February 2012
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Trailer for The Universal Language, a new documentary tracing the history of Esperanto, the artificial language created in the late 1800s by a Polish eye doctor with the vision of a global tongue.
You can pay and download this documentary here. And remember when we read Arika Okrent’s book, In the Land of Invented Languages? Part of her interview in the...
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“Every book better be fully intimate, it better be all you have. I’m obviously...”
– Nathan Englander on writing fiction. (via nprfreshair)
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“The editing function has been replaced by the filtering function. The former,...”
– If you haven’t yet read the book By Design: Why There Are No Locks On The Bathroom Doors In The Hotel Louis XIV And Other Object Lessons, then consider this the most exuberant recommendation ever. It’s a classic from 1982 (reissued in 2005) by Ralph Caplan, a god among design writers, who mastered...
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“Happiness is the most important metric in personal tech. If it improves lives,...”
– —Brian Lam, The Wirecutter. cf. Informationally, we are becoming lard-asses. In the pageview and ratings driven media economy, too much of the content these days is designed to be just like junk food to quickly boost quantifiable viewership. If you make content that is the intellectual equivalent of...
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