April 2010
5 posts
Will Columbia-Trained, Code-Savvy Journalists... →
“Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper,...”
– Steve Jobs (via davidkaneda)
434. A suntan is earned, never bought.
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Cool Things You Can Design Yourself: Design It... →
Warning: Your reality is out of date - The Boston... →
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March 2010
11 posts
“God of War III’s main protagonists are all animated by hand, simply...”
– The Making of God of War III | DigitalFoundry
Interesting.
"It's hard to know what "selling out" means -... →
claytoncubitt:
-Banksy
“So, I dunno. I’m torn. The vile stuff is … vile. It should not see the light of...”
– Story Lab - “The Lowest Comment Denominator” (via ricestudentmedia)
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no...”
– Stephen King (via rulesformyunbornson)
431. Never gift a paperback.
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430. Don't lie to your doctor.
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“Between callous laughter on the one hand and a purposeful dilution of the word...”
– Keywords: Success and Failure « The Bygone Bureau
The School of Life : Alain de Botton on... →
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“This is the great mystery of Weinberg’s career, and it’s hard to...”
– Malcolm Gladwell.
“Looking at the crowds disrupting Town Hall meetings, I ask: How has America...”
– Roger Ebert.
February 2010
3 posts
January 2010
4 posts
“So that’s what’s sad about not eating. The loss of dining, not the...”
– Nil by mouth - Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was rendered unable to eat, drink and speak after surgery to remove cancer.
Faux Friendship - The Chronicle Review - The... →
Best thing I’ve read online in months—years, perhaps.
(via Instapaper)
December 2009
18 posts
“Even before a Nigerian with Al Qaeda links tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines...”
– Maureen Dowd in her op-ed piece for the New York Times, wondering why our airport security isn’t more technologically advanced. Memo to Maureen: when attempting to use a sci-fi writer’s name as a shorthand for a vision of the future, it’s a good idea to actually be familiar with the writer’s work....
The titles of P. K. Dick
mrgan:
Dear friends, I apologize - I think.
I have consistently mislead you, being mislead myself, to believe that P. K. Dick was the world’s greatest book-title writer. This has come up frequently in our conversations, I’m sure. I tend to obsess over the sounds of things, and titles - of books, of songs, news headlines - hold a place of special power. Just look at these words:
422. The best way to show thanks is to wear it....
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X-RAY ANALYSES OF SPEECH →
Tumblr Backup →
mrgan:
marco:
The Tumblr Backup app is ready for its first beta testing.
Unlike other publishing sites’ approach to backups, our goal was to create a useful copy of your blog’s _content_ that can be viewed on any computer, burned to a CD, or hosted as an archive of static HTML files.
This is great news. Now, to look a gift horse in the mouth for a moment, let’s establish a rule that if you’re...
Helicopter Parents: The Backlash Against... →
Read this, prospective and current parents.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahhappy)
November 2009
20 posts
100 Things Journalists Should Never Do →
“Limited space is also a problem. “You can fit a lot more into prose than...”
– Poynter Online
Watch
Prospective client: $400 for a logo?! Why are you so expensive? My nephew has Photoshop—I can just get him to do it.
Me: Does your nephew have Microsoft Word?
Prospective client: Yes.
Me: Then have him write you a novel while he’s at it.
Immediately after a website presentation...
clientsfromhell:
Client: Web 2.0… that’s a Microsoft application, right?
China Censors Obama Speech →