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Extinct, my ASS! on Vimeo

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:58:39 -0700

Extinct, my ASS! on Vimeo: Dinosaur roams the hallways at the LA Natural History Museum. Now THAT looks worth a drive up to LA, doesn’t it?

Ooh, look! My poorly-lit photograph from 2004 made it into an...

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:23:13 -0700

Ooh, look! My poorly-lit photograph from 2004 made it into an iPhone-only crowd-sourced travel guide in 2008. The internet is a weird, weird place.

July 22, 2008: Peter Klappert on experimentation

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:29:47 -0700

July 22, 2008: Peter Klappert on experimentation:

“Experimentation should not be confused with mere dilettantism: the quest is serious, the stakes are mortal, the poet’s desire must answer a desire in the reader.”

- Klappert, from his course…

Valérie Madill redesigns the call number label

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:13:16 -0700

Valérie Madill redesigns the call number label: as a designer who is often tempted to librarianism, this pretty much presses all my buttons.

Kansas Information Architect Sean Tevis is running for state representative - and produced an XKCD-style comic to raise money.

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:46:27 -0700

Kansas Information Architect Sean Tevis is running for state representative - and produced an XKCD-style comic to raise money.: called, “Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner” - it combines so. many. internet. jokes.

trailer for Masaki Kobayashi's film, Harakiri

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:46:27 -0700

trailer for Masaki Kobayashi's film, Harakiri: looks great, but then again I’m a sucker for samurai movies. Bookmarking for the future netflix queue.

It’s nice to see some of last year’s designs for...

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:16:00 -0700

It’s nice to see some of last year’s designs for World Youth Day out in the real world. It’s not like designing bandannas is super exciting - but designing something for 100,000 pilgrims is kind of cool.

RCS Computer Experience carries Art Lebedev products

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:42:48 -0700

RCS Computer Experience carries Art Lebedev products: Bookmarking this for next month’s trip to New York. I don’t really like computer stores, but it would be fun to see A-L studio products in real life.

"Popes and the Tale of Their Names" Book now on sale

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:52:08 -0700

"Popes and the Tale of Their Names" Book now on sale: Fellow papal historian Anu Guruge has a new book out; I’m looking forward to reading it!

Twitter / Joshua Blankenship: There's a church management web app . . .

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:34:48 -0700

Twitter / Joshua Blankenship: There's a church management web app . . .: It’s gratifying to know others have similar emotions to mine.

July 12, 2008: Shakespeare on death

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:28:57 -0700

July 12, 2008: Shakespeare on death:

RICHARD:
Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let’s choose executors and talk of wills:
And yet not so, for…

Another piece of evidence in the “Are Dolphins...

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:08:17 -0700

Another piece of evidence in the “Are Dolphins Robots?” debate: a mechanized dolphin submarine. Don’t miss the YouTube videos of the thing in action.

How to Type a Macron (on your Mac)

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:28:14 -0700

How to Type a Macron (on your Mac): Pat points me to this good resource for my long-neglected Latin studies.

July 10, 2008: Eliot, from The Waste Land

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:45:09 -0700

July 10, 2008: Eliot, from The Waste Land:

“After the torchlight red on sweaty faces
After the frosty silence in the gardens
After the agony in stony places
The shouting and the crying
Prison and palace and reverberation
Of thunder of spring…

Chad Krizan sends in an NFL-themed proposal to Ex Unum,...

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:08:57 -0700

Chad Krizan sends in an NFL-themed proposal to Ex Unum, Pluribus!

Q: Are you a robot?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:48:38 -0700

Q: Are you a robot?: Nate finds further evidence that dolphins are, of course, robots.

July 9, 2008: Eliot and exploring

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:45:37 -0700

July 9, 2008: Eliot and exploring:

“Old men ought to be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and empty…

July 8, 2008: Eliot and time

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:45:37 -0700

July 8, 2008: Eliot and time:

“Time and the bell have buried the day”

- T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (Four Quartets), 1943

"Social networking features" is the new Flash Intro

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:50:33 -0700

"Social networking features" is the new Flash Intro: Thanks, Mr. Zeldman.

Why I Am a Designer

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:17:21 -0700

Why I Am a Designer: While I am way too young to have ever used Bestine in the professional world, my personal version of this graph is otherwise very similar.