Wonder what Harlan Ellison thinks of writers’ blogs. If only there were someone willing to pay me for every word I write. (And yes, I get the irony: I didn’t pay Harlan Ellison for reposting this clip. But then, you didn’t pay to watch it, either.)
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Steichen at war
Preparing for the strike on Kwajelein
Photo by Edward J. Steichen aboard the U.S.S. Lexington (CV-16), November 1943
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1938 Bugatti 57S Atlantic
1938 Bugatti 57S Atlantic (via)
Continuous Partial Attention
Linda Stone on attention in the age of web overload. This 2006 talk is remarkably prescient. The addled, distracted feeling she described five years ago as “continuous partial attention” feels like a permanent condition now.
You are what you read
Wonderful ad for a bookstore in Lithuania called Mint Vinetu. (Via Quipsologies.)
Mark Twain on film
Mark Twain at his Connecticut home in 1909.
New York, 1902
The Flatiron Building under construction, ca. 1902. (Via Library of Congress.)
Phil Jackson, 1972
