August 2010
BBC Announces Dirk Gently Television Show →
fenchurch:
“You know, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency? The other thing that Douglas Adams wrote?
The wild nonlinear romp through causality, the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and alien ghosts?
…well, the BBC is making an hour-long special out of it, with possible series to follow, if it does well enough”
Via Mario!
“I used to abhor exclamation points, largely because I am not a perky person. I...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to the Person in Charge of New Punctuation.
“If you can’t draw as well as someone, or use the software as well, or if you do...”
– Frank Chimero (via Instapaper)
“He’s sassy, sarcastic and ironic around his friends: A man who is secretly...”
– Is My Husband GAY? | ChristWire
“Moral laws…execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted at length in William James’ The Varieties of Religious Experience. I happen to agree with Emerson that without exception, even among the sociopathic, moral justice effects internal punishments without regard for worldly circumstance, not for supernatural reasons so much...
“I had to concede that she does know him better than he knows himself, after...”
– The Last Psychiatrist: Love Means Not Letting The Other Person Be Himself (via Instapaper)
“About PHOON ME:
This group is for posting pictures of interesting places where...”
– Flickr: PHOON ME
All you ever wanted to know about phooning!
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Daniel Bogan’s interviewing the Flickr staff with the same questions he uses for The Setup. You can read my entire response here, but my favorite question is “What would be your dream setup?”. Here’s what I said:
We’re at a really fascinating point in hardware development right now, which makes it difficult to answer this question. My knee-jerk answer is that I want the...
