my clutter is functional, dammit!

I’m surprised to find that I haven’t linked this before: The Social Life of Paper by Malcolm Gladwell

This idea that paper facilitates a highly specialized cognitive and social process is a far cry from the way we have historically thought about the stuff.

(Later: Ah, I did link to the same content before.)

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reality comes in layers

Plato’s TV room

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shame on WorldNetDaily

Bumper Hornberger denounces Ilana Mercer’s innuendo against Sheldon Richman

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to be fair, I haven’t already got one

Weirder every day. Just got a spam offering, as near as I can parse it, a picture of a dog for $19.

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another mathematical toy

The Surface Evolver has been updated. I used the previous version (now four years old) to make this ‘soap film’.

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don’t believe everything you download

Greg Apodaca’s Digital Retouching Portfolio. Some of the examples are startling. (Link from B3ta.)

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beautiful plumage

Public service announcement: I keep reading that “the Norwegian Blue prefers keeping on its back,” which makes a tortured sort of sense; but the word in the script is kipping which means sleeping. Hope this helps.

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