she is king

"[N]umbers (and all mathematical ideas, for that matter) have lives of their own. We can’t control them. Even though they exist in our minds, once we decide what we mean by them we have no say in how they behave. They obey certain laws and have certain properties, personalities, and ways of combining with one another, and there’s nothing we can do about it except watch and try to understand. In that sense they are eerily reminiscent of atoms and stars, the things of this world, which are likewise subject to laws beyond our control … except that those things exist outside our heads."

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Steven Strogatz, 2010

A section from the 1st of a 15-part New York Times series, The Elements of Math: Beginning with a column on why numbers are helpful, he goes on to investigate topics including negative numbers, calculus and group theory, finishing with the mysteries of infinity.

(via Good)

there are 3 writers that I have book crushes on even though I haven’t read them: ~~Charles Bukowski~~, Sheila Heti, & Jorges Luis Borges. I’ve read around them. I know bits about them. But I’m somewhere between saving them and a little afraid to read them in case they’re not all I’ve hoped. But they will be. So I’m slowly working my way through the list. 1 down, 2 to go.

Watch this movie about JLB. he’s super. In fact, imma go to BMV today. Target titles: the Labyrinth & Imaginary Beings.

Similarly, there’s an excellent Bukowski movie called Born Into This. It’s on netflix if you’ve got it.

higher ground, (by) said the king.

fun fact: I’ve started up a small side project for myself called said the king. so far the brand encompasses 2 shelves - 1 big, 1 small. It’s been designed by, and will be manufactured/shipped/plusplusplus through, ideacious.

We’re 8 early orders away from starting the first manufacturing run of shelves! *and* because it’s going through ideacious, if you order early you’ll earn revenue from every shelf sold, from the 2nd run on, for the next 10 years. awesome. I know.

so for example: next preorder (position 8) earns $5,011 every 100 units

available in 3 types of sustainable wood | made & designed in Cana

$2350 | buy one on ideacious

questions? ask karen [at] saidtheking.com

i love to see form and function come together so thoughtfully

teachingliteracy:

bookrest lamp.

(via teachingliteracy, libraryland)

Once I get this built, I’m never coming out.

teachingliteracy:

I want to stay here all day and read.
relright:

celila:thechocolatebrigade:lsd-420:anmpr:(via omeletteedufromage)

I read this on the streetcar this morning and it’s even more striking in context:

“… it didn’t feel like the last time, I’d kissed Anna for the last time, seen my parent for the last time, spoken for the last time, why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future…” -Thomas Schell (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Foer, pg 281)

I’m strangely drawn to this magazine. It’s ME magazine! Check it out:

“KAREN is more interested in the weather than what to wear, sell by dates than celebrity… In KAREN magazine fashion is a T-shirt about the emotional world of the potato and beauty is goose pimples on the beach…”

great snippet on data harvesting. As we move from actual books to reading from devices, there’s a ton a data captured. This article gives a few great ideas on how Amazon could use this data to create various types of book lists.

me too pls.

lioraipsum:

can you say impulse purchase? thank goodness it’s payday!

woodswoodswoods:

Do you own a copy of this? If you don’t, you should order one sharpish, because there’s less than 30 copies left (out of 1000! holy crap!) and I think you’d like it.

Who doesn’t love being read to? Kraft and Penguin team up to bring you “a more seductive coffee break”. In this one Dominc West reads from High Fidelity. Here’s what Work Club says about their project:

Kraft’s Carte Noire is a premium coffee brand, targeted at 30-45 year old women, whose coffee breaks are precious…

So we put together two things that this audience embrace;
1)seductive men and 2) reading.

It’s adult Jackanory featuring three desirable male actors; Dominic West (The Wire), Greg Wise (Cranford) and Dan Stevens (Sense and Sensibility) – reading love scenes from Penguin novels, both classic and modern.

I’m in love with flash fiction right now. Plus Andrew Kaufman is awesome as you might remember from All my friends are superheros a while back. His new book looks awesome too.

I’m in love with flash fiction right now. Plus Andrew Kaufman is awesome as you might remember from All my friends are superheros a while back. His new book looks awesome too.