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Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Draw a Stickman

The Computer Dilemma Dvorak News Blog: General interest observations and true web-log.

The Giving Tree Movie (1973), narrated by Shel Silverstein (by farpman).

Every time I try to read this book to Matthew, I end up fighting back tears.

Cult of Done (by spatulated)

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

— Composition. Strunk, William, Jr. 1918. Elements of Style

“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.”

50mg:

Phrases We Owe to Shakespeare – via English Muse

Becky, a 20-year-old English Lit geek living in London, scribbled out this list in a Moleskine notebook at 3 am a couple nights ago. She posted it on her Tumblr page,

Ponzi Scheme vs. Social Security - By Veronique de Rugy - The Corner - National Review Online

This is another perspective on my other post on the differences between the two schemes.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Wikiquote

Fast or Slow

Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive

Google Gravity

Mass in Wartime via New Liturgical Movement

terrysdiary:

How a bad idea starts: “That looks easy… I could do that.” How a good idea idea starts: “That looks fun… I should do that.”

Conservatives were always skeptical of the campaign to democratize higher education, arguing that it was bound to lead to lowered standards and loss of purpose. Events have confirmed their predictions, even if their diagnosis has done little to alter the path of the American university.

— What’s wrong with our universities? by James Piereson - The New Criterion

Typewriters live on in India