urban hysteria and the carnivalesque

Everything has to end some time, even flagrant exhibitionism
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This journal is inactive as of 2008. Old content is now friends-only. Because I started this thing when I was like 14, so imagine.

distributed identity
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So I forgot to mention that I have a semi-professional blog. And a tumblr, and I'm actually using my twitter now.

assuaging guilt
[info]minimalism
So, I haven't actually written anything of substance here for so long, so I'll link to something I wrote in someone else's blog: spy stories.
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conditional perfect: the imperfect past
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In procrastinating from writing the term paper of epic suck, I've been playing around with Many-Eyes, a totally incredible visualization site/program spawned at the Media Lab.

Of course, the first thing I did was upload a bunch of Proust. Here's Du côté de Guermantes in a word tree, with the term "aurait" (the auxiliary verb for the conditional perfect/past conditional tense.)






Is that not beautiful? Everyone should go play around with the site -- you can all sorts of data and visualize it in many different, wonderful ways.

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