October 2009
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My organization is a combination of muscle memory (it feels wrong to not have iPod upper right) and color-matching (like the way ESPN Fantasy Football’s split background matches the app on either side…). (: (The yellow border around Centipede makes me a little crazy.)
Oct 30th
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jimray: “I think something I joke about with Adam is his, and You Look Nice Today’s fanbase, is largely composed of a particular kind of person who really cares about fonts.” — Jesse Thorn, on the type of people who need a little help dressing like a grownup. As someone who cares about both fonts and looking dapper, I’m pretty excited about Put This On. Sweet. Related: A Continuous...
Oct 30th
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Oct 30th
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We do not know his name.
At the Vancouver Art Museum on Sunday, I came across this Stan Douglas installation, Klatsassin. It’s a mixed media (does that sound like 1991 calling to your ears, too?) sort of thing and I found the portraits before the video. The portraits are fantastic (Constable, Prisoner, Thief, Deputy — there are 8[?] more in the museum) and quite large, which suits me just fine. I like to get...
Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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“We changed our style several years ago on plurals like this. Here’s what the...”
– “Words We Love Too Much”, Philip B. Corbett, NYT To which I say: it’s about damn time.
Oct 28th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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“…we prepare for glory by failing until we don’t.”
– American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson That is totally out of context (hello: “quote”), but it’s great. (It comes at the end of a quick description of his son playing in Little League.)
Oct 18th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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Oct 15th
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“The hamburger was born as a simple object, and we all fall in love with it at an...”
– Judging the Object of America’s Universal Food Fetish: The Hamburger, Josh Ozersky Word! Also: “[Spike Mendelsohn] also took a perfectly good hamburger and dropped both an unmelted lump of blue cheese and horseradish mayonnaise onto it. Really, Spike?” Guh-ross, I says. I cannot...
Oct 14th
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Prow, IV
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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“…at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and...”
– Thanksgiving Proclamation, Wilbur Cross, Connecticut governor, 1936 via William Zinsser, On Writing Well
Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Rate iPhone Apps Friday
maniacalrage: Take 10 or 15 minutes out of your day today and rate/review some of the apps you use on your iPhone in the App Store. Most people have tons of apps on their phones, many of which they love, but we’re all guilty of forgetting or not bothering to review them in the store. Let’s make this afternoon the first official Rate iPhone Apps Friday. I rated and reviewed 12 applications...
Oct 9th
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Oct 8th
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Oct 2nd