October 2011
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September 2011
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“I’m not terribly interested in whether real, brain-chemically-defined Asperger’s is over- or underdiagnosed, or whether it exists at all except as a metaphor. I’m interested in how vital the description feels lately. Is there any chance the Aspergerian retreat from affective risk, in favor of the role of alienated scientist-observer, might be an increasingly...
June 2011
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“Very often people oddly put books against the internet. Man’s first...”
– (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
May 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Fonts in Use →
Hunting didones and grotesques in the wild.
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December 2010
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“In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species,...”
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
October 2010
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Want to Prevent Gay Teen Suicide? Legalize... →
Steve Silberman movingly connects this month’s tragic teen suicides with the cause of marriage equality.
But as a former gay teen who thought about suicide on a regular basis through my high school years, I can tell you: If I’d known that someday I might end up with a sweet, brilliant, handsome, science-loving geek husband, I would have been a much happier and less stressed-out kid. I...
September 2010
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“First they built the road, then they built the town. That’s why...”
– Arcade Fire, “Month of May.” (Don’t know that I’ve heard a more pithy summary of suburbia.)
August 2010
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“People who talk about our “materialistic society” and about getting...”
– Garret Keizer, “Why dogs go after mail carriers,” Harper’s Magazine, September 2010
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Goodbye to All This →
Mark Dery’s final essay for True/Slant is a dirge—or, alternatively, a tribute—to involving, surprising, unabashedly literate long-form non-fiction in the age of online page-view driven skimmery.
The mark of a real writer is that she cares deeply about literary joinery, about keeping the lines of her prose plumb. That’s what makes writers writers: to them, prose isn’t just some...
July 2010
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Thank God for the Whistle-Blowers →
It is our president who unnecessarily sacrifices the lives of our soldiers and not those in the press who let the public in on the folly of the mission itself.
Some clear-eyed perspective from The Nation.
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June 2010
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Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures →
Spruce up your type with one simple CSS declaration.
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Better Screen, Same Typography →
From Subtraction.com:
Steve Jobs’ vision for Apple, repeated in yesterday’s keynote address, posits that the company operates at the intersection between technology and the liberal arts. I think it’s reasonable to regard fine typography as falling within that mandate, but unfortunately, they are falling short of that promise. Building a great display for typography without building great...
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Safari 5 Port of Helvetireader →
kirindave:
A trivial port of HelvetiReader to Safari 5. In order to install, you need to turn extensions on in the developer menu (you turn that on in the advanced section of preferences).
Lovely, and so far it’s working all charm-like.
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May 2010
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“The queasy blend of friends and “friends” is central to the Facebook experience....”
– Eileen jones nails it (via pbones and jimray)
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Peeling away the paper
It’s worth sharing two well-considered critiques of the new Wired app for iPad, which nicely temper my breathless excitement about the app two days ago. First, Information Architects provides a second-blush dissection of the app, finding print design lost in a new land. Second, an attack from the inside out: Interfacelab breaks open the Wired for iPad source and finds little more than a big...
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Wired for iPad is the touchable future
Well, it finally arrived early this morning: the future of magazines. The first issue of Wired for the iPad lives up to the promise of all those demo videos we drooled over. It’s beautifully designed, and doubly so: the app’s UI is elegant and intuitive, so navigating the magazine immediately makes sense. Better, the articles themselves are laid out to be sharp, engaging, and readable....
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Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open... →
Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.
From the Wired News blog.
A good problem to have →
Apple’s not going to take over the world because — if for no other reason — the laws of the United States won’t let them. If you don’t want to contribute to their success because their behavior is distasteful to you, then don’t; but don’t forget how fortunate we are to have such a ruthlessly innovative company at the helm of the ship at this point in time.
Thoughtful words from Mike Industries on...
Inventing a Planet » Beat Consumerism: Love Your... →
minimalmac:
This is a great paradigm. We tend to think that consumerism is about loving our stuff. But it’s not. Consumerism is a result of not loving our stuff at all. In fact, we have so little regard or respect for our material goods that we dispose and replace them with ever increasing regularity.
Love your stuff, folks. (thx Pat Dryburgh)
Indeed. And: indeed.