January 2012 – …pickhits…

Bookmarks for January 2nd through January 21st

21 January 2012 / esinclai / 0 Comments

These are my pinboard links for January 2nd through January 21st:

Applidium — Vim – Craziness. Or crazy-cool.
Port Huron Statement at 40 – Article by Hayden et al about the state of the SDS's Port Huron Statement after 40 years. This being the 50th anniversary, look for an update citing occupy, Arab spring, eyc.
Has Microsoft Word affected the way we work? – Over owe of recent research into computer impacts on writing.
ORIGINAL BEATS – YouTube – Short documentary about Herbert Hunke and Gregory Corso.
r/geb – Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid – Reddit organized readthrough of GEB, running ~1 chapter/week from 17 January.

Palpitations

7 January 2012 / esinclai / 0 Comments

Mike alerts in passing that the long awaited first volume in the Pogo reprints series is finally available. My old pulp copies are all sitting on shelves, too delicate for reading. Destroyed, in no small part, by my youthful joy at their stories and ideas.

Now to see if our local vendor has it in stock, vs the discounted local-destroying behemoth from the West..

The Eternal Question

5 January 2012 / esinclai / 1 Comment

How loud is too loud to play London Calling?

Bookmarks for December 27th through January 1st

1 January 2012 / esinclai / 0 Comments

These are my pinboard links for December 27th through January 1st:

Missing Pieces: The Activity Stream Aggregator – Framing of a conceptual model for enterprise activity streams
Muslim Christmas – Having just finished Samarov's "Hack" and thia, there is a definite richness in taxi literature…
prostheticknowledge: “Facebook Is The New Suburbia” by Hugh… – Another artifact in the own your online thinking.
The rise of poetronica – Not really new wxcept cor the electronica / dubatep base. refs the excellent Jamie xx and Gil ScottmHeron release of last year, and a few more names to check out.
The New Inquiry – Publication focused on literature and social politics. Essays and criticism. Think of post-grad-NYRB.