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I am too drained to write anything original

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcqyB2Rbz8
The spatial theory of disease:
In his under-appreciated novel Super-Cannes, easily amongst his best, J.G. Ballard explored the psychological, sexual, and even epidemiological implications of landscape design. This is “the secret life of the business park,” Ballard writes.
At one point the book’s narrator is speaking with the corporate director of Eden-Olympia, a planned live/work community in [...]

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Uncool things from uncool people

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Courtesy of James Holden
So I’ve read through the leaked ICRC report on “extraordinary rendition” and “enhanced interrogation techniques”, or, to those of us who aren’t douchebag politicians, kidnapping and torture.  And I am disgusted.
It wasn’t just torture.
These sound like they were experiments.
Remember hearing about those Nazi doctors who would put people and vacuum chambers and [...]

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Nocturne in E flat major

Saturday, December 13, 2008

It’s three in the morning (not exactly 4 am, but the metaphor holds true here). I should be working on graduate applications (due in two days), but I can’t focus.  I passed out this afternoon before I could make a second pot of coffee and ended up napping for about 8 hours (my roommate must [...]

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