links for 2008-09-26

Political Thought and History – Cambridge University Press covet covet covet. covet. coming out in december. (tags: historyofideas philosophy jgapocock politics cambridgeuniversitypress readthis)

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links for 2008-09-25

David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon College "That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing." (tags: davidfosterwallace) Debtor's Prism – WSJ.com Margaret Atwood takes on the financial market in the [...]

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DEVONthink: evangelicalism & geekery (II)

[2] Script support part of a series One of DEVONthink’s best features is its great script support, which I love & use extensively. I’ll give three examples. One is based on John Wiegley’s GTD script, which I use to form the superstructure of the database. I have an inbox, where everything initially goes when it’s [...]

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DEVONthink: evangelicalism and geekery (I)

twelve days since my last post. alas. I can only half blame Marco Polo; the remaining culpability must be roughly distributed between (a) manic funding and fieldwork administrative tasks, which I have been less-than-enthusiastically undertaking in preparation for my uncomfortably imminent departure from England at the end of this month; (b) the lovely National Archives [...]

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