All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

The reading cure

The idea that literature can make us emotionally and physically stronger goes back to Plato.

[From Books | The reading cure]

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This is actually one of my major insights, luckily i share it with many people. It is pretty simple. Great fiction, great books provide models for being, ways of coping, ways of understanding. They help you understand that yes, you are not the great lonely person confronting your challenges new, but that yes, this problem of yours is more or less the same as everyone else’s problems. Literature opens doors for realizing and empathizing.

Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007) provides one clump of essays exploring the use of digitization, mostly from the vantage of museums but considering cultural heritage to span across libraries, galleries, archives, and archaeology as well. [From Preservation and Access Across the Spectrum]

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this looks like an interesting read. i expect we will see more of this material in the next few months.

a sophisticated network visualization of the 297 most visible & influential websites, the “core US political webosphere”. the sites are divided in 4 categories: Conservative, Independent, Mass Media & Progressive [presidentialwatch08.com (map view) & presidentialwatch08.com (trends view)|thnkx Guilhem] [From information aesthetics]

this is a pretty nifty system.

Ten Japanese were sickened, including a child who fell into a coma, after eating Chinese-made dumplings contaminated with insecticide, police and health officials

[From Chinese dumplings sicken 10 Japanese - Yahoo! News]

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where do they such a huge supply of police and health officials….

[From KIWIS BY BEAT!]

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minus is one of my new favorite web comics.

Australia issues Canadian travel warning

[From TheStar.com | News | Australia issues Canadian travel warning ]

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and to think.. I’m going to be moving there unless i get a job elsewhere … scary stuff.

Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time

[From Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time]

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when i read this list… it had an advertisement for ‘wild hogs 2′ and i thought… while fantasy dystopias are bad… certain real dystopias might e worse.

biella points out that: The Atlantic is now free. [From The Atlantic]

Tanner Lecture Library
Welcome to the Tanner Lecture library. To access individual lectures, click on the author’s last name.

[From The University of Utah]

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yes… lots of solid theory and thoughts here

Dwarves hidden in sports bags target Swedish coaches

[From Dwarves hidden in sports bags target Swedish coaches | The Register ]

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amazing… why didn’t you think of that?