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que suerte!

A very good interview with Alan Moore on Salon.com. (I don’t normally link to stuff there, because it’s not “free”, but you can get to this thing by going past a little ad-dealie, if you’re not a subscriber.)

Connection is very useful; intelligence does not depend on the amount of neurons we have in our brains, it depends on the amount of connections they can make between them. So this suggests that having a multitude of information stored somewhere in your memory is not necessarily a great deal of use; you need to be able to connect this information into some sort of usable palette. I think my work tries to achieve that. It’s a reflection of the immense complexity of the times we’re living in. I think that complexity is one of the major issues of the 20th and 21st centuries. If you look at our environmental and political problems, what is underlying each is simply the increased complexity of our times. We have much more information, and therefore we are much more complex as individuals and as a society. And that complexity is mounting because our levels of information are mounting.

sick sick sick.
poor ol’ body

A treatise on movie acting.

This is the bit that bowled me over:

I?m tempted to explain this by saying that writing about the specifics of a performance is simply harder than writing about the specifics of a screenplay. However, I don?t think that this is precisely true, that is, I think it is harder for most writers to write about acting, but not because of any inherent difference in difficulty. Rather, writers, being writers, find it easier to treat movies as a piece of writing. They find it easier to write about the literary qualities that movies shares with other kinds of writing (plot, theme, dialogue, etc.) than it is to write about those qualities that movies share with interpretative/performing arts.

Which I think is absolutely true, but hadn’t ever really thought of it before. In spite of my undergraduate wearing of Literature and Theatre hats.

i lost my littlefluffy, but now i’ve found it again…

thank you, longstoryshortpier!

Koha is an open source library system… This is very cool.

Yeah, that comment spam has been getting a little out of hand…

Brown Equals Terrorist is a website describing one photography student’s difficulties with the coppers while taking photographs up in Seattle.

Be sure to read the “Artist Statement”.

Dehiscence, or some blank reminder of a something.

There’s some kind of serious. And but also.
Yes.

I’ve been seeing words and phrases around which suggest, increasingly, that one Internet Explorer is an unsafe little beastie. I’ve started recommending to my friends and relations that they check out the fancy, footloose little browser known as Firefox.

I recommend you check it out. It–dare I say it–makes tootling about on the internet FUN again.

That Wired magazine has some more about it.