January 2008
39 posts
“I hand him a letter written by a fan and addressed to Arthur C Clarke. He...”
– ‘Citizen Kubrick,’ a brilliant piece written about Stanley Kubrick’s estate and his collections of boxes, printed in the Guardian’s film section, without byline, 27 March 2004
what is inspiration ?
Soya ohboy of catslock.com, on what you really get out of a good prof :
“Aren’t there enough fonts? Isn’t there enough music?” —Ed Benguiat I love fonts. I love the feeling of their glyphs; the thicks and the thins, the bowls, that negative space that sometimes makes up more of the shape than the strokes themselves. I...
grating nutmeg and grinding chilies for the roasting of a butternut squash.
Campaign Reporting in Under 140 Taps (nytimes) →
on twitter use by journalist’s as a flashback to the typically witty albeit brief telegraphese historically used by field correspondents.
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it. —jwz
“In the naturally effervescent Mr. Gillespie, opposites existed. His playing...”
– Dizzy Gillespie, Who Sounded Some of Modern Jazz’s Earliest Notes, Dies at 75 in the nytimes
the new, blacker black →
the stuff has a reflective index of 0.045 percent, three times darker than the previously-darkest material
“Daniel Barenboim, Argentine-born-Israeli pianist and conductor has been granted...”
– on the CBC Radio 2 Blog
“Judge Dean D. Pregerson of Federal District Court in Los Angeles threw out...”
– Hunter Walker, citing Judge Dean D. Pregerson, on gridskipper
[EDITOR’S NOTE] interestingly, I might use similar words to describe my presence online or, perhaps even more so, my Moleskines and other written records that bear witness to my world.
back to your regularly scheduled freezing rain and piercing cold, Ottawa
a very informal imperical study of the impact a... →
conclusion: Georgia (or other non-times serif) receives best marks, Times (bland but academic) second, Trebuchet (sans serif) the worst. the style used in an essay certainly seems to influence grading tendencies, even if that is at an unconscious level.
“Queuing is almost a national pastime for the British, who will automatically...”
– Social Issues Research Centre
groovey blues + funk artist Jack de Keyzer live on cbc radio 2 now. (1. tune in 2. Feel Good)
fikapaus
as anya [Elisabeth Ericson] explains it, fika means
having coffee, yes, but also tea, or any other beverage, and usually a sweet baked good of some variety … [most importantly] it is a social occasion. I’ve yet to find a satisfactory translation.
also mentioning that “the idea of a swedish espresso bar is just awesome/hilarious in itself,” at 41 West 58th St. in...
“Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain...”
– The Beeb
“Serving anything more than tea and biscuits at a political meeting is an offence...”
– # 30 from the 2007 installment of the BBC’s list of 100 things we didn’t know last year. via nostrich
Why Starbucks actually helps mom and pop... →
Hyman’s new neighbor boosted his sales so much that he decided to turn the tactic around and start targeting Starbucks. “We bought a Chinese restaurant right next to one of their stores and converted it, and by God, it was doing $1 million a year right away,” he said.
— cubicle17
the Sri Lankan government has formally withdrawn... →
— aatw
