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Possibly my single favorite—most memorable, at the very least—read in 2011 was a short fiction by James Bridle from the POV of a man in a transcription shop.

And as the bell of this year begins its toll, Bridle slides an xmas gift down the rss chute: an ekphrasis of the Met’s three (not-so-great) Caravaggios.

I’m sincerely glad he was able to visit our fair city this fall and exhume its treasures.

being the twentyfifth of december, on which some new devices are held in questioning hands. these apps are my favorites.

what I use most

• Readmill (ebook reader and highlighting community)
• Paper by FiftyThree (sketching and drawing)
• Kindle (buy ebooks from the giant)
• Facebook
• Pocket (save web pages to read later)
• Dropbox (sign up)
• 1Password* (secure password manager)*
• For writing, I’m into iA Writer

depending on what you already use

• Tweetbot (best twitter app by far)
• Netflix
• WordPress (if you have WP sites)
• Reeder (rss reader)

to fill the time

• The Silent History (a serial novel in an app)
• Radiolab* (beautiful app of science stories)*
• WFMU (weird good radio)
• Digg (basically the news)
• Tumblr
• GoodReader (for PDFs)
• iGammon (backgammon)
• Svpply & Want & eBay