Source: “Da dove vengono gli scacchi di Lewis (Il Post, 10 settembre 2010)
Category: general
Check out this old Apple Computer ad for the late 1990s. #design #apple #mac
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
What each man does will shape his trial and fortune. For Jupiter is king to all alike; the fates will find their way
Virgil, The Aeneid (via The Fates Will Find Their Way)
Books, like all art, breed in us desire. In times of crisis and fear and misrepresentation we need desire, or else we shut down and hide out in our houses, succumbing to infotainment and the ease of an available latte, turning off our brains and emotions. Books breed desire.
The lovely Lidia Yuknavitch, in a piece she wrote for The Rumpus titled “The Urgent Matter of Books.” Her memoir is one of our favorite books of the year, so far. (via powells)
Amazing photo of Space Shuttle Endeavour’s final launch…
The Space Shuttle Endeavour’s Final Launch seen from a commercial plane window, captured by Stefanie Gordon.
Stunning.
This is just insanely perfect.
One for the history books.
(Source: http://twitpic.com/4yg6hs)
somethingchanged:
… as well as boring and a waste of time.
Recently, my friend Philip Rothschild asked if I would write a blog post on “the anatomy of a 500-word blog post.” (via michael hyatt)
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it [on Goodreads].
Bertrand Russell (via pulcherrima-est-vitae)
bookoasis: A book and a cup of coffee are two of life’s greatest pleasures. (Photo by meadbh metrustry)
5 Models Of Content Curation
- Aggregation
- Distillation
- Elevation
- Mashup
- Chronology
When it becomes unseasonably warm, I remind myself of days like these…
npr: It’s rare in the “modern” world that we can feel forces greater than ourselves. When we think of grand powers unbound, we call to mind images of nuclear weapons — mushroom clouds rising high on nuclear energies released at our bidding. In this age of petroleum-fueled miracles we seem, most of the time, to have vaulted past natural limitations. Most of the time, our airplanes can lift off even as thunderheads fill the skies. Most of the time, our ships can punch through waves even when they form canyons of storm-driven ocean. Most of the time, the intricate systems we depend upon for commerce, for travel, for food and for energy manage to function. And they do so in spite of churnings of the planet’s own internal systems of atmosphere, hydrosphere and exosphere.
And then, out of the blue, the planet’s hidden powers are revealed. We see the scale of its forces and its energies. There is a particular lesson in that vision for our particular moment in history.
-Posted by wrightbryan3, from Adam Frank’s “A Metropolis Stilled: Lessons From A Storm.”
It is the recognition that well-read is not a destination; there is nowhere to get to, and if you assume there is somewhere to get to, you’d have to live a thousand years to even think about getting there, and by the time you got there, there would be a thousand years to catch up on.
Linda Holmes writing for NPR’s Monkey See blog. Her excellent piece is titled “The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going to Miss Almost Everything.” Read more. (via powells)
I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.
Susan Sontag (via theparisreview)
It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who’d left us behind.
The Fates Will Find Their Way (via pageandoven)
(Source: http://instagr.am/p/C_N0H/)
Communicate slowly. Live / a three-dimensioned life
Wendell Berry, How To Be a Poet
The words are making me wonder about the difference reading poetry aloud makes, three-dimensioned, communicated slowly.
Found here communicate slowly – 37days
(via tellingpoems)
I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.
E. L. Doctorow (via theparisreview)
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