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Monthly Archives: July 2007
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Photos of abandoned asylums. These in particular were from the Kirkbride era of hospital design, to go along with rehabilitative theories of moral treatment.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Paris Review has been popular for years for its interviews with writers, focusing more on the authors’ methods and craft, rather than their products. The Paris Review Interviews, Volume I collects 16 of those interviews over the last half-century, a selection of novelists, poets, screenwriters, and even an editor. One of the unique aspects […]
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Thing Quarterly: “Each year four artists, writers, filmmakers or musicians are invited to create a household object that somehow incorporates text. Every three months a new object will be hand wrapped in brown paper and string by the editors and mailed to subscribers.”[via jb]
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Monday, July 30, 2007
I don’t read all that many short stories or claim to be a huge fan of the form… but If I Vanished is one of the best I’ve read in a couple years. I need to find some more writing by this Stuart Dybek guy.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
“Oaxaca. Filming a street demonstration during the teachers’ strike down there. Twice in the chest. Never made it to the hospital. He filmed his own assassination.” The print version of the article in VQR also features illustrations from Peter Kuper’s Oaxaca Sketchbook.
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Mises University is happening this week at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Tune in to the webcasts for some of the best economics learnin’ you’ll find anywhere.
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
New York Magazine has a good profile of economist Tyler Cowen and his new book, Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist.
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Time may not exist. What will they think of next? It’s a really cool article. I’m always glad to hear of interesting theoretical physics outside of stri-*yawn* string theory.
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Your spreadsheet has been attacked. Modern office life can be a little like The Oregon Trail.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
The enterprising folks at Art House Co-op have launched The Sketchbook Project. Get a sketchbook, fill it up, send it back, and those of us in Atlanta in October can stop by and flip through them all. Proceeds are for a damn good cause, too.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
I love this taxonomy of logical fallacies. Learn those, and you’ll be well on your way to… something. Probably something good. [via tim walker]
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Four filmmakers are traveling the world in search of pick-up soccer/football games, aiming to produce a documentary.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Walk Score rates where you live based on how easy it is to walk to what you need. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to take the presence of sidewalks into account, but it’s still interesting.
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
A video of Merlin Mann talking to Google employees about Inbox Zero, e-mail management philosophy and technique. “Before you get good, you have to stop sucking.” For the past two weeks, I’ve gone to bed with an empty inbox. It feels great. And now that I’ve got a good Seinfeld streak going (thx, Austin), I […]
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Lately there have been a couple good interviews with William Gibson in anticipation of his book, Spook Country. From his talk with the College Crier:
One of the assumptions that I had was that science fiction is necessarily always about the day in which it was written. And that was my conviction from having read a […]
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Low-res pictures of fine jewelry distilled down to their fundamental brilliance, made into custom printed leather accessories: pixelated jewelry. [via userslib]
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
I was browsing through the Library of Congress website and came upon some cool posters from the Works Progress Administration. From that, I put together a little collection of library propaganda, lovely pro-literacy silkscreens and lithographs from our government.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Recent Flickr groups I like: Tea Sketches is tea stains + illustration, and Items We Carry is what people bring along in their pockets. Here’s what I carry.
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Holy smokes, I forgot my anniversary. It was about a year and a week ago that I offered the Web my first post. Here’s to many more.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Mark Hurst just published a book to get you back on track: Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload. Could be a good one.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Here’s 1500 or so prisoners dancing to Michael Jackson’s Thriller. I love it. [via thought bucket]
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Plates from George Catlin’s 1844 North American Indian Portfolio. And I’m a sucker for celestial atlases, like Johann Rost’s 1723 Atlas Portatilis Coelestis—note the fold-out pages for color illustrations. The Linda Hall Library has a number of other cool digital collections.
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Monday, July 23, 2007
Janice Harayda pulled a very interesting quote from poet Philip Larkin—he isn’t a big fan of poetry readings. The quote comes from an old interview in the Paris Review. I just finished the anthology Paris Review Interviews, Volume I, by the way. Very, very good reading. [via bookslut]
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
A simple infographic about Snape’s cultural/emotional heritage. [via rebecca blood]
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Sean calls it Pötterdämmerung. Just for that, Sean, I promise I’ll get around to finishing book #3.
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Friday, July 20, 2007
A Jane Austen enthusiast ripped a few chapters from her books, changed the names, and submitted them to publishers. [via Mises]
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
I like Andy Rutledge’s little essay on quiet structure: “Quiet structure is achieved when you de–emphasize the structural elements; the containing boxes, structural lines, bullets, structural color elements, etc… and bring a rhythmical consistency to the layout.” A good grid is a powerful thing.
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
If you cut up a large diamond into little bits, it will entirely lose the value it had as a whole; and an army divided up into small bodies of soldiers, loses all its strength. So a great intellect sinks to the level of an ordinary one, as soon as it is interrupted and disturbed, […]
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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Kind of a brain-stretching discussion about PhDs in Design and design research & scholarship. Lots of good feedback in the comments.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
What if… Earth’s topography was reversed so that continents were oceans and the oceans were continents? Pretty cool. I’m trying to imagine the societies that would spring up and the new planetary politics.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
There’s an interesting series on homosexuality in comics in one, two, three parts so far. The fourth and final part is on the way here.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Whither our literary arbiters? On NPR, a story about how newspapers are dedicating less space for book reviews than in the past. Goes along with the general decline in newsprint circulation & advertising dollars.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
I had a chance to see the big Richard Serra exhibition at the MoMA this summer. The New Yorker has a gushing review of the show and the sculptor’s career.
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