January 2012
6 posts
“I think for me Twitter is the equivalent of working in an office and having...”
– Susan Orlean on her constant Twittering. [This is what I use Tumblr for.] (via nprfreshair)
This is what I use both Twitter and Tumblr for.
December 2011
5 posts
3 tags
hard graft →
Some really cool Apple-oriented bags and accessories. via @BrilliantCrank
“An apostrophe is an apostrophe is an apostrophe, I tell my students. When used...”
– Apostrophes don’t swing both ways
Related: its, not it’s.
November 2011
5 posts
Is This the Future of Punctuation!? - WSJ.com →
In which the largely unknown punctuation symbol “the snark” is revealed.
October 2011
7 posts
Night and the City: Walter Hill on The Warriors... →
Great insight into “The Warriors” from its director. via Coudal
For your hyperbolic pleasure. [via]
Do What Government Used to Do →
Great poster by Alan Williams for Civic Center.
September 2011
6 posts
Nordic Thunder: The Myth, The Man, the 2011... →
Great interview with a man dedicated to his art…which happens to be air guitar.
http://gapersblock.com/ →
1 tag
August 2011
8 posts
“Chicago has over 200 neighborhoods within 77 “community areas.”...”
– Chicago’s Public Health and Violence Troubles Still Segregated - Monica E. Doherty, Gapers Block Mechanics
3 tags
“OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking,...”
– Warren Buffett, in a New York Times op-ed entitled “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich.”
Those are the first and last paragraphs. Everything in between is well worth reading, too.
“While lots of people have noted the general terribleness of restaurant sites, I...”
– Restaurant websites: Why are they so awful? Which ones are the absolute worst? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
There will soon be more articles lamenting terrible restaurant websites than restaurant websites themselves. Web design industry, let’s stop talking about it and actually do...
July 2011
11 posts
“Now I know it doesn’t have as much content as the NYT, but don’t you wish that...”
– Redesigning And Re-Thinking The News | Drawar
Stuff like this makes me really nervous about the redesign we’ve been working on. I mean, yeah, Naz did an amazing job designing Gapers Block, and I’m forever in his debt for that, but we need to improve it nonetheless. Our interior content...
“It’s not that blogs are dead. It’s that they’re ubiquitous.”
– Christopher Mims, “Google Marks The End of Blogging As a Means of Personal Expression” - Technology Review
The rest of the article makes a mountain out of a molehill (two tech bloggers redirecting their domains to Google+ does not make a trend; neither does a dozen, considering how...
June 2011
10 posts
“Those of us who came of age alongside AOL must contend with something even more...”
– The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle
Great article in GOOD, with a bunch of recollections by Internet friends and colleagues. I honestly can’t think of Matt Haughey as anything other than “mathowie.”
I had an AOL account back in 1992 or ‘93, but I never hung out in...
