Posts by Jake Pollock
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So how is a biography about fonts, Steve? Or historiography, for that matter?
ETA: especially seeing as 'seismology' is taken by, um, seismologists.
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From the Muttonbirds' Envy of Angels:
listen to that you used to say
can you hear someone drawing plans?
can you hear someone cutting wood?
can you hear someone walking the land?
all the time I wanted to be
somewhere that wasn't so new
where you didn't have to dig yourself out
a place to stayInterpreted by Marian Maguire.
ORThe Doublehappys' Needles and Plastic:
Fat gut in a studded belt
My god I think he thinks he's something elseInterpreted by Mark Braunias.
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The Arcade Fire's new video demonstrates the power of html5.
ETA works best in Chrome, is amazing.
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...and someone will head south,
till this whole thing cools off...$600 million isn't exactly Small Change.
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I'm using Scrivener to draft my dissertation. It's designed for writing long pieces and makes it much easier to move back and forth between sections, because it organises chapters into folders with individual 'scrivenings' for each section. It also allows you to have two documents open and active at once, so you can read off a pdf or whatever while writing, rather than having to switch between documents/applications. It's only good for the first draft though -- second draft is done on Word.
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@Danielle. I LOLed.
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From the Daniel Quinn link:
I learned, for example, that the subjugation and slaughter of the aboriginal peoples of the New World bore an uncanny resemblance to the story of Cain and Abel. Cain the tiller of the soil "watered his fields with the blood" of Abel the herder (a metaphorical way of saying that he killed Abel in order to gain the territory he wanted to farm). This is of course exactly what we did on coming to the new world. All our fields were watered with the blood of hundreds of thousands (perhaps even millions) of hunting-gathering Abels.
This is completely wrong. The vast majority of the population that was destroyed by the European invasion of the Americas were agricultural people. They grew maize, squash, tomatoes, and potatoes. On the back of that they built massive empires that covered all of Central and South America. Or are we meant to believe that the Mayan, Aztec and Incan civilisations were built on the back of hunting and gathering?
Beyond that though, since when are herders hunters and gatherers? They're not. Shepherding and the raising of flocks is a form of agriculture. The story of Cain and Abel can't possibly be the story of the defeat of evil agriculturalists over peaceful non-agriculturalists because both Cain and Abel were agriculturalists.
So I don't think we need to read any more of that nonsense.
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@Lucy I would watch out for the wifi in American hotels though. Most of it is fine, but the one I was in in Chattanooga last weekend used a service that loaded some kind of toolbar onto my browser that acted a lot like adware. Trying to deal with it after an 11 hour drive home was annoying, to say the least.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/ArcadeFireVEVO
There's an Arcade Fire concert directed by Terry Gilliam playing on youtube right now.
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Which leaves open the version that I linked to on Fortune, which says that Google is making a deal that would privilege classes of data, not sources i.e. voice over video.