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Author:  Owl_Farmer [ Tue Nov 29, 2011 4:11 pm ]
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Terry Gilliam, the heir of Fellini and the enemy of God?
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/11/ ... k=lat-pick

Author:  thodoks [ Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:59 am ]
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dkfan9 wrote:
The Black Swan of Cairo: How Suppressing Volatility Makes the World Less Predictable and More Dangerous - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Mark Blyth (Free registration required)
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ ... n-of-cairo

Enjoyed this quite a bit. Also, here's a non-registration-required link:

http://jamesshinn.net/wp-content/upload ... -Cairo.pdf

Author:  Owl_Farmer [ Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:45 pm ]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/educa ... =true&_r=1

Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools

Author:  dkfan9 [ Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:45 am ]
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The Movie Set That Ate Itself

Author:  thodoks [ Tue Jan 03, 2012 7:32 pm ]
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Blowing Up

http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm

Spoiler: show
lol @ Gladwell's "igon value"

Author:  dkfan9 [ Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:00 pm ]
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another cool one from Orion:

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/ ... ticle/6599

Author:  dkfan9 [ Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:55 pm ]
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i'm still meaning to get to the last one you posted, doks. it's not too journalist cliche-y, is it?

Author:  dkfan9 [ Fri Jan 27, 2012 11:01 pm ]
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and also, i wrote this a couple weeks ago and forgot to post it here.

http://thecoolship.com/2012/01/17/snowb ... ic-crisis/

not perfect but i was pretty happy with it. i could have improved the minsky part a bit, i think, and i would've loved to have more space to summarize the DFW seeing the other boat scene, which is the best part of his article and would have been a more convincing illustration of the principle than how i use his piece, but time is a scarce resource. so it goes.

Author:  Owl_Farmer [ Fri May 18, 2012 12:25 pm ]
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On Censorpship - Salman Rushdie
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b ... shdie.html

Author:  dkfan9 [ Sat May 19, 2012 6:44 am ]
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Owl_Farmer wrote:

hmm... i find a lot to disagree with here.

also, i don't think A Clockwork Orange says much, obviously I wasn't invested in the characters, and it really wasn't mentally expanding (like, say, Memento was to my perspective on memory, motives, etc). i just don't get what the fuss is about, what the real importance of the "art" is.

Author:  dkfan9 [ Tue Jun 05, 2012 5:06 am ]
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More viewing than reading:


Author:  Owl_Farmer [ Wed Sep 26, 2012 1:56 am ]
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Julio Cortazar, The Art of Fiction No. 83
Interviewed by Jason Weiss

http://www.theparisreview.org/interview ... o-cortazar

Author:  washing machine [ Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:13 am ]
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Owl_Farmer wrote:
Julio Cortazar, The Art of Fiction No. 83
Interviewed by Jason Weiss

http://www.theparisreview.org/interview ... o-cortazar

Nice, thanks for this.

Author:  Owl_Farmer [ Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:52 am ]
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Have you read Hopscotch, Reid?

Author:  washing machine [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 2:35 am ]
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I have not.

Author:  Owl_Farmer [ Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:46 pm ]
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I haven't read an English translation, but whoever did it had one hell of a task ahead. I have no idea how reading a translation would compare to reading the original. I really don't care to find out, either. It's such an amazing work. I think ST read it and loved it, but I can't help but think that a big part of the experience of reading Hopscotch is going to be lost in--as it is--translation.

Author:  Owl_Farmer [ Wed Oct 10, 2012 3:31 pm ]
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Pete Townshend’s War
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/c ... picks=true

Author:  thodoks [ Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:58 pm ]
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http://www.nowandfutures.com/large/Anti ... leb%29.pdf

Can't wait for this book to be released.

Author:  dkfan9 [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:36 am ]
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thodoks wrote:
http://www.nowandfutures.com/large/Anti-FragilityPrologue%28taleb%29.pdf

Can't wait for this book to be released.

cool

Author:  dkfan9 [ Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:27 am ]
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although, wtf is with this line:

Quote:
We just don’t want to just survive uncertainty, just about make it.

I guess my impression of Taleb: I like his ideas, but he could use some work as a writer.

here's an ironic paragraph:
Quote:
But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that “You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple”. The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.

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