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Cyndi Lauper, "When You Were Mine" (comp. Prince), single (Epic Records, 1985)
Prince originally wrote this in 1980.
How the Virtual Academic(TM) Works
From Chicago's writing program -- a short, sharp analysis of what makes academicese so maddening. Thank you to Louise for posting. The "toy" -- a random sentence generator which actually produces things that sound authentic -- is at http://j.mp/38VtE
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe (Legos and organ donors)
"When you take apart a Lego house and mix the pieces into the bin, where does the house go? -- It's in the bin. -- No, those are just pieces. They could become spaceships or trains. The house was an arrangement. The arrangement doesn't stay with the pieces and it doesn't go anywhere else. It's just gone."
Karl Marx, "On The Jewish Question (Zur Judenfrage)" (1843)
"Where the political state has attained its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means, and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society, and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated by it."
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Add Sticky NoteThe perfect political state is, by its nature, man’s species-life,
as opposed to his material life. All the preconditions of this egoistic
life continue to exist in
civil society
outside the sphere of the state,
but as qualities of civil society. Where the political state has attained
its true development, man – not only in thought, in consciousness, but
in reality, in life – leads a twofold life, a heavenly and an earthly
life: life in the political community, in which he considers himself a
communal being, and life in civil society, in which he acts as a private
individual, regards other men as a means, degrades himself into a means,
and becomes the plaything of alien powers. The relation of the political
state to civil society is just as spiritual as the relations of heaven
to earth. The political state stands in the same opposition to civil society,
and it prevails over the latter in the same way as religion prevails over
the narrowness of the secular world – i.e., by likewise having
always to acknowledge it, to restore it, and allow itself to be dominated
by it. In his most immediate reality, in civil society, man is a secular
being. Here, where he regards himself as a real individual, and is so regarded
by others, he is a fictitious phenomenon. In the state, on the other hand,
where man is regarded as a species-being, he is the imaginary member of
an illusory sovereignty, is deprived of his real individual life and endowed
with an unreal universality.- This is a crucial passage for Harrington in The Politics at God's Funeral (1983). - on 2009-10-21
Welcome to bookdarts.com
I had a big stash of these. I went through a period of not using them much, but now I want them and I can't find them. I may have to order more. $20 for 200.
How American Health Care Killed My Father - The Atlantic (September 2009)
One of the smartest all-around pieces I've read on healthcare reform yet. Seen on @karl_bucus 's Twitter stream.
D. Martin Luthers Werke, Weimarer Ausgabe - WA
This is a "table of contents" for Google Books' scanned version of the Weimar edition of Martin Luther's works (the massive standard German edition -- I'm not sure how many volumes it runs to now but it must be close to a hundred).
Twitter on Paper
This guy will write a Twitter post on a real, physical piece of paper and mail it to you! For free! How cool is that?
aM laboratory: tonematrix
I can't describe this. Don't visit the link unless you have some time to kill, because you won't be able to stop fooling with it.
Cornify - Unicorns & Rainbows On-Demand
Wow! A little javascript can make magic happen! Namely, in the form of making sparkly unicorns and rainbows appear all over your photo or page.
Bonhoeffer's sermon at Fanø, Denmark, 1934: "The Church and the Peoples of the World"
The full text of his famous ecumenical sermon, quoted in a blog post. I'm bookmarking this mainly because the English text of the sermon -- which is brilliant -- is very hard to find online.
Defence of Poesie (Ponsonby, 1595)
"Now for the poet, he nothing affirmeth..."
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Add Sticky Noteof all
writers
under the Sunne, the Poet is the least lyer: and though he wold, as a
Poet
can scarecely be a lyer. The Astronomer with his cousin the
Geometrician,
can hardly escape, when they take upon them to measure the height of
the
starres. How often thinke you do the Phisitians lie, when they averre
things
good for sicknesses, which afterwards send Charon{102}
a great number of soules drowned in a potion, before they come to his
Ferrie?
And no lesse of the rest, which take upon them to affirme. Now for the
Poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth: for as I take
it,
to lie, is to affirme that to bee true, which is false. So as the other
Artistes, and especially the Historian, affirming manie things, can in
the clowdie knowledge of mankinde, hardly escape from manie lies. But
the
Poet as I said before, never affirmeth, the Poet never maketh any
Circles
about your imagination{103}, to conjure you to
beleeve
for true, what he writeth: he citeth not authorities of other
histories,
even for his entrie, calleth the sweete Muses to inspire unto him a
good
invention. In troth, not laboring to tel you what is, or is not, but
what
should, or should not be. And therefore though he recount things not
true,
yet because he telleth them not for true, he lieth not:- Brilliant! - on 2008-08-13
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