Live map of London Underground trains
incredible! and maybe useful
That is so cool! (Reminds me of One Bus Away—my favorite app after Orbital :P)
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (F, 20s, sipping coffee, Cafe EnVie, NOLA) http://bit.ly/3Xzisl #vacationspy
For about a month, I’ve been on the hunt for the edition of Gatsby with that cover; I had it in high school and I’ve no idea where it got to. The one I got in college (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 1995) is the one with the mid-century modern bits around the edge. Which is fine, but I want the other one back. (:
Cancer cells feed on fructose, study finds - Health - Cancer - msnbc.com
Americans take in large amounts of fructose, mainly in high fructose corn syrup, a mix of fructose and glucose that is used in soft drinks, bread and a range of other foods.
(via tiffehr)
“A range of other foods” is, perhaps, the most benign description of high-fructose corn syrup’s ubiquity ever. The Corn Growers Assn finger-wags moderation, but that’s nigh impossible when it’s very nearly literally in everything. On the upside: it’s not as tricky to avoid now as it was 4 years ago. Suck it, high-fructose corn syrup!
(Thank heavens for Mexico-bottled Coca-Cola.)
This Holga D concept is a thing of beauty
I would like to have one, please. (Is that concept page having a laugh? I almost can’t tell. I don’t really care, still want the camera, but I wonder.)
“Every object, however near the eye, has something about it which you cannot see, and which brings the mystery of distance even into every part and portion of what we suppose ourselves to see most distinctly.”from Modern Painters I, John Ruskin
20 minutes later, I came across the following in The Elegance of the Hedgehog:
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath…
06/14: Untitled - Los Angeles, California
Mike! So good.
One of the things I miss the very most about L.A.: agave as landscaping material. snif.
Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? - NYTimes.com
CANDACE FLEMING’S résumé boasts a double major in industrial engineering and English from Stanford, an M.B.A. from Harvard, a management position at Hewlett-Packard and experience as president of a small software company.
But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that it didn’t matter that she didn’t have business cards, because all they would say was “Mom.”
No, it gets better.
(via Instapaper)
In 2010, no less. Shoot me now.
What Doreen said! sigh.
[Toby Stuart, a Harvard Business School professor] says that some men are reluctant to invest in women’s start-ups because “there are enough things that can go wrong with a high-risk, early-stage venture that if you’re worried about any interpersonal dynamic issues, why not do a deal that takes that out of the equation?”
Oh, sweet; I didn’t know men never had interpersonal dynamic issues. That’s awesome! Go you guys! …
Many are pushed to pursue supervisory and management jobs instead of “individual contributor” jobs involving deep technical expertise…
What I really enjoyed about being a manager, apart from bullshit-filtering for my team (unexpectedly satisfying!), is that I worked. I had bugs to fix and templates to build and problems to solve, on top of the delegation and performance reviews and hiring. Loved it.
TheDieline.com: Package Design: Puma and Yves Behar’s new green packaging
After three years in the making, a new solution to the shoebox is announced- and it’s pretty sleek too!
“It’s hard to imagine something as simple as the shoebox being completely overhauled. But Puma and Fuseproject have done just that, in a design that will completely transform the brand’s supply chain—saving millions in electricity, fuel, and water.
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How cool is that. Reduces cardboard use by 65%? Come on! How long until this is de rigeur? (Wondering whether it degrades gracefully for really big shoes.)
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Bon Iver – Come Talk To Me (Peter Gabriel Cover).
(via courtneyc)
Wonderful.
The David Foster Wallace Audio Project
Came across this website today and just melted. If you’re at all interested in the life of D.F.W I suggest you take a look.
So. Cool.
I’ve yet to get all the way through any of David Foster Wallace’s printed work (I’m trying!), but I did get to see & hear him read once. The organizers made the mistake of having him go first; he had the whole of Royce Hall rolling in the aisles and no one after him (Alice Sebold was 2nd) had a snowball’s chance to avoid the deathly quiet of an unimpressed audience.
Got my fingers crossed the 2 stories he read might appear in the audio project. (:
Have no idea how many of you watched tonight’s Opening Ceremonies to 2010’s Winter Olympics in my hometown. I just wanted to say besides being extremely proud of Vancouver and the nation I live in. This man, slam poet Shane Koyczan killed it tonight.
Okay: he? was fantastic.
“We are the abandoned hesitation of all those who can’t wait” - brilliant!
Also: zed. Hee.
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Grizzly Bear’s cover of of Hot Chip’s “Boy From School” is keeping me company today.
(via Tom)
I don’t know the original, but I’m not sure I need to to appreciate this. Grizzly Bear acoustic seems to always be a win.
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Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine
Miles’s is my favorite version; goes quite well with a cold, windy evening in Seattle.
(2nd fave? Chet Baker, yo.)
Polaroids! Volkswagen! Summery, citrus-y color! What’s not to love?
