January 2009
45 posts
牛博國際 →
[BBC] Paris artists vie with false imports →
…And now they say their livelihoods are at risk because many of the souvenir shops in the area are selling cheap, mass-produced paintings from China and Eastern Europe.
“我很擔心這種新愛國主義，外國媒體對中國稍有微詞，那些愛國者們便在網上群起而攻之。問題是這些年輕人沒有經歷過貧窮，吃大鍋飯的時代；缺乏管束，涉及很少，閱歷有限。這些...”
– 余華 ( via 不許聯想 )
[Wired] Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great... →
Fallout 3 depressed the crap out of me, but I’m not sure this is a bad thing. Indeed, it’s probably a great thing. The best works of tragedy seek to inspire that punched-in-the-gut feeling. I don’t read George Orwell’s 1984 or Cormac McCarthy’s The Road — or view Goya’s The Disasters of War — so that I can feel warm and fuzzy. The point is to...
[apple4us] 思考者、藝術家、異端及麥金塔 →
Watch25 years ago…
Flirting with Stalin
( image © Prospect )
推薦閱讀: «被篡改的記憶»
對於斯大林年代的控訴﹐在很大程度上仍集中於「受難者」的記憶﹐卻對罪行本身缺乏更深入的追究。斯大林年代的特徵之一是國家暴力的濫用﹐但是對應國家力量的懷疑﹐並沒有隨著斯大林的覆滅或是蘇聯的解體﹐而進行更深入的探討。……如果在這一歷史性的年份﹐我們依舊混淆記憶﹐毛澤東仍只是作為這個國家的奠基者﹐而我們對他和他統治的世代的悲劇性﹐沒有真切和痛苦的探索的話﹐我們就掉入同樣的輕薄和愚蠢。
[槽邊往事] 大汗之夜 →
美國有色人種得到了一個黑皮膚的總統，很高興。美國少數民族裔得到了一個非洲裔總統，很高興。我也很高興，因為我依然保有批評美國總統的神聖權利。
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write;...”
– Alvin Toffler
[Bruce Schneier] "The Cost of Fearing Strangers" →
Remember, if it’s in the news don’t worry about it. The very definition of news is “something that almost never happens.” When something is so common that it’s no longer news—car crashes, domestic violence—that’s when you should worry about it.
[The Independent] Smile! Polaroid is saved →
If all goes to plan, the Polaroid factory in Enschede, Amsterdam, will soon be making film again thanks to its new owner, an eccentric Austrian artist and businessman named Florian Kaps.
“You have to kind of surrender yourself to the art, which is bigger than you are...”
– Alan Moore
[ArsTechnica] For Steve Jobs, we expect One More... →
Don’t write off Steve Jobs yet. You can bet there will be One More Thing. Hopefully, many of them.
[熊培雲] 世界離獨裁只有五天～～關于『浪潮』 →
“浪潮”本是個中性詞，當它成為一種暴力，便成了吞噬一切的惡。
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“牛博被關掉了，目前老羅和黃斌的情緒很穩定。”
– 羅永浩 ( via 福禄祯祥 )
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Spotify →
A very cool P2P-based music service.
“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be...”
– Robert Benchley
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[1416教室] 紐約觀展記：William Eggleston →
惠特尼此時舉辦這個展覽的重要意義在於，在當下，廉價的電子産品，便捷的技術操作，活躍的互聯網文化，使得Eggleston當年少部分人才能享受的這種攝影的民主，終于變成大衆的民主——在這種語境下回顧Eggleston將有一種找到源頭的驚喜和相視一笑的默契。
WatchApple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
( via PDNPulse ;-)
( to PRC 訪客：TheOnion 或被 GFW 中，請自行翻墻 )
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Johnny & Kate
Photo taken by Annie Leibovitz, 1994. She said about the shoot:
That one was easy to do! Hotel room in New York, I was getting a shoot with him, she was there with us and I told her, What about a pic of you and him together? And she said, Yes. That is the image of passion, they were very, very in love, really.
A perfect couple.
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman
