McCain and Wikipedia on Colbert
(via onegoodmove, pointed out by the lovely Mister Husband.)
08.19.08
things that talk
Via Compatriot G, straight to my inbox and apropos of my interest in bots and agency. I’m filing it here so I can find it again.:
"As Descartes pointed out in the Discourse on Method, genuine language must be inventive and apt, capable of an indefinite number of utterances that suit the circumstances in which they are uttered. Hence parrots and all manner of parroting devices, from echo chambers to tape recorders, are disqualified from true speech. Descartes believed that language was distinctively human, a criterion for distinguishing anthropos from automaton" (Lorrraine Daston, Things that Talk 11).
08.18.08
Keillor on Wikipedia
Say whatever you want about Keillor’s famous tone and subject matter, but there’s two things he’s undeniably a master of. One is media distribution across whatever mediums make sense at the time. The other is the less-glamorous but always impressive job of simply getting a lot of work done very consistently for a very long time.
Erin McKean on transforming print dictionaries
08.15.08
oktapodi
Via Scott.
sudden appearances
This purple plastic lawn chair mysteriously appeared on the grass outside my study window. It appears to have done so all by itself; I haven’t seen anyone actually sunbathing in it yet.
08.11.08
I'm fairly sure this one moves by flapping.
08.06.08
NE Lexington
night muck
It was right about a year ago that I started shooting muck, but I think shooting muck at night totally counts as branching out. I’ve been night shooting once before with the Lumix, but this was with the D80 and oh, holy hell. I have so much to learn.
08.05.08
slices of sky
I didn’t realize until recently that I like to make these, or even that I’ve been snapping them since I first started playing around with a camera several years ago. I suppose it’s nice to be consistent, even if you don’t notice.