This week's penguin: Quilting - it's not for the faint-hearted.
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One of my professors talked about how using a certain pen that you love can help with creativity. The way I just said it, it seems stupid, but it does have some merit. I haven't been able to find a single pen I really like until yesterday. I was sitting in class, sun shining through a window right onto my desk. I had a Bic Cristal pen in my hand and realized when I twisted the pen, it had a disco ball effect. It was awesome! I found the perfect pen for me. Aside from the awesome prismation, it writes very well, doesn't break easily (a plus for me), and a pack of ten only costs a dollar!
One of my favorite movie effects, when Dick Van Dyke makes his pants penguin-y in Mary Poppins:
Does anybody actually keep a diary with the intent for it to never be read?
Classical music, when understood, is a great source of entertainment. I just bought Handel's Messiah (2 Disc) performed by the London Philharmonic for like $3 on Amazon MP3. I'm really glad I took a music appreciation class this semester.
The day of the week doesn't matter to me because I'm just as busy on weekends.
I think I'm going to be getting two pet turtles (ones that swim) soon. They're a big responsibility though. They live fifty years. I'll get two so they don't have to be lonely.
I better get to bed.
You should make a hand-turkey for Thanksgiving. I made one. I'll post a picture soon! GLITTER!!!
Here Comes Clay Shirky with Everybody
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This evening I've been listening to Clay Shirky, on Penguin podcasts, talk about the sociological aspects of the internet. Clay Shirky is the author of 'Here Comes Everybody' and a lecturer at NYU.
The podcast features Shirky talking about large group collaborations and co-ordination on the internet especially for addressing global issues, and the future of online media. If you're curious and want to understand more about how we, as a society, use the internet and what emerging patterns are laying a path for the future of the web then Clay Shirky is not only a brilliant thinker on the topic but also a concise and elequent speaker. Although the talk dates from when 'Here Comes Everybody' was first released, in 2008, much of what he discusses is still relevant now.
Penguin podcasts are a great resource for hearing other authors speak on equally interesting works of both non-fiction and fiction.
Link to Podcast:
Penguin Podcasts: Clay Shirky Talk
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Canabalt
Det er så fedt når der en gang i mellem dukker et spil op som bare sætter sig fast, og som man bare liiige skal se om man ikke kan gøre lidt bedre. Og igen... og igen... og igen...
For et par år siden var det penguin.
Denne gang er det Canabalt.
Løb for helvede!
Penguin's Great Ideas Series
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Love these repackaged classics from Penguin. Designs by David Pearson, Phil Baines, Catherine Dixon and Alistair Hall
Stuff I want for my birthday #2
Synopsis
How did George Eliot's love life affect her prose? Why did Kafka write at three in the morning? In what ways is Barack Obama like Eliza Doolittle? Can you be over-dressed for the Oscars? What is Italian Feminism? If Roland Barthes killed the Author, can Nabokov revive him? What does 'soulful' mean? Is Date Movie the worst film ever made?
Split into five sections - 'Reading', 'Being', 'Seeing', 'Feeling' and 'Remembering' - Changing My Mind finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material both personal and cultural. This engaging collection of essays - some published here for the first time - reveals Smith as a passionate and precise essayist, equally at home in the world of great books and bad movies, family and philosophy, British comedians and Italian divas. Whether writing of Obama, Katherine Hepburn, Kafka, Anna Magnani or David Foster Wallace, she brings a practitioner's care to the art of criticism, with a style as sympathetic as it is insightful.
Changing My Mind is journalism at its most expansive, intelligent and funny - a gift to readers and writers both. Within its covers an essay is more than a column of opinions: it's a space in which to think freely.
via penguin.co.uk
Zadie Smith, my most favourite writer in the world, hasn't written much fiction lately. But she is publishing Changing My Mind, a collection of essays which is the next best thing, a week after my birthday!
Seeing as for the least three birthdays and Christmases I've asked for something written by Smith, it seems a shame to stop now.
