February 2012
40 posts
NY TIMES: The Sociology of the Hipster →
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A year ago, my colleagues and I started to investigate the contemporary hipster. What was the “hipster,” and what did it mean to be one? It was a puzzle. No one, it seemed, thought of himself as a hipster, and when someone called you a hipster, the term was an insult. Paradoxically, those who used the insult were themselves often said to resemble hipsters — they wore...
John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 →
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By MARGALIT FOX NY Times, Published: February 18, 2012
He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there.
He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, spray and sinew, and the history-making chance to traverse two oceans without steam or sail, proved irresistible.
In 1969, after six...
“If all else is lost, at least our generation will be the most documented in...”
– Yayo (via yimmyayo)
“She knows it’s raining
and my room is warm.
But she is proud
and beautiful...”
– Kenneth Patchen (via yimmyayo)
The Stutterer →
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It’s hard to describe the feeling of stuttering to anyone who has always spoken smoothly. It is not a nervous impulse. It is not, despite appearances, a spastic feeling. Stuttering starts in the voice box and the upper lungs with something like a pressure clench, the sensation of some valves closing against a flow, a trap tripping its release at the wrong moment. (John...
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So This Is Goodbye (Pink Ganter...
As Kindles Take Over What Happens to Margin Notes? →
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Margin notes are finally having a moment in the literary limelight. With the evolution of e-readers and iPads—Kindle sales are said to have topped 8 million in 2010, iPads nearly double that, and Jeff Bezos recently announced that for every 100 paperbacks that now leave Amazon’s warehouses, 115 e-books leave its servers—various members of the literati’s old guard have...
How to Pull Off a Vanishing Act →
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How does one perform a vanishing act these days? In an age of smart phones and GPS — not to mention anonymity-piercing paparazzi and celebrity magazines — is it really still possible to disappear?
Absolutely, said Frank M. Ahearn, the author of the concisely titled primer “How to Disappear.” “Technology is a double-edged sword,” said Mr. Ahearn, a “skip tracing” expert who...
HAPPINESS TAKES (A LITTLE) MAGIC →
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By: Brian Lam The Wirecutter, January 25, 2012
There’s a whole laundry list of disclaimers attached to it, but my pal (and Pulitzer winner) Matt Richtel wrote about a Stanford research report suggesting that spending considerable amounts of time on multimedia/technology can make us unhappy.
In his words: “The answer, in the peer-reviewed study of the online habits of...
January 2012
26 posts
Made Better in Japan →
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Imagine going into an espresso bar, as I did in Tokyo, ordering a single shot, and being told that it’s not on offer. The counter at No. 8 Bear Pond may feature the shiniest, spiffiest, newest La Marzocco, as well as a Rube Goldberg–esque water-filtration system, but the menu, which lists lattes and Americanos, makes no mention of espresso or cappuccino.
“My boss won’t...
