11.01.2009
FORA.tv - Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Gen
Interesting talk by a great thinker of our times. Are genres still in modern culture? Interesting thoughts on romance and violencene and their role in the hollywood industry.
Hi, I'm Matthias. I love music, nonsense and people that don't take life seriously. I enjoy tinkering with web stuff and craft interfaces with passion. This tank is full of random things I stumble across and enjoy. Stay hungry, stay foolish - never settle.
Interesting talk by a great thinker of our times. Are genres still in modern culture? Interesting thoughts on romance and violencene and their role in the hollywood industry.
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A lovely article. Finally we have a name for all the kids with tight jeans and keffiyeh.
On my sunday morning running track through the forest I met a girl riding a horse and using her mobile. After an hour I met her again and she was still using the phone while sitting on the back if this huge animal. Sad but true, horses are not what they used to be.
Eat local - Nice infographics. Nice animations. (via infosthetics.com)
“People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive. The knee-jerk explanation is that computers are responsible for our increasingly illegible scrawl, but Steve Graham, a special-education and literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says that’s not the case. The simple fact is that kids haven’t learned to write neatly because no one has forced them to. ‘Writing is just not part of the national agenda anymore,’ he says.”
Finally, I’ve got an excuse for my horrible style of handwriting…
