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Nora Ephron Esquire, 1972 I have to begin with a few words about androgyny. In grammar school, in the fifth and sixth grades, we were all tyrannized by a rigid set of rules that supposedly determined whether we were boys or girls. The episode in Huckleberry Finn where Huck is disguised as a girl and…

Note: This was posted as a response to David Lowery’s Letter to Emily White , which was in response to her article “I Never Owned Any Music to Begin With” . White is an intern at NPR’s All Songs Consi

When I started grad school, ten years ago, I was pretty cocky. I felt well-read, confident in my grasp of American literary history. The paradoxical effect of getting a Ph.D. in English is that it leaves you feeling less knowledgeable, less well read than before you start. This is mostly the effect…

This post is the fourth of seven posts about the future . Caveat lector. In Jorge Luis Borges’ short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius a mysterious encyclopaedia entry leads to the discovery of a new

I gave a quick lunchtime talk at Lighthouse today, as part of a Happenstance open day. It was essentially a quotedump of what’s in my head at the moment, but several people asked for the links mention

High School Computing: The Inside Story From The Computing Teacher (now Learning & Leading with Technology),vol. 19 no. 8, pp. 51-52. Copyright (c) 1992, ISTE (InternationalSociety for Technology in E

Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . April 2001, rev. April 2003 (This article is derived from a talk given at the 2001 FranzDeveloper Symposium.) In the summer of 1995, my friend Rob

January 2004 Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself andbeen embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actuallydress like that? We did. And we had no idea howsilly we looked.It's the nature of fas

20 May 2011 edit I seem to be getting a lot of emails these days asking a deceptively simplequestion: “How do I get better at JavaScript?” What follows are somesemi-random thoughts on the subject: The

The brother-in-law lives in the ‘burbs and needed five trees removed. Not big trees — 10 to 15 feet tall, six-inch trunks. Not a problem. I live on the edge of a redwood forest in Northern California.

John Cage: Scores from the early 1950s February 8 - April 18, 1992 Museum of Contemporary Art Cage and Rauschenberg: Purposeful Purpos elessness Meets Found Order * No period in recent history transfo

Stevphen Shukaitis hears the continuing resonance of Joe McPhee’s Nation Time, his 1971 free jazz album rooted in the US black cultural nationalist movement of the 1960s and 70s, and McPhee’s later interest in the ideas of management theorist Edward de Bono “They return transformed into insects,…

Issue #6 (Mar 84) | Essays By: Mike Hames | Featuring: Albert Ayler

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