Wax Scrawls: Utopias, Fishing Monkeys and lots of Meh.

Fittingly, this post on words that come to stand for entire arguments comes from the always great Tumblr, Daily Meh.

Speaking of Daily Meh, it’s also the source for this very funny utopian version of Google News. My favourite bit is something totally minor: the entertainment section that says “Serenity sequel tops box office six weeks running”.

J.K. Rowling’s Haravard commencement speech, in which she discusses imagination in a manner akin to how Heidegger talked about poetry – i.e. that it is ‘projective saying’. [via]

What do you do when Twitter‘s down? You go to Twiddict. (get it? It’s a mix of Twitter and Addict…) For people like me, who are momentarily convinced their tweets are absolute gold – only to be saved by the fact that I can’t update – this is sure to lead to embarrassment. [via]

For the first time, scientists actually witness bacterial evolution in a lab, i.e. the development of a rare, complex trait through chance events. Pretty amazing stuff. Oh and while we’re on the science tip, here’s some news about monkeys who have figured out how to fish. No, seriously. You know it’s only a matter of time before they make guns, right?

Kevin Kelly ruins a perfectly good idea (“the communal version of genius”) by using Brian Eno’s absolutely terrible term for it, ‘Scenius‘. Bleh.

Stephen Hawking, in an affirmation that genius can come from anywhere, is, and I quote, “setting off on a hunt for Africa’s intellectual talent“. Awesome idea. Poor fucking phrasing.

Instead of taking sides in the “Clint vs. Spike” director scuffle, Salon instead ends up thinking about how they might make each other’s movies. (Also, I say 25th Hour is Lee’s best film. Anyone else?)

And finally, Blaise Alleyne (who I am seriously impressed with) has another great post, this time in response to some more Nick Carr curmudgeonliness, “Is Google is Making us Stupid?”