August 2010
I wrote in a question to the Idle Thumbs Podcast a...
Another wave of "are YA novels worth fretting...
With the release of Mockingjay, the last volume of Suzanne Collins’ trilogy of YA novels, we’re seeing another spate of adults writing essays about why they read “Young Adult” books (examples being The NY Times and The Awl).
The same sort of thing has happened a few times before: the Harry Potter series brought a series of impassioned defenses of the novels’...
The last bit of book porn for a while.
I promise. We finally unpacked all of our books, and here they are (along with half or so of our DVDs).
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Critics →
A gimmick tumblr by yours truly, showcasing the best exemplars of critical analysis on this film.
(And for those wondering, I’m very excited to see it next week)
The near-deafening soundtrack to my life right...
After months and months of national hardship, hope...
That’s right; football is back!
RIP Tony Judt
I mentioned it on twitter last night, but it’s finally been confirmed that Tony Judt has passed away. He had been fighting progressively-worsening amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has miraculously survived for decades with the same affliction, but Judt was not so lucky.
In recent months, he wrote about how ALS...
Tumblr’s Identity Crisis →
cameronmoll:
Following a very positive review, Khoi Vinh describes why he’s not a Tumblr user:
As much as I admire it, though, I can’t bring myself to use it. Partly this is because one of its key ideas, the conspicuous omission of comments, is a deal breaker for me. I really value the comments that I get here on Subtraction.com and can’t imagine blogging without the continually rewarding...
Verizon and Google conspiring to end net... →
And Google has officially chucked any remainder of “Don’t be evil” out the window.
(For those unfamiliar, so far the Internet has been characterized by everything playing on an even field. You pay different amounts for different speed connections to the internet, but after that it’s all fair game.
Google and Verizon are essentially planning to make it so you must pay...
RIP Google Wave →
Despite being technically impressive and theoretically better suited for some use cases, Google Wave never really took off.
Begin the postmortems! (My bet is on this one.)
