Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
~ Walter Kirn
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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You may remember the syllabus. Handed out on the first day of class, it was a revered and simple artifact that would outline the plan of a college course. It was a pragmatic document, covering contact information, required books, meeting times, and a schedule. But it was also a symbolic one, representing the educational part of the college experience in a few dense and hopeful pages.
~ Ian Bogost via The Atlantic
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Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn’t know how to lie.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Learning Object
via Deutsche Welle
Why is Indonesia spending billions to build its new capital?
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Exile has always served as a powerful engine for fiction. To find yourself displaced, whether self-imposed or inflicted by a state, is to be simultaneously inside and outside; you gain intimate proximity to your new society while still standing at a distance from it, seeing things real insiders can’t.
~ Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
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Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Campus Life at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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KFI’s John Ziegler is not a journalist — he is an entertainer. Or maybe it’s better to say that he is part of a peculiar, modern, and very popular type of news industry, one that manages to enjoy the authority and influence of journalism without the stodgy constraints of fairness, objectivity, and responsibility that make trying to tell the truth such a drag for everyone involved. It is a frightening industry, though not for any of the simple reasons most critics give.
~ David Foster Wallace
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