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We Marched for Love and Pride

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Francois Lachance

For a Friend… “Somewhere else, someone else is crying too / Another man has lost a friend, I bet he feels the way I do” The Communards – For A Friend (Official Video) Songwriters: James Somerville / Richard Coles And … Continue reading →

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Incandescent Feline

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Robert Graves in the introductory note to his On English Poetry Being an Irregular Approach to the Psychology of This art, from Evidence Mainly Subjective concludes with the observation “that when putting cat among pigeons it is always advisable to … Continue reading →

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Beginner’s Mind

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Shoshin Particularly for the novice practitioner, good data modelling is something to be done iteratively, interrogating and refining the model through a dialogue with both the source material and the operational context of tools. Julia Flanders and Fotis Jannidis “Data … Continue reading →

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More Intellectual Virtues

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Black Trillium Marion Zimmer Bradely, Julian May, Andre Norton The quest both individual and collective is to achieve balance. It is a psychological quest. The key is knowledge: its possession and disposition. “And when you have this knowledge, what do … Continue reading →

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Mould, Canalize, Direct

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Aldous Huxley Words and Their Meanings (Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1940) Courtesy of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto From the book flap on the dustcover: This is the first publication of a new work by … Continue reading →

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Follow the Brush, Guide the Reading of Numberous

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Thomas J. Harper Afterward to Jun’ichirō Tanizaki In Praise of Shadows One of the oldest and most deeply ingrained of Japanese attitudes to literary style holds that too obvious a structure is contrivance, that too orderly an exposition falsifies the … Continue reading →

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Externalities, More Than

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Francois Lachance

In the series The FUTURE of WORK “Dollars in the Margins” [intro blurb – a quotation from the article] The $15 Minimum Wage Doesn’t Just Improve Lives. It Saves Them. A living wage is an antidepressant. It is a sleep … Continue reading →

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Fantastic Cells

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Library catalogue subject headings for Fantastic Voyage: Brain–Diseases–Diagnosis–United States–Drama. Leucocytes–Drama. Medicine–Specialties and specialists–United States–Drama. Scientists–United States–Drama. I believe and others have noted that Dr. Who “The Invisible Enemy” is indebted to the Fantastic Voyage. And so for day 2411 20.07.2013

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Desideratum

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Scott Ferguson Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care Critical theory must, therefore, loosen its historical attachments to power’s shifting vicissitudes and risk the embarrassments of care’s apparent guilelessness. Without this affective labor, its conceptual tools remain … Continue reading →

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Onomastic Fox

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Francois Lachance

“By Way of Introduction’ in which a surprising appearance puts the reader off track, given it is a cookbook that is being read: Chester County — that glorious rolling countryside in Eastern Pennsylvania whose hills and valleys, woodlands and streams … Continue reading →

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