Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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8 years ago

in a way unlikely ever to be undone

[...] 'Education,' Chief Justice Warren wrote in Brown

... is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is the principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him adjust to his environment. In these days…

—p.14 Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present by Mark Costello
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8 years ago

the costliest real estate in Boston

[...] In Gary's neighborhood, property values are actually falling.

In another sense, of course, the streets surrounding RJam's soundproof studio are the costliest real estate in Boston. At least two young men died as downpayments within a week of today's recording session. [...]

—p.7 by Mark Costello
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8 years ago

I'm black and I'm proud

Say it loud
I'm black and I'm proud
Say it loud
I'm black and I'm proud!

Except that halfway through the infectious funk, the crew-cuts realize what they're saying: Jesus christ, 'I'm proud to be black' fer chrissakes, like when you're in the porno store, you know, and you get lost…

—p.4 by Mark Costello
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8 years ago

we choose the future we want to live in

I'm an optimist. I think our social contracts are stronger than our technology. They're the strongest bonds we have. We don't aim telescopes through each others' windows, because only creeps do that.

But we need to reclaim the right to record our own lives as they proceed. We need to reverse dec…

—p.172 Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future Snitchtown (170) by Cory Doctorow
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8 years ago

the permission that can never be had

[...] Perhaps the point is to titillate us with
the delicious irony of celebrating copyright infringement while
simultaneously taking the view that even the NO
PHOTOGRAPHY sign is a form of property, not to be reproduced
without the permission that can never be had.

—p.145 Warhol is Turning in His Grave (144) by Cory Doctorow