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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

— John Stuart Mill (view other epigraphs)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

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🦋 Athena

photo: Brandon Cole

...to me, Athenaâ€™s suckers felt like an alienâ€™s kissâ€”at once a probe and a caress. Although an octopus can taste with all of its skin, in the suckers both taste and touch are exquisitely developed. Athena was tasting me and feeling me at once, knowing my skin, and possibly the blood and bone beneath, in a way I could never fathom.
-- Sy Montgomery meets and befriends a cephalopod.

Montgomery will be leading a live discussion of octopus intelligence on next Tuesday, November 16, at 7pm Eastern. Register at Orion magazine if you would like to participate.

posted evening of Sunday, November 6th, 2011

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What's of interest:

➪	David Wallace-Wells interviews William Gibson for the Paris Review. "...Of course, we might be Victorians, too." (Thanks for the link, Ramsey!)
➪	David Futrelle of Man Boobz finds some sketchy men's-rights activists claiming a historical icon as one of their own; his response is illustrated with some very intriguing source material. (Thanks for the link, Lindsay!)
➪	Now in stores, volume 4 of Glass Flesh. Or, well, not in stores; but at the Glass Hotel.

(Other links of interest at my Google+ page. It's recommend ed!)

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