When I'm surfing the web, I enter a mode of constant distraction, where I loose my patience before I'm halfway through a twitter message. Pocket makes it possible to actually read text from the internet. Here is some content that I feel is worth transferring to my Pocket - feel free to add your own!
(If you are new to Pocket, read this (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=227477))
Midnight Eye - Visions of Japanese cinema
http://www.midnighteye.com/
Content-heavy site about Japanese Cinema - anime, J-horror, Japanese Cyberpunk, etc. The article on this site is perfect for viewing on a E-reader, since all the photographs are in black and white! (yes, the photos do show up on Kobo, even though they are way small)
Lifehacker: What Exactly Is Freedom of Speech and How Does It Apply to the Internet?
http://lifehacker.com/5953755/what-e...ask-lifehacker
7 MIN READ
Permadeath: The Best Terrible Decision You Can Make
http://www.1up.com/features/permadea...rible-decision
8 MIN READ - Why does some gamers deliberately set up their games so there's no re-load?
My 100 Worst favorite movies
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-1.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-2.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-3.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-4.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-5.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-6.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-7.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-8.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...es-part-9.html
http://www.filmwalrus.com/2012/05/my...s-part-10.html
A list of 100 movies that is to be considered mediocre or downright disasters, but which the blogger nonetheless feel are somehow masterpieces, or, at least, worth mentioning. Skimming the headlines I noticed a lot of my own favorites: CARNIVAL OF SOULS, CANNIBAL: THE MUSICAL, THE TINGLER, FEMALE CONVICT 701: SCORPION ... so I guess the rest must be worth knowing. At least for me.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...188843001.html
15 MIN READ - transfered fine, not yet read.
Wikipedia: List of Fictional Colors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_colors
3 MIN READ
Wikipedia: Plausible Deniability
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability
14 MIN READ - An interesting term coined by the secret police.
Wikipedia: Rosenhan Experiment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
10 MIN READ - In the seventies, it was tested whether psychiatric diagnosis are able to tell the sane and the insane apart.
Wikipedia: E-prime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
18 MIN READ - "a prescriptive version of the English language that excludes all forms of the verb to be."
Wikipedia: Viennese Actionism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennese_Actionism
Horrifying art movement, which is hard to imagine actually was real. I once saw SODOMA (1969), and yes, this is beyond anything else.
Fairy Tale Controversy, Part 1
http://rarestkindofbest.com/2011/06/...oversy-part-1/
8 MIN READ - the first part of the controversial tale of fairy tales.
Fairy Tale Controversy, Part 2: Comming to America
http://rarestkindofbest.com/2011/06/...ng-to-america/
6 MIN READ - Wizard of Oz, Disneys Snow White and the 1945 ban of Grimm's fairy tales.
Fairy Tale Controversy, Part 3: Modern Times
http://rarestkindofbest.com/2011/06/...odern-times-2/
12 MIN READ - Disneyfication
What It Means To Be a Soldier
https://web.archive.org/web/20080519...peak-games.asp
10 MIN READ - "Do military-themed video games create a disconnect between the real and the virtual?"
Letters from the future
http://ploum.net/tag/future/
Small fictive stories that try to imagine our nearby future, written by Ploum. Quite good non-dystopian scifi.
A Thousand Words per Page: the Wordless Novel
http://graphicallyinclined.wordpress...ordless-novel/
20 MIN READ - about 'wordless novels' and how they does or doesn't relate to graphic novels.
73 Mindblowing Terence McKenna Quotes
http://www.endalldisease.com/73-mind...ckenna-quotes/
14 MIN READ - trippy new age wisdom.
AARON H. SWARTZ ( 1986-2013 ) : The Open Information & Digital Rights Activist
http://www.5election.com/2013/01/14/...ghts-activist/
9 MIN READ - I remember reading that someone named Aaron had commited suicide. And I had no idea who he was or why it mattered.
Hellhole
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...a_fact_gawande
39 MIN READ - well-researched article about solitary confinement
Meeera recommended using Pocket for Short stories from online SF magazines in general. These might be worth hunting down.
Filmbrain mentioned these sources:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
http://www.newyorker.com
http://www.theatlantic.com
http://www.newrepublic.com
Some sources of mine:
http://www.truth-out.org
http://globalresearch.ca
http://socialistworker.org
http://www.thenation.com
(I had been talking a bit too intensively about a specific piece of litterature. The result was that I was considered a spammer and was thrown out of the forum and had this thread deleted. I had revived this thread without any references to said book - so this time around the thread might survive!
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