the passage of time is flicking dimly upon the screenTumblr (3.0; @goldenhours)http://golden.cpl593h.net/<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/f9vtU11tabrnnaq1weofPy6B_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>Rockwell Kent, from <i><a href="http://www.fedpo.com/BookDetail.php?bk=232">Moby Dick</a></i>, 1930http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43280351http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43280351Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:47:56 -0500<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/summa/5097.htm">FAQ: The punishment of the damned</a>: St. Thomas answers all your questions.http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43187260http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43187260Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:10:49 -0500<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/21/080721crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=all">Turf War</a>: “A lawn may be pleasing to look at, or provide the children with a place to play, or offer the dog room to relieve himself, but it has no productive value. The only work it does is cultural.”http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43171310http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43171310Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:53:02 -0500<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/f9vtU11tabqhb2lt40gPS6dh_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43166397http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/43166397Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:57:24 -0500<a href="http://halbrindley.com/photos/leopard-seq/01.html">Leopard killing a crocodile</a>: !!!http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42970957http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42970957Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:17:45 -0500<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/f9vtU11tabhz1ojghHeMvHJV_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42504225http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42504225Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:04:16 -0500<a href="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9250">America's beer</a>: It’s PBR if you don’t mind outsourcing; Sam Adams, otherwise.http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42349688http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42349688Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:33:29 -0500“If anybody thinks he can draw a square better than Malevich, he can come on and fucking do it.”<br/><br/> - <em>From the introduction to the catalogue of Art4.ru, <i>Harper’s</i>, August 2008</em>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42329261http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42329261Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:48:55 -0500<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/f9vtU11tabdzxs2eK9e2oJb1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/darkshapesprowl">darkshapes</a>, Muhammad Ali, 2005http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42148955http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42148955Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:18:14 -0500<a href="http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/albumofthemonth/">Julian Cope's album of the month</a>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42125777http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/42125777Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:42:32 -0500<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/f9vtU11tabb82jmxX8mWkbpy_500.gif"/><br/><br/><a href="http://thediagram.com/6_5/sdb_psychic.html">DIAGRAM: Psychic Digestion</a>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41959452http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41959452Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:42:47 -0500“The idea that BoingBoing has won the status of an ‘indie NewYorkTimes’ makes me puke!”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/2008/07/everyone-should-linkblog.html">Jorn Barger</a></em>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41904293http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41904293Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:00:57 -0500<a href="http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00168">Senate Roll Call: FISA Amendments Act of 2008</a>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41702600http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41702600Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:02:16 -0500“But I would very much miss books as material objects were they to disappear. The tactility of books assists my memory, for one thing. I can’t remember the quote I’m searching for, or maybe even the title of the work that contains it, but I can remember that the book is green, that the margins are unusually wide, and that the quote lies two-thirds of the way down a right-hand page.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121217626838633437.html">Luc Sante</a></em>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41699803http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41699803Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:25:20 -0500<a href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2008/07/09/space-shuttle-gets-its-final-assignments">Space shuttle gets its final assignments</a>: “The future of manned space flight looks a lot like the past.” Which is good.http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41640197http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41640197Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:06:47 -0500<a href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/arecibo_letter.php">Save Arecibo: Write to Congress</a>: A senator/representative letter generator to save funding for the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41090835http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41090835Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:02:20 -0500<a href="http://membracid.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/i-have-pubic-lice-in-my-mailbox/">I have pubic lice in my mailbox</a>http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41050668http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/41050668Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:20:15 -0500<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_gopnik">G.K. Chesterton: The Back of the World (abstract)</a>: “The trouble for those of us who love Chesterton’s writing is that the anti-Semitism is not incidental: it rises from the logic of his poetic position.”http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/40920121http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/40920121Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:14:31 -0500<a href="http://wemadethis.typepad.com/we_made_this/2008/07/great-ideas-volume-iii.html">Great Ideas, Volume III</a>: Penguin has lately been making amends for their crimes against book design during the 80s and 90s.http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/40871264http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/40871264Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:27:42 -0500<a href="http://rc3.org/2008/07/03/barack-obamas-fisa-shame/">Barack Obama's FISA shame</a>: The audacity of capitulationhttp://golden.cpl593h.net/post/40871265http://golden.cpl593h.net/post/40871265Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:27:42 -0500