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Category: Essays (page 6)
Striped Tie RIOT
REVOLT! Elite International Schools, Orwell and Adolescent Rebellion James McGirk George Orwell’s autobiographical essay Such, Such Were the Joys (1947)…
HTMLGiant Blog post
Comments on “Bombardero,” Czar Gutierrez’s except in Issue 8 of NY Tyrant literary magazine…
The Prelude to Stuxnet
Pic via The Oil Drum, I think While reading up on the Stuxnet worm — a USB spread malicious code…
Oil Code Thickness and Concentration Values scale
GLOSSARY OF STANDARD OIL SPILL OBSERVATION TERMS OIL COLOR AND APPEARANCE TERMS: Sheen: Sheen is a very thin layer of…
Spies as Suicide Bombers
Graham Greene, an Mi6 correspondent during his days in Lagos, wrote that “espionage today is really a branch of psychological…
DDT
From Gothamist. When we had an infestation of “the brown bug,” a neighbor told me to take the 7 train…
Communities and Contempt
A compelling takeaway I didn’t include in my post about Richard Nash‘s speech was his emphasis on how writers crave…
In The Red Room – Paul Bowles (re-re-reading experiment)
Here’s a link to In the Red Room if you feel like reading along…. First gloss: story of a man…
My Muse
And of course, on the left, my (real life, very red) muse: Thanks to Models.com and V Magazine for the…