February 2008
26 posts
The Double Standard in Crisis Resolution →
“As the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by almost a third last month while the White House and Congress scrambled to concoct a $150 billion-plus fiscal stimulus package to loosen up the credit crunch, economic policy makers in developing countries couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow.”
lowercase L →
Something new to baffle and irritate you
Polaroid to halt production of instant film →
Aw, fuck.
Wikipedia: Category:Literary hoaxes →
Wikipedia: Common knowledge (logic) →
“There is common knowledge of p in a group of agents G when all the agents in G know p, they all know that they know p, they all know that they all know that they know p, and so on ad infinitum.”
Comparisons of 2008 Presidential Candidates'... →
Ready? Fight!
Mike Thorne: The making of Wire's Pink Flag →
Mark E. Smith reads Lovecraft →
Ask Metafilter: Why is psychoanalysis still... →
The quarters at Hirschberg's arcade →
“The original arcades were magic circles: places circumscribed from everyday life where you could perform a sacrifice and achieve the experience of another world. Hirschberg’s arcade is a nested magic circle: a place circumscribed from everyday life where the otherworldly experience is you get to visit the sort of magic circle they don’t have anymore.”
“It’s easy to see why those of us with a taste for absolutes and verities...”
– Ray Davis
the beastly beatitudes of donald b. →
“The exactitude and hospital gleam of the Nouveau Roman is a forgotten fashion while Barthelme’s musical carousel still beckons, raising its painted hooves. Chalk one up for the home team.”
Flickr Set: The Sto. Niño Shrine and Imelda Marcos... →