Neologisms
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On Hypertext Enjambment
Starting in 2002 I had a Salon Blog called, “GoogObits: Obituaries and essays augmented by Google seaches. There is a lot to learn from the dead.“ The idea was that I took the complete text of well-written, interesting obituaries from the New York Times, pasted them into my blog, and annotated the text with links.…
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Vote for TRUT over at Urban Dictionary
So a while ago I coined the word trut in an an article that I wrote for Rudy Van der Lans over at Emigre Magazine in the mid 90s. I think it’s a pretty useful word and is much more sublime than Colbert’s truthiness. Anyway, I logged the word over at Urban Dictionary to try…
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Idea: Organic Bile
Someone should start a website called Organic Bile that catches all of the women who appear on the cover of Organic Style Magazine eating at McDonalds, driving Humvess, and other off-brand things.
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Trut & Bullshit
Even though he wrote it many years ago, an essay that is getting a lot of play right now is “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt of Princeton University. First five lines: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his…