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Somehow, Cleveland has survived, with her gray banner unfurled -- the banner of Archangelsk and Detroit, of Kharkov and Liverpool -- the banner of men and women who would settle the most ignominious parts of the earth, and there, with the hubris born neither of faith nor ideology but biology and longing, bring into the world their whimpering replacements.

— Gary Shteyngart


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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.

🦋 Dynamic Mosaic

National Geographic has developed a pretty cool technology called MyShot, which (among other things?) turns photos into infinite mosaics -- the photo is "infinite" because at every level of zoom a mosaic is constructed with a static set of component images. Neat! (Though I wish you could pan, and that the zooming was smoother/bidirectional.)

A doggy mosaic below the fold. (On some browsers anyway -- let me know if it does not show up on yours.)

posted evening of Monday, May 17th, 2010
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What's of interest:

➪ At Vidas Lusófonas, Mirna Queiroz imagines the final days of Pessoa's life, illustrated with the poetry of his heteronyms. (in Portuguese at this link.)
➪ On the NY Times' op-ed page, three writers examine the new availability of domain names in exclusively non-Latin scripts.
➪ At Before You Listen, NickS and Matt are discussing Soul both mainstream and underappreciated. A fine observation from Matt:
The dissemination of music into the ‘mainstream’ isn’t some pseudo-Darwinian process where we can make optimality assumptions.
With links to lots of beautiful music.
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