WHILE THEY SLEPT
An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family.
By Kathryn Harrison.
290 pp. Random House. $25.
June 29, 2008
June 24, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/25/2008
Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- “The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.”
June 22, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/23/2008
Objectivism on One Foot — Ayn Rand Lexicon
Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of
man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by
man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of
knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others.
He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor
sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest
and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a
system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as
masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual
benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by
resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force
against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man’s
rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who
initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full
capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete
separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as
the separation of state and church.
My philosophy, Objectivism, holds that:
June 11, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/12/2008
Tear down your walls » Yanko Design
Anyone who has spent a significant period of time either living in a small windowless apartment or tripping through the galaxy on a mind bender may have at one point felt the urge to tear a hole in the wall to let some light in. Judging by this concept, designer Billy May almost surely has. His Torn Lighting is perfectly disguised on your wall while hiding it’s LED secrets from view. The result is the rather impressive illusion sure to leave your guests bemused, provided you paint it to match your walls of course.
- Anyone who has spent a significant period of time either living in a small windowless apartment or tripping through the galaxy on a mind bender may have at one point felt the urge to tear a hole in the wall to let some light in. Judging by this concept, designer Billy May almost surely has. His Torn Lighting is perfectly disguised on your wall while hiding it’s LED secrets from view. The result is the rather impressive illusion sure to leave your guests bemused, provided you paint it to match your walls of course.
June 8, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/09/2008
Book Review - 'While They Slept,' by Kathryn Harrison - Review - NYTimes.com
The violations that destroy human lives, or maim them, seem to demand telling. Possibly we seek such stories as ways to understand our smaller, more ordinary losses and griefs. Mythology and literature (and their descendant, the Freudian talking cure) manifest a profound hunger for narrating what is called, paradoxically, the unspeakable. Raped, her tongue torn out, Philomela becomes the nightingale, singing the perpetrator’s guilt. When Oedipus appears with bleeding eye-sockets, the tragic chorus simultaneously narrates and says it cannot speak; it looks while saying it must look away:
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Mail Tribune, 1984
Billy Gilley in 1984, when he was convicted of murdering his parents and sister.
What madness came upon you, what daemon
Leaped on your life with heavier
Punishment than a mortal man can bear?
No: I cannot even
Look at you, poor ruined one.
And I would speak, question, ponder,
If I were able. No.
You make me shudder.In the “Inferno” of Dante, Count Ugolino, forced to cannibalize his children’s corpses, is led to narrate the horror by Dante’s offer to retell the story up in the world above. Genesis 19 not only tells the story of incest between Lot and his daughters, but proceeds to name their offspring: Moab and Ben-ammi, and the Moabites and Ammonites descended from them. Abel’s blood “cries out” with its story, and the fratricide Cain is marked.
June 7, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/08/2008
Adobe’s popular AIR runtime is gaining more and more fans, and with that, far more applications than ever that cover a broad spectrum of tools. From fun applications that let you order pizza from your desktop to applications that let you track your investments online and off , the entire spectrum is out there, and this guide should help you find at least one or two that fit your life.
June 4, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/05/2008
Complex Circular Design Techniques | BittBox
Creating intricate circular designs and patterns may look difficult because the shapes can be very complicated, but you will be surprised at just how easy making these shapes can be. I will go over some neat tricks, tools, techniques, and settings that will have you pumping out perfect circular designs in no time using Illustrator.
This tutorial is split into 2 sections: The Rotate Tool, and a Custom Pattern Brush. The Rotate tool is faster and easier, but less accurate. So lets try it first, then move on to the brush techniques. Note: These techniques are intended for use with circles. Results will vary with other shapes.
Download the shapes I used for this tutorial so you can follow along:
June 3, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/04/2008
Solution Watch - Your descriptive source of solutions - Annotated
Solution Watch surveys the new generation of the web, reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best products and services.
June 1, 2008
Discovered Today! 06/02/2008
40+ Extremely Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART
How to Unleash Your Creativity: Scientific American
Discussion by several people including Julia Cameron of "The Artist's Way" about creativity and how to get around creative blocks.
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