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Wednesday Miscellanea
Angry Birds games have 200 million monthly active players [The Guardian]. A few interesting names – Pynchon, Murakami, Eco, De Lillo (along with quite a few not so interesting ones) appear on NicerOdds’s list of who will win the Nobel … Continue reading
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Yet Even More Post-Holiday Thoughts
An abridged list of accompanying works during the trip to Bonaire July 4-16 Pina (Wim Wenders documentary, 2011) Dowland’s Tears (Lute Music by John Dowland, Vol. 2) (listen on Spotify) This is Not the End of the Book (Eco and … Continue reading
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Thursday Miscellanea
The full text of Moby Dick converted to 2D barcodes. The official Vimeo iPhone App is now available – download it here. Awkward Stock Photos is a collection of awkward stock photos.
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The Kindle Million Club
Steig Larsson is the first member of Amazon’s Kindle Million Club, authors who have sold 1 million copies of Kindle books. All three books in Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy are now in the top 10 bestselling Kindle books of all time.
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Friday Miscellanea
Kevin Costner’s ocean cleaning invention “Ocean Therapy” will be used by British Petroleum for testing in clean up of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Esquire has published an excerpt of the new Bret Easton Ellis novel, a sequel to Less … Continue reading
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A Novel, Published
I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of my 2005 novel “Sakernas tillstånd” in the iBookstore as well as through Barnes & Noble. It will later be available through Amazon.
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Tuesday Miscellanea
The New Yorker has a new piece of fiction by David Foster Wallace. Leonardo’s Last Supper has been recreated as a digital image by researchers who used scanning technology to isolate what they think are the original pigment colors – this … Continue reading
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Monday Miscellanea
Paste Magazine lists the best books, movies, documentaries etc from the 2000s. Germaine Greer wants you to read Proust. Russell Davies says the internet isn’t killing anything. Boston Globe writes about the importance of gay couples as potential arts and classical music … Continue reading
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On (trying to) read Infinite Jest
Now, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy; embarking on the Infinite Summer project was a half-serious commitment I thought of as something challenging but also intellectually stimulating to fill a few slow summer weeks with. I’m still trying … Continue reading
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Thursday Miscellanea
MacWorld has a very interesting article on how the new Remote Wipe feature on the iPhone works. Chinese conceptualist artist Song Dong’s exhibition Waste Not contains every single item left behind by his mother. Read the NYTimes review here. There’s … Continue reading
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On Legitimacy
Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives. This incredulity is undoubtedly a product of progress in the sciences: but that progress in turn presupposes it. To the obsolescence of the metanarrative apparatus of legitimation corresponds, most … Continue reading
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Infinite Achievement
We sort of play. But it’s all hypothetical, somehow. Even the ‘we’ is theory: I never get quite to see the distant opponent, for all the apparatus of the game. from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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Quote from Infinite Jest
You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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Summer projects
In between learning Hiragana (平仮名), drilling into the underpinnings of WordPress and preparing for this autumn’s Composer Festival by studying the music of Thomas Adès, the biggest challenge this summer is definitely the decision to join the Infinite Summer project that is … Continue reading
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Sunday Miscellanea
Friends of Swedish authors Bengt Ohlsson and Carl-Johan Vallgren will have a chance of hearing them both in conversation Thursday evening at the Bonniers Konsthall (link in Swedish). Moderna in Stockholm presents Reality Revisited, an exhibition that features “more than … Continue reading
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HD on Flickr, and DFW in the New Yorker
Those with a pro account can now upload HD video to Flickr. The New Yorker has an online feature on The Pale King manuscript by David Foster Wallace.
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