TimesSelect, the subscription pay-wall system that has enclosed premium content on The New York Times website for the last two years, expired at midnight last night. The gates have been torn open.
Putting aside the liberated columnists, who I look forward to reading again, the truly great thing about TimesSelect was the access it granted to [...]

Can’t believe I missed Brian Dettmer in my pompous Book Art All-Stars roundup. He may be my favorite book sculptor of the bunch because he doesn’t add anything to the books or move anything around, he just carves, recontextualizing existing content.

More at the Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery.

Who needs a cut-up machine when you can embed and combine public-domain book-page slices via Google Books?

UPDATE: “Ironics Light and Dark” above had to replaced with “ROBUST RED-BLOODED REALISM” because the 1901 poetry journal I had originally clipped from disappeared from Google’s index. One of the downsides of embeddable book clips. One of the positive [...]

I can’t stop playing with book covers. The covers, not the books, because novel-reading is for girls. More on the 92Y Blog.
Also can’t stop playing Scrabulous, the Facebook version of Scrabble (thanks, Kristen!). Because I needed another online compulsion and managing eight simultaneous Scrabble games is a great use of my time.

Stage Nudity: Barely the Beginning
London’s Switched-on “Radio Love”
Nabokov’s Complaint—The author of Lolita and Ada in a damning denunciation of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
Live Wires—A report on Liberation News Service (LNS), the Underground Press Syndicate (UPS), and Intergalactic World Brain (IWB), the three supercharged wire services that supply news to the nation’s 200 underground newspapers.
Genetic Damage [...]

For future reference. A brief obsession with Saguaro and phyllotaxis was one of the results of a Tessitura Arts Enterprise Software conference in Tucson last week.

Herman Melville:
This chart divides the ocean into districts of five degrees of latitude by five degrees of longitude; perpendicularly through each of which districts are twelve columns for the twelve months; and horizontally through each of which districts are three lines; one to show the number of days that have been spent in each month [...]

With apologies to Tom Phillips, creator of the altered Victorian novel A Humument, and book alterers everywhere, I’ve been having a laugh altering Finnegans Wake. Amazingly, there’s a very straightforward linear narrative hidden in here about blogs. Parts 2-628 and back again TK.

High-rise architecture and mini-skirts have much in common.
Image, audio courtesy of UbuWeb.
See also: Getting Rid of Animus

Jonathan Callan
Cara Barer
Nina Katchadourian
Vito Drago
Robert The
M.L. Van Nice
Doug Beube
Abelardo Morell
Mickey Smith
Barton Lidic� Beneš

Concrete poetry was modernist in a Greenbergian sense. It embraced all of (Clement) Greenberg’s ideas. The flatness of the picture plane. There was never an illusionistic space in concrete poetries. Hardcore modernist! And it’s extremely graphic. The first time I saw Netscape in January of ‘95, the first thing that really caught me was the [...]

Box.net has one of the best apps on Facebook right now, because it’s so open-ended. Their Files app stands out amid the Facebook app frenzy because it lets you easily share music, video, photos, images, documents and whatever else you can think of via one handy box.
Well, turns out it’s not just for Facebookers. [...]

Nina Katchadourian does book cover rants much better than I do. Only they’re not rants; they’re vignettes.
[via Book Patrol]

“Metadata is what you know. Data is what you’re looking for.”
-David Weinberger, author, Everything is Miscellaneous
“The Facebook guys are betting that the next fad or fun thing will be built on Facebook, not the internet.”
-James Hong, co-founder, Hot or Not
“I’ve been writing a blog comparing web 2.0 to hip-hop. The five elements of web 2.0 [...]

Saw this copy-heavy flyer on the subway today. Pullquote:
It was not a good time for the arts. We barely worked at all, and could not obtain a commission to present our songs during the five-day festival of Minerva. The atmosphere was grim and deteriorating daily. An occasional lyrical collaborator of ours, primarily a writer of [...]

Blame: Covers.

Because Wikipedia never stops enlightening me, and because Citizendium (the “elitist, anti net-cultural counter-project to Wikipedia,” as summed up by Florian Cramer) never stops boring me, I thought I’d post an annotated list of recent Wikipedia contrails. None of the following items can be found on Citizendium, and I’m not about to apply for the [...]

Hey, Sesame Street tried.
Up til now my math-blog reading has been limited to Scott Aaronson’s Shtetl-Optimized (entertaining) and BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen’s LiveJournal (always glad to help). But Leland McInnes’ The Narrow Road is the kind of math blog you can sit down and have a drink with, because the posts are long and you [...]

Joyce Images: Ulysses in postcards
Philip K. Dick Book Cover Gallery [via Total Dick-Head]
Art Fag City rounds up the New York net art galleries.
Gallery of named graphs
Soviet poster heaven
Pixelator: Battling boring light criticism.