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READIN
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
🦋 Stroszek: a review
I found a really well-written, informative review of Stroszek at Pajiba's Twisted Masterpieces. Recommended. Also, in comments thereto, the information that Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis killed himself after watching this film.
posted morning of Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 ➳ More posts about Stroszek ➳ More posts about Werner Herzog ➳ More posts about The Movies
Michael Hudson compares the Paulson bailout proposal to the New Yazoo land scandal, the "perfect combination of financial and real estate fraud on a magnitude that helped establish some of Americaâ??s great founding fortunes."
Paul Krugman walks through the reasons for our current economic troubles -- he believes the administration's bailout proposal is a bad idea, and a potentially dangerous one.