January 2010
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“When it was up, the club was described as “The place to be if you think...”
– The Gazette: “Kimveer Gill fan club pulled from Facebook” by Philip Authier, Jan 30, 2010
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“I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you...”
– The New Yorker, “Franny” by J.D. Salinger, Jan 29, 1955, pp. 34-35
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“Le cancre aussi a fait des progrès, qui dormait près du poêle, qui dort...”
– Le blog de Éric Chevillard / § 790 Previously on Skandalon
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“Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,
I cannot settle on a single one.
They...”
– “We Are Many” by Pablo Neruda, in We Are Many (poems), translated by Alastair Reid, Cape Goliard Press, 1967, Grossman (New York, NY), 1968. More of Neruda’s poems online over at PoemHunter.com Compare with An Evening With Mr. Teste by Paul Valery (French poet, essayist and...
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“Although none of it (that I’m aware of) has been done to test media...”
– In the Dark: The Metaphysics of Media: “The Metaphysics of Media” by Peter K. Fallon, Feb. 17th, 2008. This is an excerpt from the blog of Peter K. Fallon, author of The Metaphysics of Media (The University of Chicago Press, Amazon) and Associate Professor of Journalism at Roosevelt...
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Google Reader to Tumblr
✖ Via Skandalon [image editing] Two ways to post directly from an RSS feed reader (Google Reader) to a Tumblr account: 1) From Userscript.org : A script allowing you to post with or without a form (using a keyboard shortcut). This must be the fastest way to dump something on a Tumblr account. 2) On August 12th, 2009 Google Reader added a feature enabling (extra geeky) users to customize...
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Tumblr vs. Posterous
Peg on Tech: “Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass”, Jan 19th, 2010“How come [Posterous is] eating dust from a small startup started by a high school dropout? The answer is as easy as it is counter-intuitive: Tumblr is a New York company and Posterous is a Silicon Valley company. Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed...
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“The almost insoluble task consists of refusing to allow oneself to be rendered...”
– Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno, Suhrkamp Verlag, [1944]1951, part 1, §34.“Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. He was a...
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“When I watch documentaries about the Vietnam War era in the United States,...”
– Marco Arment In 1944, Theodor W. Adorno may have experienced a similar feeling when he wrote:“The almost insoluble task consists of refusing to allow oneself to be rendered dumb, either by the power of others or by one’s own powerlessness.” (translated by Dennis Redmond, 2005) This...
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“Then he made a curious remark one could think about for the rest of the week. It...”
– The Fight by Norman Mailer, Boston: Little Brown and Company, first edition, 1975, p. 45 [Amazon] The Fight is Norman Mailer’s account of the historical boxing match that took place on October 30th, 1974 between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali. Learn more about it on Wikipedia. From the...
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A nice way to communicate tasty snakes of visual... →
urbanfields :Skandalon is mainly an iconographic and text archive related to communication, technology and art. Whenever possible, adequate references are provided. Urban Fields Kitchen is all about “little snaks of urban imagination”.
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Internet Archeologist Find Ruins Of 'Friendster'... →
Innovation Is dead:
A fake video from The Onion about the social site friendster. Something called Facebook happened, but they don’t know. What will be left of us and how will they interpret it ? Indeed, a good reminder that we’re the ruins of tomorrow.
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