maple creek farm’s 2010 maple tour
this is the guard donkey for the sheep… seriously…
Month: March 2010
paperback dreams film trailer
(Source: http://paperbackdreams.com/)
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
Indira Gandhi (via iindia) (via radarchive) (via robot-heart) (via edatrix)
daedal
adjective • /dēdˈl/ • artistic; ingenious and complex in design or function.
Asheville Tumblrs & Tweeps are cordially invited to a poetry reading Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:00pm at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, downtown Asheville, NC.
Samara Scheckler is one of the featured poets for Monday’s reading and plans to read selections from a new chapbook A Body Turning.
Other poets include Barbie Angell, Donna Ensor, and myself with host and international poet Pasckie Pascua.
Dear Tumblr followers,
You are invited to a poetry reading featuring local poets: Barbie Angell, Donna Ensor, Samara Scheckler and Matthew Mulder, and hosted by Pasckie Pascua.
8 MARCH, Monday, 7pm-8pm.
Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, downtown Asheville, NC.
(828) 254-6734
About 10% of Cambridge University Press’s sales of academic and professional titles are generated by books printed on demand…. Before POD, if sales of one of the publisher’s books dropped below 50 copies a year, it was taken out of print. Now a publisher can keep titles available forever.
The Economist (link)
Two regional titles in Germany, Berliner Morgenpost and Hamburger Abendblatt, have put up pay walls around premium content. But two big national titles, Bild and Die Welt (owned by publishing company Axel Springer), are keeping their websites free while selling iPhone-app subscriptions for $2 to $5 a month. And when The Guardian, Britain’s most-visited newspaper website, launched a $3.73 iPhone app — despite outspoken rejection of the pay-wall model — it sold 70,000 in the first month.
Ad Age (link)
Le Monde in France, for example, has been charging for premium content since 2002, and has racked up 100,000 subscribers steadily paying $8 a month — even though its traditional newspaper circulation is barely more than 300,000.
Ad Age (link)
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis (via libraryland)
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Daniel J. Boorstin (via bookshelves)
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero (via bookshelves)
Man muss das Unmögliche versuchen, um das Mögliche zu erreichen.
(You have to try the impossible to reach possible things.)
Hermann Hesse (via germanheit)
alterity
noun • /ælˈtɛrɪtɪ/ • the state of being different
Quote: Measuring creativity
When musicians improvise, their brains turn inhibitions down and creativity up. Scientists set out to measure exactly what is going on in the heads of musicians, using jazz as the constant:
[T]hey go into what we call a “dissociated frontal activity state.” There’s this notion that someone like Coltrane is “in the zone,” he’s far away from the concerns of everyday life. And he is in some other place where all of these novel ideas are flowing out of him.
How does he do it?
The brain really alters itself into this creative mindframe where its purpose at that moment is to generate novelty and to decrease inhibition.
Consider that for a moment: improv decreases inhibition and increases novelty! As I mentioned recently, people are already improvising. With the emergence and adoption of a new set of tools and services, the line between creator and consumer has narrowed and, in many places, blurred completely. And this is the great opportunity for designers (or creators or any kind): to create room for this sort of free flow of ideas in our design process and in the products and services we create for people. Plan for improvisation. Make room for novelty. (These are not oxymorons.)In the meantime, head over to hear a series on the field of “neuromusic,” research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music.
I remain suspicious, however, of anyone who argues that online social networks, like Facebook, will revolutionize human interactions. Whenever I encounter some utopian celebration of Facebook, I always go back and read some Jane Goodall, or Robert Sapolsky, and remind myself that our social lives haven’t changed that much since we were hairy apes patrolling the African forest. In fact, the most obvious parallel for just about every primate troop remains high school. It’s not that Facebook doesn’t matter – it’s just that our social lives are stubborn things, and tend to revolve around the same constants regardless of the technology.
Jonah Lehrer, “Facebook Friends,” The Frontal Cortex (via somethingchanged)
Ten Unexpected Collective Nouns
- rout • a rout of wolves
- clowder • a clowder of cats
- descension • a descension of woodpeckers
- disworship • a disworship of Scots
- mute • a mute of hounds
- raft • a raft of ducks
- unbrewing • an unbrewing of carvers
- neverthriving • a neverthriving of jugglers
- drunkenship • a drunkenship of cobblers
- shrewdness • a shrewdness of apes
acatalepsy
noun • incomprehensibility of things; the state of being impossible to understand; the skeptic doctrine that knowledge cannot be certain.
From the Greek α̉- (privative) + καταλαμβάνειν (‘to seize’).
Coffeehouse Junkie 