A great meditation on identity and authorship, which could apply to more than book-writing.

What is the internet? by Paul Miller, who’s taking a year off from it.

A perfect Japanese word: Tsundoku (n.) buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread.

Gotye does Kutiman with Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra.

Underworld and the Olympics opening ceremony.

When Tom Coates fell over. The closest I ever came to this was numbing one of my fingers with an overloaded plastic bag, which lasted a few weeks. Six months and a whole arm sounds horrific.

Finally, a few retweets:

@tomewing: “It is not for man to put ‘final’ in a filename. That is something only the Gods can know.” Would that I had heeded the old man’s words!

@themiltonjones: My research shows that swallows don’t migrate to Africa. They just flap around under the weight of a tracking device.

@dandouglas: C:\KEEP_OUT_GODDAMMIT\Projects\Novellas\In_Progress\Fanfic\Erotic\Tech\Factual\Solar_System\The_Sexual_Awakening_Of_The_Curiosity_Rover.docx

20 August 2012 · Weblog

tsundoku — it is scary to find that an entire group of language speakers can see right into your faults.

Added by tsundoku ichiban on 14 October 2012.