November 2007
25 posts
links for 2007-11-30
Pictures from Hitchhiking Across America
And friends don’t understand why I want to do this - a transfixing journey and photos to match.
(tags: travel todo photography)
December means: Calendar shopping
As friends well know, I promininently feature Massimo’s Vignelli beautiful work of Swiss-inspired typographic art, the Stendig Calendar, on the wall of my bedroom. In sharp black and white Helvetica and measuring three feet by four feet, it’s impressive.
Still, I’m pretty wooed by this new Pentagram calendar showcasing (I presume twelve) fonts by Matthew Carter, who I can then...
Hello again, world.
For anyone reading along, or anyone stumbling onto this site for the first time: welcome! (And thanks for joining us). I can’t say I aspire to much more than a place to collect pithy bulletins around my interests: things Apple, things engaging-YouTube-videos, a big passion for design, and a marked desire to simply accumulate knowledge on interesting and/or obscure topics.
I think that most...
links for 2007-11-27
How To: Move a WordPress Blog to a New Hosting Account
One of these days, I’ll actually get the site I want on the domain I want.
(tags: howto tutorials wordpress blogging)
Guest List Status « The ROFLCon Blog
I am so there. Kthxbai.
(tags: conference humor internet meme lolcats)
Is it Christmas?
(tags: calendar humor rss)
links for 2007-11-27
How To: Move a WordPress Blog to a New Hosting Account
One of these days, I’ll actually get the site I want on the domain I want.
(tags: howto tutorials wordpress blogging)
Guest List Status « The ROFLCon Blog
I am so there. Kthxbai.
(tags: conference humor internet meme lolcats)
Is it Christmas?
(tags: calendar humor rss)
links for 2007-11-25
Talk to the Newsroom: Deputy Times News Editor Philip B. Corbett
Pages upon pages of reader questions and thoughtful answers on grammatical minutae from the guy who writes the Time Style Manual. The glory! (via DF a while ago)
(tags: editing grammar language nyt)
links for 2007-11-24
Hugo’s blog » Popup posting bookmarklet for del.icio.us
Relevant, giving this inaugural post of daily links - gotst to love the pop ups.
(tags: bookmarklet del.icio.us)
Mac OS X Leopard: 200+ Productivity Booster Keyboard Shortcuts
Did you know there was a “Stop Process” keyboard shortcut? I wonder if these work when you really need them.
(tags: apple hack osx productivity...
Tufts: a leading source for unaffordable...
The fabulous Nikki Bruce (LA’08) does the old Times front page story thing today in a piece on the “Big Rise in Cost of Birth Control on Campuses”. Sing it, Nikki…
Apple understands you, Kevin Costner
YouTube - Kevin Costner in Apple ad
An invincible Germany
David Lynch here. I don’t want to have anything to do with Hitler. We all know he was not a good person who did terrible things.
Shitshow at David Lynch’s meditation conference in Berlin when his guest speaker expresses a desire for “an invincible Germany.” When the crowd points out that Hitler wanted one, too, speaker replies, “unfortunately he didn’t...
St. Vincent: 'Marry Me' live in Minneapolis →
584 ways to design a business card. →
I have never considered Textpattern, but this... →
Of colored waters (delicious ones)
And then there is peach-flavored “endurance (e + astragalus),” with its caveat: “usage may result in increased stamina (no, not in that way).” I am repelled by your coyness. “This beverage will not help you have better sex,” the label should read. “It is peach-flavored water. What are you, an idiot?”
From McSweeney’s, Open Letters to People...
“And then there is peach-flavored “endurance (e + astragalus),” with...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Open Letters to People Or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
Top 100 Architecture Blogs →
This boy writing a thesis on space, urban development and planning is not going to pull himself away from the computer until May 2008.
WatchStephin Merrit writes and records a track in two days (from a photo and random word) for All Songs Considered. Part of a brand new music site from NPR!
Watch(via Video of Paul Rand Tribute video - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting)
Let's write a Thesis, shall we? →
A Roundup Of Leopard Security Features →
“Apple sold millions of dollars worth of hardware off the back of our...”
– -NBC CEO Jeff Zucker
Someone’s out of touch… Also, don’t miss, “Apple has destroyed the music business.”
NBC Universal wanted cut of Apple hardware sales