January 2008
46 posts
“Arc embodies a similarly unPC attitude to HTML. The predefined libraries just do...”
– Paul Graham, Arc’s Out (his new dialect of Lisp)
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“What tends to happen in financial markets, is bad things happen when you really...”
– Hedge Fund Manager, n+1
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“In Europe’s capital, Brussels, technocrats, strategists and legislators...”
– Parag Khanna, Waving Goodbye to Hegemony —via ari wallach
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The Typography Post
“Typography is how language looks.” —Ellen Lupton I’ve been spending a lot of time with typography recently and I think I’ve come around to the view that great design often begins with type selection. Most webpages are still primarily written content, not interfaces of pure symbols. One of the primary goals of information design is to shape hierarchies and move things up...
The Mountain Goats, Going to Georgia live from a...
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“But what separates digital art from its analog counterparts aesthetically?...”
– Zuzano Licko and Rudy VanderLans, Emigre 11, 1989.
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“West of the Mississippi it’s a little more look, see, act. A little less...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Keeping internet services online suffers from the problem of black swans. Nassim...”
– Joel Spolsky, Five whys
If you’re curious what it sounds like when a...
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“In other words, our ultimate goal is not finding, filtering, fostering,...”
– Andrew Taylor, whose “Artful Manager” blog is consistently insighful on the goals of culture and curatorial work. via rach
“The Medium is the Massage.”
– Marshall McLuhan. I’ve been thinking about this a lot in relation to information architecture in different media (mobile, web, live space).
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“It may soon no longer be possible for even gifted visionaries to imagine the...”
– Robert Austin
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“How come feelings of emptiness take up so much space?”
– East Village artist
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UGK feat. Outkast, Int’l Players Anthem (I...
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“Who are your favorite writers?
In alphabetical order: Jorge Luis Borges…”
– Karl Rove likes magical realism.
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“There’s a simple rule of thumb: Every ten minutes of commuting results in ten...”
– Robert Putnam, from a New Yorker article on the negative impact commuting has on people’s social lives via joelaz
Warren Zevon, Don’t Let Us Get Sick -...
“There’s more home surgery in that movie than in any other movie I’ve...”
– Jed Alpert on No Country for Old Men
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Warren Zevon, Hostage-O - Life’ll Kill Ya....
“New ideas often need old buildings.”
– Jane Jacobs
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“I think talking about money causes people not to take you seriously when talking...”
– Andrew Solomon.
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Jason Goldman: his [Obama's] lack of national or executive experience is actually a reasonable criticism. but he's my guy.
Paul Bucheit: I wonder how experience correlates with success as a president. I sometimes suspect that more experienced politicians have simply had more time to become corrupt.
Dan Egnor: well, first question is what is "success as a president". there's only 43 data points, and circumstances have got to be the primary determiner...
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“Manhattan is one big pile of money, and so you guys think you know urban America...”
– This spout off is great: The Wire’s creator David Simon on NYC. via Tim Shey
Petra Haden, Don’t Stop Believin’...
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“Postal Service spokesman Al DeSarro said half of the mail his agency handles is...”
– Post Office Opposes ‘No Junk Mail’ Legislation
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Letter to a Young Essayist
Dear— The dash signifies that you are reading the answer to a question unasked, the reply to a letter unreceived. No one’s written beseeching me to reveal the Art of Being an Essayist. You aren’t the heavy-hearted Mr. Kappus to whom Rainer Maria Rilke addresses his consolatory Letters to a Young Poet (last letter, Paris 1908) or the Dear...
Kate Nash - I’m Not Gonna Teach Your...
Today I walked down onto the subway platform and saw a black man, giggling and giddy. He was reading the newspaper and as I walked by he looked up, lifted the newspaper, and revealed the headline—Obama.
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Devendra Banhart, Fistful of Love
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T.S. Eliot - Tradition and the Individual Talent →
“One of the facts that might come to light in this process is our tendency to insist, when we praise a poet, upon those aspects of his work in which he least resembles anyone else. In these aspects or parts of his work we pretend to find what is individual, what is the peculiar essence of the man. We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially...