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links for 2008-09-26

Posted in Links on September 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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

Posted in Links on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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."
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Debtor's Prism – WSJ.com
Margaret Atwood takes on the financial market in the way she does best: [...]

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DEVONthink: evangelicalism & geekery (II)

Posted in Archive Thinking on September 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »

[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 imported and [...]

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DEVONthink: evangelicalism and geekery (I)

Posted in Archive Thinking on September 13, 2008 | 8 Comments »

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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