"The mark of a
real writer is that she cares deeply about literary joinery, about keeping the lines of her prose plumb. That’s what makes writers writers: to them, prose isn’t just some Platonic vessel for serving up content;
they care about words. Any chief product officer who says “quality online does not equal craftsmanship” is channeling the utilitarian gospel of the managerial class, an instrumentalist vision of journalism that presumes writing, online, is just a turkey baster for injecting content into the user’s brain." Mark Dery, on
writing for the web.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Aug 2, 2010 -
86 comments
"American air superiority has been so complete for so long that we take it for granted. For more than half a century, we’ve made only rare use of the aerial-combat skills of a man like Cesar Rodriguez, who retired two years ago with more air-to-air kills than any other active-duty fighter pilot. But our technological edge is eroding. ... Now we have a choice. We can stock the Air Force with the expensive, cutting-edge F‑22—maintaining our technological superiority at great expense to our Treasury. Or we can go back to a time when the cost of air supremacy was paid in the blood of men like Rodriguez." -
The Last Ace, a feature article in this month's
The Atlantic by author
Mark Bowden.
posted by billysumday
on Feb 15, 2009 -
63 comments
Overlooked or ignored for far too long by the medical establishment,
twisty balloon dog anatomy and
gummi bear anatomy are just two of the crucial areas that
Moist Production's
Jason Freeny is working to bring wider attention to. He's also to be commended for his tireless efforts in raising awareness of Disney character suicide and death by unexplainable circumstance. And there's free downloadable desktops, kids!
[1 or 2 of the pages at Moist maybe NSFW] [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite
on May 29, 2008 -
7 comments
Forgive Some Sinner.
"With age 70 bearing down hard upon him, Dad had by then written for better than 40 years, during which he had become celebrated, later disgraced, and I would like to think ultimately redeemed... Good as some of his old stories are, it always seemed to me that his own was better than any of them; I only wish he had written it himself." Mark Kram Jr. examines his late father's complicated legacy.
posted by amyms
on Oct 27, 2007 -
9 comments
"In January 2005, Mark E. Smith and The Fall (described as 'one of the most enigmatic, idiosyncratic and chaotic garage bands of the last 30 years') were the subject of a BBC 4 TV documentary,
The Fall: The Wonderful and
Frightening World of Mark E. Smith."
parts 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
posted by item
on Jun 17, 2007 -
22 comments
