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Current events for dummies

08-07-15 – 09:15:pm

Note (1) the “house”/“home” distinction and (2) the absence of either when foreclosure arrives.
(kudos to Calculated Risk)

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Not tonight, honey, I’m too WIRED

08-07-13 – 11:08:pm

Kevin Kelly exhumes “Unthinkable Futures” from the Summer ’93 Whole Earth Review, the result of a back-and-forth with Brian Eno. The structure (KK, BE, KK, BE) is important, because KK‘s first round was ‘pure’ fantasy, uninformed by Eno’s very different style. Here are the four gender references from Kelly’s first round:

Japan is eclipsed by the [...]

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“Matching luggage” and “residential units”

08-05-10 – 06:10:pm

“Matching luggage” means overstuffed garbage full of someone’s life, and “residential units” means someone trying to live in a self-storage space—according to Fred Reger, auctioneer and ironist. This from an NYT story about self-storage sites auctioning off the property of people who’ve defaulted on their storage rental fees. “U-Store-It’s stock is up 33 percent this [...]

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