Gordon Meyer Updates
Gordon Meyer updated his Tinderbox-based weblog, Usable Help, to use internal templates. Here’s how. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Feb 1, 1:37pm
Dandy
From a review of Moon People by Dale M. Courtney, which Publishers Weekly writer Gabe Habash just dubbed the worst book ever. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Feb 1, 1:08pm
Gesture-Based Interface
Eugenio Tisselli has announced that he will temporarily stop creating electronic literature. HTLit covers the news. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 31, 3:29pm
Gesture-Based Interface
Eugenio Tisselli has announced that he will temporarily stop creating electronic literature. HTLit covers the news. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 31, 3:29pm
Wintry Mixed Media
gougères ❧ vanilla pecans ❧ Linda’s retro onion dip ❧ lavender cheese thimbles
Whiter shade of ale: cream of cauliflower soup garnished with creme fraîche and smoked pistachio brittle
Frivolity and wisdom: ravioli nudi with chard and Bennington artisanal ricotta in sage butter sauce
Field work: roast leg of lamb (rubbed in roasted garlic and rosemary) with mushroom sauce ❧ bread pudding with caramelized onion and goat cheese ❧ lentils in champagne ❧ roasted shallots
Red hot and cold: cherry jelly ❧ mai tai jelly ❧ pecan pie
Clotilde’s chocolate biscuits ❧ coffee
For a change, I actually managed to make (and remembered to serve) all the planned dishes, and prep went about as well as it could. Some of the dishes took a surprising time, mostly because my stock reserves are low. The mushroom sauce... Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 30, 12:54pm
Wintry Mixed Media
gougères ❧ vanilla pecans ❧ Linda’s retro onion dip ❧ lavender cheese thimbles
Whiter shade of ale: cream of cauliflower soup garnished with creme fraîche and smoked pistachio brittle
Frivolity and wisdom: ravioli nudi with chard and Bennington artisanal ricotta in sage butter sauce
Field work: roast leg of lamb (rubbed in roasted garlic and rosemary) with mushroom sauce ❧ bread pudding with caramelized onion and goat cheese ❧ lentils in champagne ❧ roasted shallots
Red hot and cold: cherry jelly ❧ mai tai jelly ❧ pecan pie
Clotilde’s chocolate biscuits ❧ coffee
For a change, I actually managed to make (and remembered to serve) all the planned dishes, and prep went about as well as it could. Some of the dishes took a surprising time, mostly because my stock reserves are low. The mushroom sauce... Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 30, 12:54pm
Helen North
Helen North, legendary Swarthmore College classicist, aged 90. Philadelphia Inquirer. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 27, 12:22pm
Bill’s Notes
James Vornov: How Bill Gates Takes Notes. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 26, 11:44am
The Digital Lab
Nature: Going Paperless: The Digital Lab. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 26, 10:58am
Top Blogs: Mary-Kim Arnold
Nightmare Brunette is subtly elliptical. She appears to write with the complete, disarming frankness of a woman accustomed to talking about things we don’t talk about. Only gradually do you see that she’s talking about other things, too. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 20, 12:42pm
A Year Ago: Archive, Innovate, Wrap Fish
It’s been a year since my ELO postmortem. Tinderbox reminds me about major posts on their anniversary. This one might be worth another visit. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 20, 12:34pm
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The best spy novel of the century, compressed into two intense and intricate hours. You need to see this, if only for the art direction, which captures the early seventies perfectly. The detailing is wonderful: the short wave radios, the survival of 1940s telephones and 1920s signage, the wall posters, the prostitutes’s ads in the call boxes on which espionage depends. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 17, 12:31pm
Top Blogs: Nightmare Brunette
Charlotte Shane, the writer, (or, at any rate, the narrator) of the intriguing, lyrical Nightmare Brunette is a highly-paid American prostitute. She can write, and she has a lot of material to write about. This could be a salacious fantasy or a political polemic but it’s not. It’s not even primarily about sex; apparently, Shane is so costly that her clients aren’t chiefly interested in sex. And it’s not about the glamour: she does a really fine job of capturing the ennui that endless luxury breeds. Another flight to Bahrain, another long dinner with a billionaire doing his best to impress you. Ho hum. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 17, 12:12pm
Google FTW, Google Fail
It’s remarkable how good Google is, and it’s frightening how bad it is becoming. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 16, 12:27pm
Top Blogs: Hack
Now that the death of blogging is old news, let’s take a moment to look at some terrific writing in terrific weblogs. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 16, 11:40am
Takedown
John Gruber and Dan Lyons, two Apple pundits, enjoy an exemplary scrum. Fists fly, but notice that everybody will walk away with their limbs intact. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 11, 10:32am
Walker on eLit
Jill Walker weighs in on Laurie Emerson’s assertion (at MLA) that electronic literature begins in 2001. She thinks terminology is really important, but finds that “electronic literature” was actually used quite a bit in the 1990s and 1980s. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 11, 10:17am
Credibility
At HTLit, Stacey Mason discusses recent musings by science journalist Kat Austen about credibility. Austen points out that knowing your source works at Microsoft Research inspires confidence; Mason asks whether this transfers to new media and invites responses to #eLitCred. Read more...
Mark Bernstein, Jan 11, 9:36am