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Musical World
I've posted the dancing in Antwerp station video before, and spread it as far and wide as I can. It remains my favorite youtube video, and it represents the best thing of the internet.
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'Space'
While I was thinking about this application of the architectural terms of negative and positive space, and simultaneously reading JT’s blog about the clutter of the online media and the expectations of what we have to do to create a writing career and maintain it, along with marketing it, I had an abrupt-but-fine appreciation for the connotations ( Read more... ) -
Google Wave, Update
I now have a Wave account. It is awesome.
However, I have no invites. Apparently, you only get invites if you were invited by Google (rather than by friends). I'm certain this will change, and as I said, once it does I will announce it. (To twitter and to LJ.) -
Snapshot
A small boy, perhaps ten or eleven, stood at the edge of the street peering back and forth along the street as if something might jump out and gobble him up. His cheeks were smeared with dirt from days, or weeks of accumulation. He scratched the back of his leg with a shoe that once was quite nice but now falling apart around his feet. They didn't ( Read more... ) -
The world is a fabulous place.
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Textbooks are worthless?
I read this blogpost the other day about how textbooks are a massive ripoff.
He's a marketer, so maybe that makes sense for him. But I still have many of my textbooks, and I still collect ones I like. And I do use them for reference (at the oddest times).
So, LJ world, what do you think? Do you use your textbooks? Are they a massive rip-off?
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