confused of calcutta

I’m walkin’ down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I’m bound, I can’t tell
But goodbye’s too good a word, gal
So I’ll just say fare thee well
I ain’t sayin’ you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don’t mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don’t think twice, it’s all right
from Don’t Think Twice, It’s [...]

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Doc picked up on something I’d said earlier, and has provided a number of links to the blogger-as-thinker-and-co-creator space. Well worth a read, with some wonderfully tangential moves.
And all this brings me on to something else. Maybe I’ve got it wrong. Maybe it’s jaded people living jaded lives. But I get the feeling that many [...]

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The full quote from Marcel Duchamp is given below:
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
There is something important in what Duchamp said, something I must [...]

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Jeremy Ruston of Tiddlywiki (who used to work with me) pointed me towards this Jason Kottke post, referencing Greg Knauss as well.
Between them they go for a referential/experiential split for what I termed linkers/thinkers, and, by inference, define the stinker by leaving him out of the equation altogether. Kottke extends the simile to compare the writer/editor [...]

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You’re right, I’m way too old to claim I’m listening to Andy and the Other One. So I won’t. I just wanted the hook to write about lala. Here’s what Bill Nguyen has to say about it, verbatim from the site:
The founders of ‘la la’, John, Billy, Anselm and I are devout music fans and [...]

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Nolind Whachell, by commenting on one of my recent posts, started a slew of Searlsian-motion snowballs here; I have no idea where they’re going to end up.
You should take a look at Nolind’s site. I’ve gone ahead and linked to it.
First, Nolind reminded me of a quote from Dave Winer that I’d seen while on [...]

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If we accept that blogging is the opensourcing of ideas, then we need to expect returns from blogging that are consistent with opensource software. Let’s see how that plays out:

Opensource models are open to inspection and are consequently better designed through criticism and error and modification; opensource ideas should similarly reflect learning through conversation
Opensource models [...]

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I was lucky enough to acquire a late 18th century edition (the William Jones translation) of Shakuntala by Kalidasa. [An aside: How nice to be able to get wikipedia references for a 5th century BC work of a Sanskrit poet. Keep going, Wikipedia].
And on the bottom of the title page I found the following:
Calcutta
Printed and [...]

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The Sandi Thom story has taken a number of twists and turns. For those of you who didn’t see it first time round, here’s what I posted.
Looked like a classic internet basement-artist-made-good story. And I even mentioned her in other more recent posts, including the last one on Ian Anderson.
Then I saw the comment from [...]

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…Will the years treat us well?…
From Wond’ring Aloud Composed by Ian Anderson, performed by Jethro Tull
Doesn’t sound like the years are treating the composer, one of my favourite flautists, well. Despite the fact that I bought most of the Jethro Tull albums on vinyl, then again on CD, and sometimes yet again on 25th Anniversary [...]

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