Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Casting a spell on clutter:  memento mori - remember you will die






“It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.”
Neil Gaiman, American Gods 

 



Analyzing clutter and  humor is like dissecting a frog, warned E.B. and Katharine S. White —nobody cares, and the frog dies in the process. Still academics Persist 


"You don’t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you’re hoping to see blood on the ceiling"... Updike 


 

'Melbourne ... can never be Sydney': Report recommends massive overhaul of CBD nightlife


Shots and strong drinks would flow all night and Sydney's lockout laws would be scrapped everywhere except Kings Cross if recommendations from a report into the city's economy after dark are adopted.

YouTube is Experimenting With Ways To Make Its Algorithm Even More Addictive MIT Technology Review