Just read: Herodias by Gustave Flaubert đź“š. The story is well told, although short. You probably already know how it ends. “He must increase, I must decrease.”
A box full of Snickers.
There is a theory that black metal flourished in Norway because there was never a counter-reformation in Scandinavia. Philosophy Professor Justin E. H. Smith touches on this in his piece on Weird Catholic Twitter.
The latest episode of the Fountains of Carrots podcast features an interview with Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble, who is the nun known on Twitter for having a skull on her desk. Sister Theresa regularly meditates on her own death, in the Memento Mori tradition.
On the Mozilla Security blog, the Firefox team details their new implementation of cross-site browsing protection by keeping cookies from each site you visit in their own, separate containers. Firefox has had the ability to use different containers with separate cookies explicitly for some time with their “Containers” feature (I love to use this for testing with different identities on the same site).
Ernie Smith from Tedium takes a good look at Vivaldi, still probably the browser that is most directed at power users and the only one from which you can upload to Instagram without an extension.
I’m kind of sad that our cat Snickers has ceased her habit of starting the evenings by “hiding” under the shower curtain.
CJ Chivers writes about a type of writing for the web that I hope to firmly remain in the tradition of: link blogging.
When Batman came out in 1989, I was in peak comic mode and playing the Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game by TSR pretty heavily. I had a promotional magazine for the movie that I pored over daily. My dresser drawer contained a Batman t-shirt (drawn more in the comic books style) and it was my favorite piece of clothing. The trip to the theater with my dad, where I wore my t-shirt proudly, felt like a holiday ritual.
When I was undergoing chemotherapy in 1995, I would have to listen to Rush Limbaugh while my dad would drive me to the hospital. In some ways, I felt that the poison that went into my ears was more virulent than what was going into my veins.
By most accounts, evangelical Christians are concerned about the path this country is taking and encroaching restrictions on religious liberty. This is usually cited as their main reason for supporting the former president, despite the fact that he possessed almost every character trait they had vocally opposed in past leaders. Beyond supporting the president, they have appeared, at times, to almost want to make him their king.
New Order with Florida sun drenched, blissed out vocals.
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Guitar practice for the little guy.
Anne Applebaum, in a strongly resonant piece for the Atlantic, about the world of the COVID vaccine rollout.
If Morrissey had been enamored with Brazil, the Smiths might have made a song like Rio De Janeiro by Always You (formerly Ablebody). 🎵
My superstar, heavily used apps.
I remember hearing Widowspeak years ago, when their album Almanac came out and not getting too attached to it. When Apple Music recommended a song from their new EP, I gave the band another try in the flow of a new music playlist. I quickly reversed the direction of the playlist and returned to revisit the track. I listened to “Romeo and Juliet” about a dozen times today.
Damon Krukowski writes for NPR about the differences between Bandcamp and Spotify. Though I would expect as much from an independent musician like Krukowski, the piece is not exactly kind to Spotify. Although they are not one of my favorites, Galaxy 500, of which he was a part, are one of the most influential bands of their generation. I would guess all their streams on Spotify have netted them a meager sum.
Giorgia Angiuli is a musical polymath. I don’t know my electronic subgenres as well as I should, so I have a hard time pinning her music down into a simple descriptor, but this video is incredible.1 However you may want to label the songs (“A rose by any other name,” etc, etc.), the variety of instruments and watching what goes into making the sounds coalesce is mesmerizing.
Tony Hawk just did what is most likely his last 720. I am a few years younger than Hawk and I sometimes have difficulty dealing with the fact that I really can’t skateboard any longer.
In 1995, a young, optimistic technologist found himself frustrated by the dire prognostications of a splenetic Luddite. The technologist, Kevin Kelly, a cofounder of Wired magazine, went to interview the Luddite, Kirkpatrick Sale, at his apartment. The interview was a pretext for Kelly to challenge Sale to a bet about the future of a society influenced by the rapid gains in computing technology. Kelly had a strong belief that society would benefit tremendously from advances in computing.
After listening to the latest episode of the Core Intuition podcast, I’m realizing that I’m not the only one with VR pessimism.
I don’t know how long I’m going to want to examine the previous four years, at least as we climb our way out of this mud pit. Maybe when we’ve left the pit far enough behind us, we can talk about it on a walk between the oak trees, breathing air that we aren’t afraid is diseased.
It feels like we should be able to take a mulligan and call this New Year’s Day.
In this post on how a Christian lives, Randall McRoberts writes about putting the focus on your faith and dying to self.
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