The New Yorker has a recent writeup on the financial crisis titled “Melting Into Air” with the tagline “Before the financial system went bust, it went postmodern.”
The article draws a surprising (and possibly slightly facetious) parallel between “derivatives,” a type of financial product whose value is “derived” from another transaction of an actual product, and [...]
A bit of shameless re-blogging to get me back into the swing of things:
Collins English Dictionary is adding an entry for meh (“an interjection to suggest indifference or boredom”) to next year’s 30th anniversary edition. It was the winner of a campaign launched by Collins seeking public nominations for new words, and it beat out [...]
A month ago, my roommate Zach discovered a darkroom in the basement of Mather tower. After seeing some of the prints that he developed, I had to give black and white film photography a try. Seven rolls of film and twenty hours in the darkroom later, I have my first few prints. Check out the [...]
From the blog of the New Yorker music critic Alex Ross:
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Took Lucas’ digital SLR camera out for a spin today. That camera absolutely drinks in colors, sometimes to the point that I don’t believe the colors were from the original scene. I took this opportunity to get a few more recent shots up on Flickr, along with a couple of re-discoveries from a long time [...]