Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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My Subscriptions > Nial Kennedy’s Weblog
So I thought I’d try something new. I’ve never done the typical blogging thing– "I saw this thing, here’s a link, here’s what I think about". The other thing is that I currently have SubscriptionBloat in my Bloglines account with 125 feeds. I care about maybe 1/2 of them. So what I’m going to do…
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Text Wrangler for PDF Text Cleanup
I manage the website for my parish, which means that I get a PDF of the weekly bulletin on Wednesday, the day that it also goes to the printer, JS Paluch. Going from PDF to posts is pretty easy, except for one thing: the carriage returns. Carriage returns are necessary in PDFs (and/or the native…
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Katherine Harris is A Complete Loon
And the NYT goes to some lengths to document that today: Senate Contender in Florida Presses On She is especially animated when the topic turns to animals, including the guide dog she plans to train starting in November. She will care for the dog for 18 months, spending nearly all her waking hours with it.…
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Quilling is Paper Filigree
I just found out about quilling. Pretty intricate stuff. Quilling is the art of creating decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper. Using simple tools, long strips of paper are tightly wound and released to form complex shapes. Also called paper filigree, it is believed the art has been practiced since ancient Egyptian and/or…
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Internet as Art
A new report from the good people at Pew puts some numbers around the general trend of the internet being a place for pop art. I think this is one of those incredibly simple statements (blogs are art, flickr is art, links are art, and compendiums of these things are derivative works) that don’t seem…