“I can assure you that the European Commission is not the Antichrist.” — Katharina von Schnurbein
mmm, Oreo cookies … (via 5 little design decisions to admire)
the gods here are most definitely crazy -
New blog post from Collected Miscellany
But you know sometimes I’m a liar … -
New blog post from Collected Miscellany
“This is one of the central paradoxes of our culture—everything is swallowed into oblivion but nothing goes away. On the screen, it’s no longer clear who is in charge of the words, or at what point they cross the line between being a fluid, rearrangeable thing in your mind and being a verifiable statement made in public, on the record, for which you may one day have to answer. Many people are worried, understandably, that everything we do—online and off—is retrievable by the government. But what about everything we think? How much space do we afford ourselves for private thought?” — Thomas Beller
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman -
New blog post from Collected Miscellany
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“Why are we so into science fiction and fantasy? Nineteenth-century German sociologist Max Weber had a useful theory about this: The answer may be that we in the West are “disenchanted.” The world in which we live feels explainable, predictable, and boring. Weber posited that because of modern science, a rise in secularism, an impersonal market economy, and government administered through bureaucracies rather than bonds of loyalty, Western societies perceived the world as knowably rational and systematic, leading to a widespread loss of a sense of wonder and magic. Because reality is composed of processes that can be identified with a powerful-enough microscope or calculated with a fast-enough computer, so Weber’s notion of disenchantment goes, there is no place for mystery. But this state of disenchantment is a difficult one because people seem to like wonder.” — Christine Folch
For my daughter Ella & my aunt Penny (by rachel.grace)
Shovels & Ropes @thebluestone