February 2010
January 2010
fitting tribute : ) →
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on...”
– J.D. Salinger
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it,...”
– J.D. Salinger
goodbye, good friend
Google Searchstories →
“the moment Jobs announced the iPad’s base price ($499), Apple’s...”
– via @KBAndersen
GOOD.is | Haitian Aid →
Bill Gates on the Daily Show →
robots that love vs. fixing education in america
bill gates weighs in on the more difficult challenge.
Tomorrow, in a year — A Darwin electro-opera with... →
The opera-genre provides the DNA, the framework of the performance. It calls for large scale, and it forms a space where form and expression dominate. The Swedish music group The Knife creates completely new compositions that challenge the conventional conception of opera music.
The opera presents an image of Darwin that above all reminds us that the world is a place of remarkable similarities...
Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces →
This might be old news, but just found this site today in an attempt to find the release year of Tobias Frere-Jones’ Whitney typeface. FYI: it’s 2004.
Employment Future: The Decade Ahead In Jobs : NPR →
Where America’s jobs are heading or not.
“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn...”
– Buckminster Fuller
Living Off Craigslist
My name is Jason Paul. After graduating from college with a bachelor’s degree in communication, I attempted to pursue a “conventional” job writing for a number of publications. I applied for over 180 positions, from small papers in Lawrence, Kansas to Boulder, Colorado. After an overwhelming swell of rejection emails, I called the conventional lifestyle quits and decided to pursue an idea of my...
Browse vintage LIFE magazines →
Big Ben Clock on Twitter →
awesome.
WatchA world colonized by brands is the theme of a new film by French designers and filmmakers H5. Logorama is a slick 17-minute-long animated movie that appears to lampoon both the Hollywood blockbuster — violent, crude and adrenalized — and the world of branding, a world where logos festoon every surface and where it is customary to be exposed to brand activity at every turn. I say appears to...
“A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate...”
– William Gibson’s definition of ‘cyberspace’ in Neuromancer (1984)
Is Yele Haiti a disaster relief organization?
In a nutshell, the source says, “Yele Haiti is not a disaster relief organization.” According to MTV, Jean’s pleas for money via Twitter and television appearances asking people to text “yele” 501501 for a $5 contribution had brought in more than $1 million to the organization as of yesterday. But large first-responders usually have the resources to move money quickly...