Month: December 2004
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Sorting Through the Shards with Sadi: The Confessional Essay
Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti, poet, essayist and frequent contributor to blogcritics, has been taking the world by storm over the last six months. Sadi has been alternating between France and New England, and her personal weblog, Tant Mieux has a certain refined European flavor and lots of Paris photos. Sadi has two, well, three separate web identities:…
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Questioning Beauty
Sadi writes a long book review essay about the nature of beauty. Questions to think about: Can a person contemplate the physical form of a woman without linking it to sexual attraction? Is sexual attraction an appropriate metaphor for discussing beauty as a philosophical concept? When one collects (jugs for example), one is aiming toward…
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Linux Flickr Uploader
Michele Campeotto has written a linux flickr uploader client. Wow!
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Pre-1923 Books to Download
Ever since I became aware of the significance of 1922 with respect to copyright, I’ve become very knowledgable about fiction right before then. U. of Penn has a nice list of what titles were hot in the decade before 1923. (Here, more books are listed by category). The links are to .txt and .html files,…