Tuesday, May 24, 2011

THE MOTHER AND FATHER OF NECESSITY

After reading Andy Diggle's post about standing desks and checking out the links he provided about the evils of sitting for extended periods of time, I made this makeshift desk for standing and it's working fine. Thank you Nick LaTour for loaning me the typewriter that serves nicely as a podium for my netbook.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Why you are mesmerized by people you've heard bad things about - io9

Why you are mesmerized by people you've heard bad things about - io9

A new discovery about mosquitoes reveals why vampires will never exist - io9

A new discovery about mosquitoes reveals why vampires will never exist - io9

Would you let NASA open a stable wormhole in our solar system? - io9

Would you let NASA open a stable wormhole in our solar system? - io9

Zebrafish reveal all the ingredients needed to regenerate a limb - io9

Zebrafish reveal all the ingredients needed to regenerate a limb - io9

Let's take a field trip to the Daoist underworld - io9

Let's take a field trip to the Daoist underworld - io9

2011 Nebula Winners Announced - io9

2011 Nebula Winners Announced - io9

The secret war between beetles and frogs - io9

The secret war between beetles and frogs - io9

Why DNA might be the future of computing - io9

Why DNA might be the future of computing - io9

10 reasons to bow down before your shark overlords - io9

10 reasons to bow down before your shark overlords - io9

What if Dracula won? The secret inspirations behind "Anno Dracula" - io9

What if Dracula won? The secret inspirations behind "Anno Dracula" - io9

An exclusive preview of Strange Adventures, DC Comics' new scifi anthology - io9

An exclusive preview of Strange Adventures, DC Comics' new scifi anthology - io9

Future of the Underground: What to Read Before Everyone Else Does - io9

Future of the Underground: What to Read Before Everyone Else Does - io9

Star Trek's wildest spin-off is starting to show its age - io9

Star Trek's wildest spin-off is starting to show its age - io9

Mummies reveal that ancient irrigation created modern plague - io9

Mummies reveal that ancient irrigation created modern plague - io9

Can we have hierarchy without oppression? - io9

Can we have hierarchy without oppression? - io9

The Suicide Girl comic book! It's a nip-slip dystopia! NSFW! - io9

The Suicide Girl comic book! It's a nip-slip dystopia! NSFW! - io9

Chug some moloko and read this comic book pitch for A Clockwork Orange - io9

Chug some moloko and read this comic book pitch for A Clockwork Orange - io9

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

JACK THE RIPPER NEWS


Scotland Yard fights to keep Jack the Ripper files secret
A woodcut of one of Jack the Ripper's victims.
Scotland Yard is battling to keep 123-year-old files on Jack the Ripper secret.
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"Scotland Yard is fighting an extraordinary legal battle to withhold 123-year-old secret files which experts believe could finally provide the identity of Jack the Ripper.

Four thick ledgers compiled by Special Branch officers have been kept under lock and key since the Whitechapel murders in 1888...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8514000/Scotland-Yard-fights-to-keep-Jack-the-Ripper-files-secret.html

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MYSTERY OF THE MONA LISA

The search for Mona Lisa unearths tomb and staircase

"Archaeologists digging for the remains of a 16th-century woman believed to be the model for Leonardo's Mona Lisa masterpiece have found a crypt and a stairway to a probably second tomb inside a former medieval convent in central Florence.
 


"What we found today confirms the precise corroboration between the historical documents and the preliminary results that emerged from geo-radar soundings," said Stefania Romano, a spokeswoman for the group behind the excavation at the former convent of Saint Orsula. 

The team of historians plan to use geo-radar equipment to locate the skull of Lisa Gherardini Del Giocondo, who died in Florence in 1542 and is believed to have modeled for Leonardo's celebrated portrait, now hanging in the Louvre. 

Once they locate the skull, the team will try and recreate a likeness of what the woman would have looked like, compare her to Leonardo's world-famous portrait and unlock the centuries-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa's identity. 

The historians will compare the DNA with that of two her children buried in Florence's Santissima Annunziata church to prove her identity, although some experts says Leonardo's final portrait may be a composite of other faces. 

The Mona Lisa has exceptionally large hands and some art historians believe the sitter was a man - Gian Giacomo Caprotti, apprentice to and alleged lover of the maestro. Many have wondered if a secret lies behind the model's famously cryptic smile. 

But most modern scholars now agree the Mona Lisa sitter was Del Giocondo, the wife of a rich Florentine silk merchant who according to Leonardo sleuth Giuseppe Pallanti became a nun after her husband's death and died in the convent on July 15, 1542, aged 63...


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Monday, May 16, 2011

DaVinci Wine

DaVinci Wine

CHRISTIE AND LaBUTE


Cannes 2011: Neil LaBute turns his macabre hand to Agatha Christie

American director promises 'a good romp and a cracking yarn' in film version of The Crooked House
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American film director Neil LaBute is set to film The Crooked House by Agatha Christie. Photograph: Teri Pengilley
Charlotte Higgins in Cannes

The Guardian, Sun 15 May 2011 16.18 BST

"Neil LaBute has carved a career from seriously disturbing plays and films – In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things – that plunge deep into the American male psyche and find it to be damaged, selfish and brutal..."
http://m.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/may/15/neil-labute-agatha-christie-cannes-film?cat=film&type=article
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

BUK

so you want to be a writer?

by Charles Bukowski

 

if it doesn't come bursting out of you

in spite of everything,

don't do it.

unless it comes unasked out of your

heart and your mind and your mouth

and your gut,

don't do it.

if you have to sit for hours

staring at your computer screen

or hunched over your

typewriter

searching for words,

don't do it.

if you're doing it for money or

fame,

don't do it.

if you're doing it because you want

women in your bed,

don't do it.

if you have to sit there and

rewrite it again and again,

don't do it.

if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,

don't do it.

if you're trying to write like somebody

else,

forget about it.

 

 

if you have to wait for it to roar out of

you,

then wait patiently.

if it never does roar out of you,

do something else.

 

if you first have to read it to your wife

or your girlfriend or your boyfriend

or your parents or to anybody at all,

you're not ready.

 

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FAULKNER QUOTE

"The only thing worth writing about is the conflict in the human heart." William Faulkner Sent from my iPhone 5

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

EDWARD ALBEE QUOTE

parisreview: Some writers' view of things depends upon the success of the final result. I'd rather stand or fall on my own concepts. - Edward Albee

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

THOMPSON ON THE KENTUCKY DERBY

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved 

By Hunter S. Thompson

I got off the plane around midnight and no one spoke as I crossed the dark runway to the terminal. The air was thick and hot, like wandering into a steam bath. Inside, people hugged each other and shook hands...big grins and a whoop here and there: "By God! You old bastard! Good to see you, boy! Damn good...and I meanit!"

In the air-conditioned lounge I met a man from Houston who said his name was something or other--"but just call me Jimbo"--and he was here to get it on. "I'm ready for anything, by God! Anything at all. Yeah, what are you drinkin?" I ordered a Margarita with ice, but he wouldn't hear of it: "Naw, naw...what the hell kind of drink is that for Kentucky Derby time? What's wrong with you, boy?" He grinned and winked at the bartender. "Goddam, we gotta educate this boy. Get him some good whiskey..."

continues here: http://www.kentuckyderby.info/kentuckyderby-party.php
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Friday, May 6, 2011

ART AND ANTHONY BURGESS

AdviceToWriters: Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. ANTHONY BURGESS #art #writing #amwriting
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