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reading: empiricists among us
"Her eyes shone, she sat straighter, and she said, with great positivity and cheerfulness, "Well we have the data! We have empirical evidence that people can change!""
what's going on
reading: about schwitters
"The Merzbarn was constructed by Schwitters from found materials in a disused straw barn at Little Langdale in the Lake District. Although unfinished at the time of his death in February 1948, the Merzbarn survived intact until the mid-1960s, when Richard Hamilton and others arranged for its careful dismant-ling and safe storage. One large section of the main wall relief was later reinstalled at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle. It is likely that the Merzbarn relief at the Hatton will undergo restora-tion in 1999. The Merzbarn is still considered one of the key works in the development of 20th century sculpture."
littoral
reading: embodiment and disembodiment
"We will show how, in these narratives, (1) action is distributed among a series of actants, including professionals and technology; (2) that dichotomies appear which cannot be reduced to one of body/mind, but are more adequately described in terms of ‘body-in-labour’/’embodied self’, each of them being locally performed through the mediation of medical practices, knowledge and technologies, the definition of these elements and of their relations being specific to each obstetrical configuration; (3) that part of professionals’ activities is devoted to the detailed management of the articulation between the body-in-labour and the embodied self, and to monitoring their joint transformations."
Madeleine Akrich and Bernike Pasveer
reading: how to cheat good
"I would prefer that students don’t cheat. Yes, they really are mostly cheating themselves, so fine. But it also reflects poorly on the community. Rationally or not, what particularly irks me is that it is disrespectful: of me, of their fellow students, of the university, of the institution of learning, and of themselves. And—did I mention—of me? It is particularly irksome when their cheating implies (reminds?) that I am a fool."
Alex Halavais
reading: upgrade
"Upgrading is keeping what you can use and re-using what you cannot discard. Upgrading has less to do with material facts and artifacts, but is most powerfull when it deals with concepts. Upgrading concepts can save them from becoming either empty or obsolete."
max bruinsma
reading: the last island of the savages
"Lost tribes, Kirsch has written, "are destroyed at the moment of their creation." That might explain why explorers have been so eager to create new ones, and why, now that the lost tribes of the earth are used up, we are moved to invent new ones beyond it. If there are no more dark places in this world, there may be, perhaps, dark places still in the universe, where others live, like us and unlike, twins separated at a distant birth to show us what we might have been."
goodheart
reading: dirty old town
"When dawn breaks (it sometimes takes until dawn to find the last guy), I can see all the other mosquitoes pressing up against the window screen outside, drunk with carbon dioxide lust, waiting to take their turn. I torment them with a nice slow puff of Sichuan garlic breath through the screen and watch them go crazy. Then I collapse on the bed, mosquito netting wrapped around my head, and contemplate my sins."
idle words
reading: so you want to pottytrain your toddler
"No one buys Mommy things when she uses the potty."
in the trenches of motherhood
reading: are there lessons to be learned
"One of the most proven negative outcomes of frequent TV viewing is coming to see the world as much more hazardous than it really is. Big-time TV viewers vastly overestimate the chances of, for example, being a victim of a crime or contracting a disease."
healthy children
reading: rabbit's golden rules of the workplace
"Don't waste your time doing jobs that someone else can easily do. This is a great way to stay trapped, frustrated and undervalued. Find the things that no one else can do quite as well as you can and do those things really, really well. If there are parts of your job that any trained monkey can perform, try to get your boss to hire someone else to handle those things while you excel at the stuff they can't hire out. This might take time, but if you never do anything that is a waste of time or can be completed by someone else, you'll naturally shape your career path based on your talents and you'll make yourself irreplaceable."
rabbit blog
reading: links
i want: frog prince pillow
or in fact, all things haba
i want: buildings of disaster
from moss
i want: excuses to knit
all sold out :(
i want: treo sock
i want: solutions [oblique]
for sale here
i want: stamper cup
very nice idea
i want: the original moomin movie
found here
i want: all things katvig
more here.
i want: normadic furniture
found on ebay.
i want: a starfish bath alarm
found here
the secret language of sleep
twelve simple questions to reveal a couple's ideal sleeping position - take the test here.
more katamari
this time made of yarn and magnets. found on etsy - check out the emerging gift economy: pay it forward or the 10 cent sale.
more great ideas...
a diy fractal chandelier made by sean michael ragan or i am an angel chaser
more images here, but check out the whole site it is full of cool things. i first saw the chandelier on boingboing [i think].
my neighbor totoro
a site full of the greatness that is the animations of hayao miyazaki
make your own paper enigma machine
you know, if it is raining and the internet is down, or something. instructions from mike koss.
or go straight for the electronic one:
from bletchley park
the museum of kitschy stitches
a gallery of notorious knits
ok go
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