http://linebreaks.com Just another weblog Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:49:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "My formula for human greatness is amor fati: that one wants to have nothing different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely to bear the necessary, still less to conceal it--all idealism is mendaciousness before the necessary--but to love it." - Nietzsche http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/09/14/not-merely-to-bear-the-necessary/ George Orwell's diary is being posted as a series blog entries. The Orwell Prize is delighted to announce that, to mark the 70th anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written, allowing you to follow Orwell’s recuperation in ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/08/19/george-orwells-diary-entries-70-years-to-the-days/ US Driving in May drops 3.7%: The 9.6 billion miles less traveled was the biggest drop ever for any May, when traffic usually increases due to the Memorial Day holiday and the beginning of summer vacations. During the first five months of the year, highway travel was down 29.8 billion miles, or ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/07/28/americans-are-driving-less/ ...the most prolific documentarists are no longer to be found in film schools and TV stations. In some European and American cities, every street corner is under constant surveillance using recording closed-circuit TV (CCTV) cameras. Such cameras are typically operated by local government, police, private security firms, large corporations and ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/05/13/the-documented-activity-of-the-protagonist/ Containing practical advice, oil paintings, cartoons depicting primitive percussion-drilled wells, and - my favourite - a chapter on "Scoundrels, and Defense therefrom," A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse blends survivalism and whimsy to delightful (and informative) effect. Download the imposed version for printing and folding, or the web version (both ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/05/10/so-youve-decided-to-survive-the-apocalypse/ I was asked to contribute two pieces to Mic Check, the first published anthology of Candian Spoken Word. It's out now, printed by Quattro Press. I'm honoured to join spoken poets from the one coast over there to that other one yonder, including (among many others) Barbara Adler (also of ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/05/03/mic-check-spoken-word-anthology/ Why TTC's right to strike is in our interest To riders, the TTC is a point of rare intimacy between us and city. But it's also the TTC ferrying us to jobs we hate, handing down the costs of neoliberal underfunding, peppering us with ads that belittle us, and averaging our ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/05/01/cut-the-nose-strike-the-face/ A stunning video from the wonderful Pinky Show. http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/04/30/specific-groups-of-not-less-than-15/ Thanks to everyone who came out to the slam finals on Saturday, or the Mic. Check anthology launch on Monday night. This site has grown completely out of date thanks to issues with the domain name, and problems with the blog software, so I'm going to overhaul it soon. In the ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/04/29/changes-coming/ Mayor brags about luring resource giant to “greenest” city in North America In a statement from China, Miller crowed that the announcement is a further sign that Toronto is emerging as the “world leader in mining finance.” It’s also a sign of Toronto’s split municipal personality. On the one hand, economic development ... http://linebreaks.com/blog/2008/04/24/miller-goes-mining/