midnight in the old woods

Nov 16

“The company Tuesday announced the Intel Reader, a device about the size of a paperback book that is designed to digitize printed text and read it aloud to users. Intel is not targeting book lovers who want to lighten their briefcases and backpacks; its audience, the company says, is people with poor eyesight, dyslexia or other conditions that make reading difficult or impossible.” Intel Offers an E-Reader, With a Difference - Digits - WSJ

Watching the H1N1 flu pandemic - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Wow, you have to look at these photos.

Oops, they weren’t logs after all: The moment a crocodile was killed after taking a foolish shortcut across a herd of hippos | Mail Online

Nov 14

Watching (via Don3rdSE)

Nov 13

via www.foundmagazine.com

“Periodically, as characters are discussing escape strategies in the foreground, you’ll see Michelangelo’s David going by on a hand truck in the distance. Or, in a shot that’s at once comic and sublime, a menagerie of zoo animals suspended from helicopters, en route to the Himalayan meetup point.” Roland Emmerich’s 2012. - By Dana Stevens - Slate Magazine

“A quick shot of the ziggurat at Chichen Itza and a 10-second voice-over about mutating neutrinos and solar flares will do the trick. Emmerich doesn’t need no stinking Mayans or hostile space aliens. He can submerge the majority of the Earth’s landmass all by himself.” Roland Emmerich’s 2012. - By Dana Stevens - Slate Magazine

Who Should Be ‘Time’ Magazine’s Last Person of the Year Ever?! | The Awl

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WSJ: People have said “Blood Meridian” is unfilmable because of the sheer darkness and violence of the story.

CM: That’s all crap. The fact that’s it’s a bleak and bloody story has nothing to do with whether or not you can put it on the screen. That’s not the issue. The issue is it would be very difficult to do and would require someone with a bountiful imagination and a lot of balls. But the payoff could be extraordinary.

” Cormac McCarthy on The Road - WSJ.com

You have to look at these images from Afghanistan. Amazing.

Captured Photo Collection » Photographer Collection: David Guttenfelder in Afghanistan Photos

midnight in the old woods

passing along bits of the world, one passage at a time