Nov 6th
Nov 5th
“Nearly a hundred thousand million stars are turning in the circle of the Milky Way, and long ago other races on the worlds of other suns must have scaled and passed the heights that we have reached. Think of such civilizations, far back in time against the fading afterglow of Creation, masters of a Universe so young that life as yet had come only to a handful of worlds. Theirs would have been a loneliness we cannot imagine, the loneliness of gods looking out across infinity and finding none to share their thoughts.”
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—Arthur C. Clarke, “The Sentinel”
From the short story that was expanded into 2001: A Space Odyssey.
From the short story that was expanded into 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu
Sort of like Kubrick 2001: The space odyssey explained (which is a masterpiece of film analysis in my opinion).
Funk & Jazz Album Polls
I Love Music had two polls that ran this week that produced some interesting results. One for the best 70s funk album and one for the best ever jazz album.
Nov 3rd
“The trouble with a ‘scientific’ argument, of course, is that it is not made in the real world, but in a laboratory by an unimaginative academic relying solely on empirical facts.”
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—A N Wilson brilliantly eviscerates arguments based on shaky ‘empirical facts’
Oct 31st
Black mage from Final Fantasy carved in jack-o’-lantern by Kevin Meehan
(Via Create Digital Music.)
Oct 28th
“I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It’s like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark.”
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—Burial, describing his music
Oct 27th
The New Yorkerest
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The best article from each issue of The New Yorker magazine
I agree with the selections that I remember.
(Via I Hate The New Yorker.)
