. email, we hardly knew ye
  3. When the nme voted him 26th in its annual cool
  4. Ostler has faith in a virtual system which he
  5. Landscapelifescape burrator reservoir
  6. If there is such a thing as world literature it
  7. A scene unlike a description not only has a
  8. In recent years neuroscience has begun to solve
  9. Half a millennium before columbus calamitous 1492
  10. One good outcome of mcgurls analysis would be to
  11. I started riddley walker in straight english but
  12. On no grounds whatever our chastened worldview is
  13. Now more than ever is the time for our statesmen
  14. Copia
  15. material developments
  16. university presses
  17. reader’s report: Jane Smiley
  18. The problem as it appears to me is that we are
  19. Philadelphiahistorians at the university of
  20. Then just last month came the well publicised
  21. busyness continues . . .
  22. I look forward to the day where studying biology
  23. I can be influenced as an artist by all kinds of
  24. Rather than focus on passing laws gushee conveyed
  25. One compelling study used pet imaging to watch
  26. If ive done my job she said in the last class
  27. In the extent and diversity of our dependence on
  28. As for the argument that the humanities dont pay
  29. Conservatives bear a lot of blame for their
  30. I think atheists miss the point i dont grant
  31. Near wilton new hampshire 3
  32. Near wilton new hampshire 1
  33. Near wilton new hampshire 2
  34. Bradley palmer state park
  35. Harold parker state forest 1
  36. Harold parker state forest 2
  37. Harold parker state forest 3
  38. Harold parker state forest 4
  39. Harold parker state forest 5
  40. Harold parker state forest 6
  41. Ive written toward a masters degree in cognitive
  42. brief hiatus
  43. There is no shortage of places in manhattan where
  44. Of all the defenses of online ive read the most
  45. education as a public good
  46. Curiously enough in the midst of all this gloom
  47. Having myself grown up in berkeley where nobel
  48. Yet our system obliges us to elevate to office
  49. It is not reasonable to suppose that such a
  50. making connections
  51. plusses and minuses
  52. Atestu
  53. Preciseandtowering espinosa nova font family
  54. What is remarkable about oscar wildes formalism
  55. Frankfurt kitchen margarete schutte lihotzky
  56. When the churchs theological rejection of sadness
  57. The order read although plaintiffs are entitled
  58. the commodification of intimacy
  59. more changes
  60. In all the mountain ranges of commentary on the
  61. Can it be that we tend to overestimate the
  62. Freakyfauna transition no 13 1928 magazine
  63. What then are we to make of the two books kelly
  64. When interviewed while he was researching this
  65. When professional writers especially ones trained
  66. Professor gleason was a bumbling biologist whom
  67. changes to the System
  68. A study by the centers for disease control and
  69. The minds eye would have been a disappointment
  70. against humanism
  71. And increasingly facebook is performing the
  72. The restoration mind set of the next christians is
  73. Given this tendency it makes sense that we often
  74. I resemble that remark
  75. Gjertrud Schnackenberg, “Archimedes Lullaby”
  76. Ms hartsock 23 diligently typed notes a
  77. the book in the browser
  78. At the time though i felt distant from
  79. Levi strauss thus promised two things first a
  80. visual storytelling
  81. Austinkleon shakespeares hamlet as a diagram
  82. Voting is probably the least effective way to make
  83. open letters and closed ones
  84. Although it seems that facebook can be used by
  85. The single cutest photograph in history
  86. For 25 years the researchers have made detailed
  87. Try to promote the pro life case that we have
  88. ad (non)sense
  89. Philosophy does not contribute to our knowledge of
  90. The dismal performance of the experts inspired mr

October 2010

  1. Landscapelifescape glenorchy new zealand the
  2. The battle for the american mind right now is
  3. It looks said srivastava as if what is
  4. Ideology is one thing but if the tea partiers do
  5. Oldhollywood it was on purpose that i started
  6. The thing is harry potters story is finished
  7. Landscapelifescape dover kansas usa country
  8. cutaway
  9. The moral authority of jon stewart is a baffling
  10. The elegance of many of the engraved plates in
  11. Dracula himself is a fabulous creation not at all
  12. nature as information
  13. If one team is good enough to warrant beating
  14. Most type designers are understandably proud of
  15. The odds of any given venture succeeding are of
  16. The poet jo shapcott used a nice phrase recently
  17. amplified authorship
  18. Much of what i have read on plato reads much as
  19. And my saddened sympathies to colleagues at
  20. The internet currently has two very different
  21. I cant really counter all the claims made about
  22. Some writers though scribble and tap more
  23. Of course franzen wrote the autobiographyjust as
  24. Is liberalism any better off now that juan
  25. A plot if there is to be one must be a secret a
  26. Landscapelifescape hunza gilgit pakistan
  27. Amish country in kellys telling is a version of
  28. the relative value of innovation
  29. These people remind me of wine snobs they can
  30. The narrowing effect of technology on language
  31. oh, for the good old days
  32. The rigid scripting of childhood and adolescence
  33. Which brings me to the clarence thomas rule it
  34. what I would blog about if I had time
  35. Steven Johnson and the connected mind
  36. E readers have yet to dramatically alter the
  37. unpopular highlights
  38. Text is a very flexible and pliable medium you
  39. Things with stories became incredibly
  40. More and more people who are approaching
  41. Cartooning isnt writing and art its poetry and
  42. Instruction leaves a person trained and better
  43. Landscapelifescape trieves french alps le
  44. Landscapelifescape lushan jiangxi china a
  45. A basic feature of the venture capitalists
  46. I hoped of course that i can find the way out
  47. Will an iphone productivity app make you more
  48. In the postideological youtube topia that orwell
  49. This is what i tell students you should be proud
  50. Isnt it surprising when people dont return
  51. Mwfrost cover of the american penman dec 1920
  52. Alexis madrigal on pictorialists
  53. and while I’m being grumpy
  54. Enough! or, Too much!
  55. The spirit of the gospel is eminently that of the
  56. Well i say being an anarchist that i dont
  57. Austinkleon art spiegelman on the woodcuts of
  58. Years ago when i used to drive by car from prague
  59. a brief, random thought
  60. charting Harry
  61. Blogs the best blogs are public diaries of
  62. The first decapitation in spartacus blood and
  63. Writing for an audience is a special and important
  64. The main vector for the execution of zuckerbergs
  65. Sunday morning chillin
  66. Stonecrop
  67. Fall coming
  68. Ive been using google docs for several years to
  69. Solomon burke has died at age 70 from the ap
  70. Early fall flowers
  71. Beyond the pond
  72. Slanting morning sun
  73. Two years ago in rangoon i met a toothpick thin
  74. When it was a crime to pick up a bloodied body on
  75. Beautiful Cray-1 Architecture
  76. Another questioner asked bjorn lomborg why did
  77. From the archives of the foundling hospital in
  78. stock overflow
  79. Poetry in other words is mathematics it is
  80. Soviet era postage stamps
  81. first and last
  82. A decade or two ago students learning about say
  83. Les Murray, “Poetry and Religion”
  84. Cell phones cannot cause cancer because they do
  85. learning Greek
  86. I suppose we could just roll over and accept that
  87. If you want to be innovative you need to put
  88. Playing video games is a revolt against life all
  89. What we have in hipster christianity is a jaded
  90. picture books
  91. I have no phone and no internet connection in my
  92. Procrastination is a basic human impulse but
  93. According to the analysis of procrastination i
  94. But what if religion is not primarily about
  95. So assuming that copyright holders will never be
  96. Yet i continue to love american and canadian
  97. the binding of the vanities
  98. Arboretum west side
  99. Spruce wood
  100. Over the years ive come to adopt a pretty
  101. Peter callesen dead angels
  102. creepy lines (and those who draw them)
  103. Why would a bestselling author capable of
  104. Yesterday the npd group released the results of a
  105. Before i first acquired a kindle exactly one year
  106. One of the premises of this entire debate is that
  107. Zuckerberg faced no such barrier for less than
  108. the saddest thing I have read in some time
  109. resisting print
  110. In fact one of the peculiar ironies of modern
  111. Flood Lite: Apple’s Attention to Detail
  112. Franz xaver messerschmidt
  113. There are of course many other less prominent

September 2010

  1. College costs a lot i teach at bc where a years
  2. This is pretty much what drives me up the wall
  3. Quantification in most professions is being used
  4. discuss
  5. Ramelli’s wheel
  6. Cloud Atlas

2009 2

December 2009

  1. “Anyone who doesn’t read Cortázar is doomed.”

August 2009

  1. https://blog.ayjay.org/24419/

2008 3

August 2008

  1. the Sunday morning prayer of Lancelot Andrewes

March 2008

  1. Richard Wilbur, “Advice to a Prophet”

February 2008

  1. Claudio Rodriguez, “Eugenio de Luelmo”

2007 9

December 2007

  1. W. H. Auden, “At the Manger”
  2. Les Murray, “The Quality of Sprawl”
  3. Rowan Williams’s Advent hope

November 2007

  1. Czeslaw Milosz, “Elegy for Y. Z.”

June 2007

  1. Les Murray on writing a poem

May 2007

  1. prayer as bird-watching

April 2007

  1. Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Song”
  2. Richard Wilbur, “A Christmas Hymn”

March 2007

  1. Trevor-Roper on CSL

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