The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
— Paul Horgan born in 1903
“Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
― Hamlet
Film, markets, museums ...
Huskisson — Travelling Film Festival - Sydney Film Festival
70-Year-Old Man Wins 1,000-Kilometer Horse Race in Mongolia New York Times
Even at Jervis Bay, the world is full of mirrors, and the internet gives us infinite ways to view ourselves. In the quest for self-knowledge, the mind makes an ideal starting point, and on the web, the lines between medically established disorders, pop-psychology, and metaphysics blur. Like other diagnoses, the brain’s quirks, named and categorized or just speculated over outside a professional’s purview, can become a filter through which people define the totality of their lives. Sun sign, Aries; rising sign, anxiety.
Questions that are rarely asked.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Tell If Tantric Sex Can Fix Your Relationship.
Against petitions. "Being confronted with an arsenal of experts is about as conducive to conversation as a firing squad"... Consultants
Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65. MIT Technology Review – Meet the next generation ofentrepreneurs. They’re all over 65. “…That’s why Kamber created Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that preps seniors to hack their way through a world conspiring to keep them sidelined. The glass door reads “Aging with Attitude.” With its sleek grays and wood tables, it rivals the WeWork next door in the Chelsea district of Manhattan… The post-60 set is here for many reasons. By and large, they do not want your wearable panic buttons and fall detectors, thankyouverymuch. They’re here for the free classes and camaraderie, to learn to find the photos their daughter is putting on Facebook, to grok the smart lock system their apartment building is installing whether they like it or not (and mostly not). They want to plug back into a world in which “technology has run them over,” as Kamber puts it. Roughly one in five arrive wanting to use technology to work and make money—whether because they’ve gotten bored with retirement or to turn a passion into a side hustle. They want Etsy and Instagram, Google Suite and Microsoft Word. They want to process payments on PayPal, and build a Wix website, and email video clips for acting auditions. They want to open stores aimed at older people like themselves, and launch magazines for curvy women, and drive around Harlem in their own dog-grooming van. They may want to reach their goals even more than younger folks do, because when you get to a certain age, “your horizon is shorter—your dreams become more critical and urgent,” Kamber says…”
Life Hacker: “Your web browser knows a lot about you, and tells the sites you visit a lot about you as well—if you let it. We’ve talked about which browsers are best at ad-blocking, but in this guide, we’re going to focus on the browsers that you’ll want to use to better conceal everything you’re up to from all the advertisers that want to track your digital life…”
Law.com: “It’s an incredibly wired world we live in. Over 82% of the adult American population has at least one social networking profile, and in a single minute we’ll witness 293,000 status updates posted to Facebook, more than 360,000 tweets on Twitter, and roughly 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube. And while lawyers have yet to catch up with the social media usage of the general population, the rate at which lawyers use social networking platforms has been climbing steadily every year. In-house lawyers are no different; according to a 2017 survey conducted by Zeughauser Group and Greentarget, 73% of corporate counsel report using social media sites like LinkedIn and Facebook for professional reasons…”
30 Unkind Things We Are Doing Without Even Realizing It
Outside – “Former professional cyclist Phil Gaimon, in partnership with editor Jonathan Hyla, gives us the rundown of The New Rules Of Cycling. His main messages? Don’t be a jerk, always wave to fellow cyclists, and don’t you dare litter.” [These rules apply every day, every where you are. Acknowledging strangers, picking up litter and well, being kind – very meaningful in these times…]
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Like Yiddish, English is rich in words for the foolish and intellectually
attenuated. This only makes sense, as linguistic supply always answers to worldly
demand, and we can never have enough words for run-of-the-mill idiocy. I
remember when the late critic Irving Howe described former U.S. Senator Alfonse
D’Amato as a “chowder-head,” a word he presumably borrowed from Moe Howard. And
of course in The Bank Dick, Egbert
Sousé (W.C. Fields) advises his prospective son-in-law, Og Oggilby (Grady
Sutton): “Don’t be a luddy-duddy! Don’t be a mooncalf! Don’t be a jabbernowl! You’re
not those, are you?” I have a friend who favors fuck-knuckle (Hyphen or one word? Please advise) and another who
prefers the monosyllabic simp. A
prosecuting attorney I knew in Indiana invariably called liberals “bed-wetters.”
― Hamlet
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An Author Won A Prize For Her Debut Novel, And She Split The Prize With The Other Nominees
Olivia Laing won a £10,000 prize for her novel Crudo over the weekend. But Laing said, in her acceptance speech, “Crudo was written against a kind of selfishness that’s everywhere in the world right now, against an era of walls and borders, winners and losers. Art doesn’t thrive like that and I don’t think people do either. We thrive on community, solidarity and mutual support and as such, and assuming this is agreeable to my fellow authors, I’d like the prize money to be split between us, to nourish as much new work as possible.” – The Guardian (UK)
The Marree Man Man is a carving of an Aboriginal hunter, etched into the surface of the red dusty
country a day’s drive north of Adelaide. At over four kilometres long and 28 kilometres around its circumference it’s thought to be the world’s largest work of art.
Even at Jervis Bay, the world is full of mirrors, and the internet gives us infinite ways to view ourselves. In the quest for self-knowledge, the mind makes an ideal starting point, and on the web, the lines between medically established disorders, pop-psychology, and metaphysics blur. Like other diagnoses, the brain’s quirks, named and categorized or just speculated over outside a professional’s purview, can become a filter through which people define the totality of their lives. Sun sign, Aries; rising sign, anxiety.
Questions that are rarely asked.
Power to the people: the home owners with $3.65 electricity bills
The Sydney Morning Herald
And Narara, on the NSW Central Coast, is showing how a community can run a multimillion-dollar ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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Power bills cheaper than your morning coffee
The Sydney Morning Herald
And Narara, on the NSW Central Coast, is showing how a community can run a multimillion-dollar ...
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Cook's 250th: Epic Indigenous stories to tell a different story
The 250th anniversary of James Cook's voyage down the East coast of Australia in 2020 is going to marked by truth telling, highlighting Indigenous stories of the first encounters.
Man saves coyote pup in sweet rescue video New York Post. The man is quite a character.
7 Ways Bees Continue To Amaze Us Popular Mechanics
NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Tell If Tantric Sex Can Fix Your Relationship.
Library of Congress Video via the Architect of the Capital – it is a fascinating story about the history of the adorable tiny doors in the Library of Congress. Enjoy the Potential deluxe accommodation for Congress' mice ... and rats
How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
On the death of book blogging (nothing unhappy)
The Indie Book Blog Is Dead says The Vulture, a commerical culturesite I may or may not have seen before – they all look and sound the same – focusing on another commercial culturesite that looks and sounds pretty much the same but one I had definitely seen before though had never considered to be a book blog, which has been sold to another commercial culturesite, signalling, apparently, the end of indie book blogs, a distinguishing phrase that stood out – independent of what, I wondered; any feeling for literature?
Meet the next generation of entrepreneurs. They’re all over 65. MIT Technology Review – Meet the next generation ofentrepreneurs. They’re all over 65. “…That’s why Kamber created Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that preps seniors to hack their way through a world conspiring to keep them sidelined. The glass door reads “Aging with Attitude.” With its sleek grays and wood tables, it rivals the WeWork next door in the Chelsea district of Manhattan… The post-60 set is here for many reasons. By and large, they do not want your wearable panic buttons and fall detectors, thankyouverymuch. They’re here for the free classes and camaraderie, to learn to find the photos their daughter is putting on Facebook, to grok the smart lock system their apartment building is installing whether they like it or not (and mostly not). They want to plug back into a world in which “technology has run them over,” as Kamber puts it. Roughly one in five arrive wanting to use technology to work and make money—whether because they’ve gotten bored with retirement or to turn a passion into a side hustle. They want Etsy and Instagram, Google Suite and Microsoft Word. They want to process payments on PayPal, and build a Wix website, and email video clips for acting auditions. They want to open stores aimed at older people like themselves, and launch magazines for curvy women, and drive around Harlem in their own dog-grooming van. They may want to reach their goals even more than younger folks do, because when you get to a certain age, “your horizon is shorter—your dreams become more critical and urgent,” Kamber says…”
Life Hacker: “Your web browser knows a lot about you, and tells the sites you visit a lot about you as well—if you let it. We’ve talked about which browsers are best at ad-blocking, but in this guide, we’re going to focus on the browsers that you’ll want to use to better conceal everything you’re up to from all the advertisers that want to track your digital life…”
Law.com: “It’s an incredibly wired world we live in. Over 82% of the adult American population has at least one social networking profile, and in a single minute we’ll witness 293,000 status updates posted to Facebook, more than 360,000 tweets on Twitter, and roughly 400 hours of video uploaded to YouTube. And while lawyers have yet to catch up with the social media usage of the general population, the rate at which lawyers use social networking platforms has been climbing steadily every year. In-house lawyers are no different; according to a 2017 survey conducted by Zeughauser Group and Greentarget, 73% of corporate counsel report using social media sites like LinkedIn and Facebook for professional reasons…”
Samuel D. Brunson (Loyola-Chicago), Afterlife of the Death Tax, 94 Ind. L.J. 355 (2019):
More
than a century ago, Congress enacted the modern estate tax to help pay
for World War I. Unlike previous iterations of the estate tax, though,
this one outlived the war and accumulated additional goals beyond merely
raising revenue. The estate tax helped ensure the progressivity of the
tax system as a whole, and it limited the hereditary ability to
accumulate wealth.
This
modern estate tax almost instantly met with opposition, though. The
opposition has never been sufficient to entirely eliminate the estate
tax, but it has severely weakened its ability to raise revenue and to
prevent the accumulation of wealth. As a result, today’s estate tax is
functionally a zombie: it accounts for less than one percent of federal
revenues and does little to prevent the accumulation of wealth among a
small group of citizens. The estate tax largely serves to evoke fear and
costly tax planning, but it only manages to bite the largest and
slowest estates.
30 Unkind Things We Are Doing Without Even Realizing It
Outside – “Former professional cyclist Phil Gaimon, in partnership with editor Jonathan Hyla, gives us the rundown of The New Rules Of Cycling. His main messages? Don’t be a jerk, always wave to fellow cyclists, and don’t you dare litter.” [These rules apply every day, every where you are. Acknowledging strangers, picking up litter and well, being kind – very meaningful in these times…]
English Language & Usage Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts.
'Only Fools and Flutterpates'
Now I can add another word to my opprobrious collection: flutter-pate. You’ll find it in the
first paragraph of Max Beerbohm’s “A Defence of Cosmetics”: “Indeed,
indeed, there is charm in every period, and only fools and flutterpates do not
seek reverently for what is charming in their own day.” The essay was first published
in the first edition of The Yellow Book,
in 1894, and collected in Beerbohm’s first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm (1896), under the title “The Pervasion of
Rouge.” The OED primly defines flutter-pate as “a flighty or
light-headed person.” The only citation is Beerbohm’s, though it’s credited not
to him but to The Yellow Book.
Flutter-pate is
attractive because it doesn’t sound derogatory and most of those for whom it’s
appropriate won’t know what it means.
