Our beloved brother, son, friend, and partner Aaron Swartz hanged himself on Friday in his Brooklyn apartment. We are in shock, and have not yet come to terms with his passing.
Aaron’s insatiable curiosity, creativity, and brilliance; his reflexive empathy and capacity for selfless, boundless…
My self-summary
I am a writer and poet,one, bear with me here, of the “major” writers of the late 20th century,though just typing that felt desperate.I received a B.A. in English at Humboldt State University, then went on to attend the esteemed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, thus launching my career.I also like to drink.Hobart 13 contributor, Jimmy Chen!
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"Twitter knows what you tell it, and a tiny bit more. Facebook presents a mile-high view of your online social history, which while unsettling in sheer size and scope, is selective and containable. The kinds of secrets it knows are secrets you’re sharing, even if with just one person. They seem worse because the site reads them back to you endlessly."
— Why Google, Not Facebook, Knows Your Darkest Secrets (via thisistheverge)
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Listening to this in audiobook for the first time. I found an old cassette audiobook (unabridged) with narration by Arthur Addison. I know the new version is getting great reviews, but I really like Addison.
I guess when I’m done here, I’ll have to get the new version. Or move on to Mona Lisa Overdrive. Decisions, decisions.
Losing it at the movies with Film Crit Hulk
The big green guy on the all-caps thing, commenters, the pain of 48fps, and the modern comic book movie. And Pauline Kael puns.
Talk amongst yourselves. I am verklempt.
And don’t miss the “Banner mode” button at the bottom, just in case you need it.
http://www.themarysue.com/twilight-fanfic-book-deal/
Do they all have to be about the same fucking thing? My kingdom for a successful dick of a hero meeting his match in a successful dick of a heroine:
“The Office, which reimagined the Edward Cullen-Bella Swan relationship as a steamy…
Reimagined? It just imagined it. In an office. Which I would call a serious failure of imagination.
Other than that, everything PinkSquishy said X1000.
"Algorithms are inherently fascistic, because they give the comforting illusion of an alterity to human affairs. “You don’t like this music? The algorithms have worked it out” is not so far from “You don’t like this law? It works objectively.” Algorithms have replaced laws of human nature, the vital distinction being that nobody can read them. They describe human meanings but are meaningless."
— Los Angeles Review of Books - Literature Is Not Data: Against Digital Humanities (via thisistheverge)
Get off my lawn, Literature division.
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Architecture photographer explains how he got that New York magazine cover shot
Poynter interviews photographer Iwan Baan on how he captured that stunning New York magazine cover.
Baan made the image Wednesday night after the storm, using the new Canon 1D X with the new 24-70mm lens on full open aperture. The camera was set at 25,000 ISO, with a 1/40th of a second shutter speed. “[It was] the kind of shot which was impossible to take before this camera was there,” Baan said.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md0qm499AP1r3kmkso1_500.jpg)
Architecture photographer explains how he got that New York magazine cover shot
Poynter interviews photographer Iwan Baan on how he captured that stunning New York magazine cover.
Baan made the image Wednesday night after the storm, using the new Canon 1D X with the new 24-70mm lens on full open aperture. The camera was set at 25,000 ISO, with a 1/40th of a second shutter speed.
“[It was] the kind of shot which was impossible to take before this camera was there,” Baan said.
Tumblr was born and raised in New York City. Like many of you, it breaks our hearts to see our neighbors — those in New York, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas — experience such loss and hardship in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
With hundreds of thousands still without power, water, and other…
