More How to Lie with Maps
I just finished Mark Monmonier’s book. It’s great. There’s one passage that strikes to the core of my being with a glowing, cartographic, nerdly joy. He writes: …map publishers have been known to...
View ArticleDang kids!
Quoted in Avatars of the Word by James O’Donnell: They have chopped up the text into so many small parts, an brought forth so many concordant passages to suit their own purposes that to some degree...
View ArticleNot the Wild Wild West
One of my students (thanks, Robert!) sent me this clip of someone–purportedly Harlan Ellison–talking about the Internet. I don’t distrust my student, but you never know; the Internet is, after all, the...
View ArticleFreud and Internet spirits
I’m working on a random web generator that uses google and a bunch of filters to grab stuff. As part of the test phase, I’m using lots of different test phrases to see how it reacts to a variety of...
View ArticleRandom: The Internet is Funny
I leave for PCA tomorrow, to present my flash project, which I’m calling internet art. Try it out and enjoy: Random: the Internet is Funny Now a working link!
View ArticleInterMission
We got this movie accidentally — Jenny had seen it already so I was under pressure to get it watched quick. I liked the multiple narratives interweaving around a number of nodes, but the end didn’t...
View ArticleFrom A to
cbd writes: I’m happy to say that at long last, From A to <A>: Keywords of Markup is under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Jeff and I hope to see it in print in Spring 2010. As...
View ArticleSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow; narrated by the author GoodReads says I’ve been reading Someone Comes to Town since 3 April. That’s when I discovered and downloaded the...
View ArticleOn Oil Spills and Brain Hemmorrhages
Something burst deep below and suddenly there’s a leak, a major leak, a catastrophe. Doctors are working to locate the source of the blood; the Navy’s working to stop the source of the oil....
View ArticleTry a little … wait for it
Mason posted this video for the fourth of July: I haven’t got any idea what this song is about. I couldn’t keep my mind on the lyrics. Instead, I mentally tripped, over and over and OVER, on the Otis...
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