December 2008
23 posts
First things.
“Almost every activity that the individual easily performs now was at some time for him something that required serious mobilization of effort. To walk, to cross a road, to utter a complete sentence, to wear long pants, to tie one’s own shoes, to add a column of figures — all these routines that allow the individual unthinking competent performances were attained through an...
Days I've Been Alive Represented By Dots →
by Ron Lent
“The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic...”
– Bush Data Threatens to Overload Archives
It's the first night of Hanukkah.
And there have been Christmas carolers out on 12th street for, oh, the past hour or so.
Watch605+ Flights Canceled in the NY/NJ Area [NYTimes].
Jon Brion - Postcard
This is the music that...
What My Hair Saw
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
(previously)
The Magnetic Fields - I Wish I Had An Evil Twin
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Types of Libraries in America, pre-1876
Apprentices’ library Asylum library Athenaeum library Bray libraries Church library Circulating library College student society library Commercial circulating library Education library Fraternal organization library Hotel reading room Lyceum library Mercantile library Proprietary library Public library Saloon reading room Social library Society library Subscription library ...
Sunday Morning
Banana Bread with Chocolate and Cinnamon Sugar
Juana Molina - Lamba Corta
Deerhunter - Activation
Today we feel like...
Did you know that there is a secret podcast for Jonathan Goldstein’s WireTap? The newest episode is really good. If you’re not familiar with WireTap, just imagine the love child of This American Life and Curb Your Enthusiam. Plus Canada.
Odetta - Sail Away Ladies
RIP, Odetta.
“Despite serious challenges to social peace in Canada over the century and a half or so of the state’s existence, its political stability has exceeded even that of the United States. No revolution, no civil war, no uncontainable constitutional or ethnic conflict has ever seriously disturbed Canada’s history or threatened resolution by serious violence… Canada is close to...