Some pictures of Peanuts characters made to look like Marvel supheroes. Lucy as She-Hulk is just perfect. [via dethroner]
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
It looks like DC is about to make a serious move to attract teen females to graphic novels. DC does a generally good job with their mainstream comics, but I can only read superheroes for so long. I’m curious to see what they come up with.
≡Ghost World (review: 3/5)
Thursday, November 30, 2006
I wonder what if there is a world that equates to a small-town version of a pastorale? Suburbanale? Anyway, in Ghost World Daniel Clowes presents a few days in the life of two teenage girls as they piss away a small-town summer. The first time I tried to read this, I was bored to tears. […]
≡No, you may not see my receipt
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
I thought it was funny to see this little essay on businesses that check receipts at the exit doors. I had a similar experience a while back. Honestly, I was kind of hoping I’d run into one of these situations so I could make a valiant little stand for consumers throughout the nation. This was […]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
I was at work today in the library and saw the most wonderful thing. Over in the magazine section, there was an old guy reading. Grey hair, wrinkles, hunched in his chair. Maybe in his 60s-70s. He even had a walker to help him get around.
So what do you think he’s reading? National Geographic? Time? […]
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Photos from an incredible little selection of pop-up books for children.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Rebecca Blood shares the hot tip from Dangerous Meta, that Encyclopedia Brittanica has a weblog. This could be really cool.
≡Noise (review: 1.5/5)
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
I love the jacket design for Noise, so I really had high hopes for this one. I really wanted another cool pop science book like Chaos or Linked, one that would take a fringe science and make it sparkle. Now, don’t get me wrong. There’s a ton of information here (a full 40% of the […]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
A guy who thinks a lot about traffic has come up with experiments and solutions for traffic waves and jams… “It’s nonlinear soliton physics.” The basic idea is to leave a little space to ‘absorb’ the slowdowns, instead perpetuating them by joining the crowds of hard-brakers and quick-accelerators. I think my own experience agrees with […]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
I just got a sweet deal on an iMac 24. And the shipping wait is killing me.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The AV Club has a very good interview with Chuck Klosterman, cultural critic and author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, among other things:
People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they’re positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I’ve always realized that criticism […]
≡In the Shadow of No Towers (review 2.5/5)
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
I can’t remember the last time I read a book less than 50 pages–In the Shadow of No Towers weighs in at 42 huge, colorful spreads. Art Spiegelman’s recent book brings together a collection of broadsheets illustrated in the years following 9/11, and also shares the notable cover from the September 23, 2001 issue of […]
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
This Flickr group “collects” photos of signs that “misuse” quotation marks.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Here’s a stop-motion movie where each frame is a photo of a whiteboard illustration. I love how those shapes morph around, and there’s some cool “interaction” with the ink.
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Roger Federer is so completely amazing. David Foster Wallace writes about Federer as Religious Experience.
≡The Ghost Map (review: 4/5)
Monday, November 27, 2006
Here we have the tale of the 1854 cholera outbreak in London. A silent killer is out there, generally freaking people out. Microbiology has yet to exist, so it’s a story of man versus mystery. Two men actually, who start out independently and eventually come to know and respect each other. And it’s a story […]
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Sunday, November 26, 2006
10 Minute Mail is a service that gives you a temporary e-mail address. Could come in handy for those pesky online newspaper registrations or other confirmation protocols, but I wonder if it will just get blacklisted one day? BugMeNot offers another reliable way to get around those registration walls.
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Saturday, November 25, 2006
Nintendo’s latest videogame console, the Wii, is giving sedentary gamers some exercise with its motion-control gameplay.
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Friday, November 24, 2006
I like the cover art by Chris Ware on the latest issues of the New Yorker.
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Friday, November 24, 2006
Merlin Mann has a little series of videos where he plays the guy who is always on his phone. Favorite excerpts:
“It was actually kind of my idea so I’m kind of into it. You wish you had it this good!”
“You know what I don’t need today? The psychedelic mind-waffle.”
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Thursday, November 23, 2006
This set of typography lessons is wonderful. I have much to learn. There are so many cool links and tutorials in there. Well worth the time of anyone who cares about art and words and reading and writing and the nuances of presentation.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Via Dooce, a video of a baby laughing. I’m sure you will, too. I love that wheezy cackle. These 4 babies are also great… if just a little creepy in a robot/clone sort of way.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
I like this comic-form introduction to lockpicking. Seems like a great media for something so visual, but somewhat complex.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Wired has a new piece about the recent lonelygirl15 video phenomenon. I like the embedded video within the article. I wish more journalists would embrace the contextual possibilities of the web like that.
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
And now the final chapter of the Productive Talks between Merlin Mann and David Allen. This one was focused on what was missing from the original publication of Getting Things Done, and where the system might head in the future.
≡Weekend recap
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
I got back from Virginia this afternoon. There are few things that can make you appreciate stillness like driving 1400 miles. Funny thing about driving solo: you know you’re getting bored when you start talking to yourself. And you know it’s getting even worse when you stop talking to yourself. But it was a pleasant […]
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
New York Inquirer interviews Keith Gessen of the literary magazine n+1, sometimes rival to McSweeney’s. I like his comments on book reviews:
One of the few rules we have for book reviews is that they can’t be about dead authors. It’s very easy to say I love Tolstoy or Flaubert or whoever, and my contemporaries […]
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Monday, November 20, 2006
The top articles from the past 50 years of The New Scientist. Titles like these are so funny in hindsight:
Launch of Sputnik 1: How soon to the moon?
How can Man improve Man?
Is Pluto no bigger than the moon?
Is evolution a traveller from outer space?
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
The latest issue of Discover magazine highlights the 25 Greatest Science Books of All Time. Darwin snags the top 2 with The Voyage of the Beagle and The Origin of Species, with Newton’s Principia Mathematica following in a close third.
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
There are a several different flavors of Kettle Chips in beta right now. Yes, beta. You, too, can be one of the illustrious taste-testers for a mere $20. [via df]
≡Time for a road trip!
Saturday, November 18, 2006
This weekend I’m heading up to Old Dominion for a wedding in the Waynesboro/ Staunton area. After that I’ll be cruising south to see some friends in Raleigh on the way home. I’ll try to squeeze in some time to meet my NaBloPoMo quota, and I’ll be back to full-steam blogging sometime on Tuesday night.
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Friday, November 17, 2006
A lucid bit from Heather Armstrong’s recent trip to New York City: “I have finally cleared off the 4 gigs of memory cards I filled taking pictures in New York, and sadly more than half of them are blurry because every time I went to take a photo I kept thinking MUST KEEP MOVING. OR […]
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Friday, November 17, 2006
Greg Sandow highlights some interesting ideas to bring young audiences to classical music performances.
You don’t need to shorten, sugarcoat, or simplify the classical pieces. The people hear them just as easily as they hear the pop stuff. And, maybe best of all, it takes classical music off its pedestal, and makes it nothing more (but […]
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Friday, November 17, 2006
Here’s a weekly rogues gallery for the world’s worst spammers. And here are the top 200 operations, accounting for about 4 of every 5 spam e-mails you get. “Spam gang.” That is so… weird. [via jb]
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Thursday, November 16, 2006
David von Drehle writes that our obsession with physical appearance may not be so shallow. It’s a nice essay on the (eternal) issues of society, beauty, and self-image:
Critics sometimes refer longingly to earlier times, when Rubensesque nudes and Marilyn Monroe bombshells rang the beauty bell without starving themselves. When I really studied those earlier pictures, […]
≡“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman (review: 2.5/5)
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Back in the 60s, Harlan Ellison wrote this story in one 6-hour session. That original draft became the final published document, almost entirely unchanged, and went on to earn both the Hugo and the Nebula award for short stories. So this one has street cred. Fast-forward to modern times, the oversized illustrated version of this […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The 2006 National Book Awards have been announced. Only Revolutions was one of the fiction finalists. I started it just a few days ago, and think I’m starting to get it.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Video of a guy who got shut down by the cops for giving away free hugs. I love this sort of ad hoc community building.
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