December 2009
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In progress: books.
Before college: I read linearly (wow that does not look or sound like an actual word). It didn’t occur to me not to and jr. and high school reading loads didn’t warrant anything else.
During college: on a quarter system, focused on my major, I learned in short order how to flip between a stack of books without needing to finish one before starting another. Note-taking is how I got...
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No two snowflakes alike? →
The Arial of snowflakes
HA! I love it. (via Coudal)
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The Harry Potter economy →
Harry Potter was in the vanguard of a new approach to big-budget film-making. Most modern blockbuster franchises have two things in common: they are based on known properties such as books and comics, and they are steered by respected but little-known directors. …
It is as though the auteur tradition has been fused with the industrial approach to film-making that was common practice in...
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…for the moment Earth is where we make our stand.
Reflections by Carl Sagan on our pale blue dot captured by Voyager 1 from nearly 4 billion miles away.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
When Death...
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“…it can be hard to accept that what our hero actually needs is to have...”
– Burn it down, John August (via)
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Screen Pass: How networks present the game
I love and watch a lot of football.
The season is 17 weeks + the playoffs and unless I’m traveling I watch all day Sunday, Monday night, and the odd Thursday or Saturday night game. As a result, I spend a lot of time with the graphics from each of the 5 networks currently broadcasting NFL games (CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, NFL Network).
None of them is perfect, but a couple are better than the...
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…the darker side of the anti-excess-fabric... →
I was hoping the zoot suits would come up after the WWII post yesterday, nicely done Jesse. And a great big WORD re: the postscript.
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I am sort of nerd who Voice Memos the shutter...
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Pictory →
From Laura Brunow Miner comes Pictory (“Your best photo stories.”) a thus-far really lovely photo mag. I like that the photos are enormous and slightly overwhelming, easier to get sucked in that way. (:
