Archive for July 2008

Manual barcodes

When the power goes out at FoodWorld, they do the barcode numbers by hand.
Image from phone camera.

Making sense of soap operas

David Foster Wallace on Television:

TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.

(Via Vinu.)

Baking kids

“Every one is kneaded of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.”

Baking minds? Why does this raise such a strong spectre?
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