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READIN
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
🦋 The Year in Protest
Today, boston.com's Big Picture runs a gallery of photos of political demonstrations around the world in 2010; by turns inspiring, depressing, confusing, amusing... Thanks for the link, CK!
posted afternoon of Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 ➳ More posts about Pretty Pictures ➳ More posts about Politics
John Holbo's hilarious post on a bit of sloppy reasoning from Žižek inspires a lovely comments thread, including a link to Žižek's essay and one to Daryl Gregory's story Second Person, Present Tense.
Paul Goble of Ukraine's KyivPostreports on the current state of controversy in the Central European former SSR's, over whether to use the Cyrillic or Latin alphabet. Good analysis from Mark Liberman at Language Log.