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2022
2019
- Indulgence
- Don’t Breathe
- Atlanta Urban Walking Trilogy
- Paddington
- John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
- Hiking Kungsleden
- Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts
- Wonder Woman
- Crazy Rich Asians
- Free Solo
- A Vigilante
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Us
- Matilda
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Mandy
- Good Things in 2018
- Eighth Grade
- A Simple Favor
- Memento
- Hip-hop artists are musicologists
- Black Panther
- Spider-Man 2
- Angels Wear White
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Widows
- Searching
- Lady and the Tramp
- Leave No Trace
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout
- Nocturnal Animals
- What Do We Mean When We Call Art ‘Necessary’?
- On the Basis of Sex
- 万引き家族 (Shoplifters)
- “What am I doing when I like who I am?”
- Making a film is a moral act
- The Big Sick
- The Equalizer 2
- First Reformed
- Arbitrary Goals
2018
- Heat
- Roma
- Harry Potter Sorcerer’s Stone
- 살인의 추억 (Memories of Murder)
- Bonnie and Clyde
- The Game (1997)
- Logan
- Network
- Deliverance
- Willow Creek
- Transsiberian
- Testament
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- Mr. Brooks
- The Uninvited (2009)
- Klute
- Night Moves
- Psycho
- Mulholland Falls
- The Fly (1986)
- You Were Never Really Here
- Trust
- A Star Is Born (2018)
- Nosferatu
- Rear Window
- El Orfanato (The Orphanage)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Tomb Raider
- The Lodger
- Green Room
- Hereditary
- Lean On Pete
- It Follows
- Chinatown
- The Descent
- Arnold Schönberg: Playing Cards
- Sullivan’s Travels
- The Blair Witch Project
- Support the Girls
- The Score
- Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
- Alan Watts – “Music and Life”
- Kung Fu Killer
- Starship Troopers
- John Wick 2
- Alien 3
- Dressed to Kill
- Harry Brown
- V for Vendetta
- People of the Horse | Erika Larsen
- Night Moves
- Leave No Trace
- Logan Lucky
- Get Out
- Kannathil Muthamittal (A Peck on the Cheek)
- Culling vs. Surrender
- The Crow
- Sahara
- A glamorous Goodwill mystery: Who are the strangers in these slides?
- The Secret Meaning of Jurassic World
- Twilight
- Nobody Walks in L.A.
- Take a Photo Here
- Incredibles 2
- A Complete Guide to Getting What You Want
- Dear Zachary
- Faces Places
- Lady Bird
- Three statistics to understand the world
- Paranormal Activity
- To survive our high-speed society, cultivate 'temporal bandwidth'
- The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- The Incredibles
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Hours
- My Visit to the World’s First Gym for Your Face
- You don’t have to attend every argument you are invited to
- Uptown Girls
- Source Code
- Letter of Recommendation: Airport Layovers
- M.F.A.
- The Little Things Matter: A Microeconomic Travel Guide
- Revenge
- A Hole
- Annihilation
- Angel Heart
- Coherence
- Allied
- There's More to This World Than You Have Seen
- Rush Hour
- Barracuda
- Carrie
- The Hole Where All the Success Leaks Out
- There Will Be Blood
- A Modest Guide to Productivity – Frank Chimero
- News-Adjacent Reading
- Interiority
- The Fast and the Furious
- Streets of Fire
- The Florida Project
- The Revenant
- Seeing What Is There
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- The Silence of the Lambs
- American Honey
- The Master
- Green
- We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It
- The Girl With All the Gifts
- The Gift
- Annihilation
- Blade Runner 2049
- Art Moments
- Wind River
- Columbus
- Knight of Cups and the Spirituality of Sleaze
- Life Off Grid
- Beltline
- Emily Dickinson, Famous Gardener
- We Are What We Repeatedly Do
- Dunkirk
- Good Time
- Phantom Thread
- It Comes at Night
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Bras on Instagram
- Imaginary Book #3
- When to Share
- The Post
- If you grew up somewhere else...
- Song to Song
- The Neon Demon
- A Ghost Story
- I Move to Keep Things Whole
- Silence
- All the Money in the World
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- Why Walking Helps Us Think
- The Lost City of Z
- Margaret
- Good Things in 2017
- Mother Nature's Sons
2017
- Heat
- The Dark Knight
- The Village
- Into the Wild
- One Hour Photo
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- The Fountain
- L.A. Confidential
- Nightcrawler
- Noah
- The Two Faces of January
- End of Watch
- Run All Night
- Sicario
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Allied
- The Departed
- Arrival
- Panic Room
- Seven
- Dances with Wolves
- Stagecoach
- The General’s Daughter
- Congo
- Doctor Strange
- Alien
- Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- Prisoners
- The Invitation
- Passion
- Wish You Were Here
- Z for Zachariah
- A Most Violent Year
- Felony
- Predator
- Take Shelter
- Sliding Doors
- Valkyrie
- Our Kind of Traitor
- 20th Century Women
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- American Honey
- The Fugitive
- Jaws
- Shaun of the Dead
- Bridges of Madison County
- Nerve
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Ocean's Eleven
- Star Trek: Beyond
- Eyes Wide Shut
- The Truman Show
- Close-Up
- The Mummy (1999)
- Her
- Train to Busan
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- No Way Out
- The Sixth Sense
- Manchester by the Sea
- RoboCop
- Elle
- Interstellar
- No Country for Old Men
- A History of Violence
- Frailty
- In the Bedroom
- The Thing
- Going Clear
- Frankenstein
- A Simple Plan
- Children of Heaven
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- Complete Unknown
- Cold War
- The Stranger
- You're Next
- The Lobster
- Knight of Cups
- The Grey
- Miami Vice
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Cameraperson
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- How I Got My Attention Back – Backchannel
- Robert Eggers, Director of ‘The Witch,’ on the Horror Right in Front of Us | | Observer
- The Witch
- Blue Ruin
- Stormy Monday
- Love & Friendship
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Genevieve Bell: ‘Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant’ | Technology | The Guardian
- Paris Review - William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211
- Resentment might start with a wrong done to you
- On Digital Minimalism - Study Hacks - Cal Newport
2016
- The Neon Demon
- Bone Tomahawk
- Arrival
- Moonlight
- Bølgen (The Wave)
- Halloween
- Sicario
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
- Chimes at Midnight
- Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
- Hush
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Carolyn Hax: A quick trip from travel mode to grump mode - The Washington Post
- In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting - The New Yorker
- Hell or High Water
- Man of Tai Chi
- 99 Homes
- The Ides of March
- Eastern Promises
- Gone Baby Gone
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Force Majeure
- Into the Blue
- Midnight Special
- The Thin Red Line
- Do we need *more* radical Islam? - Marginal REVOLUTION
- Blow Out
- The Scrying Game — Real Life
- Love & Mercy
- A Stranger Things moment that spoke to me
- 10 Reasons the 5K is Freaking Awesome
- Radical Grace
- Is ‘Rage Twitter’ Meaningless, or an Expression of a Deeper Sense of Hurt? – The Extratextual
- Why Is It So Hard to Get Serial Drama Right in 2016?
- Force of Destiny
- Even Superheroes Punch the Clock - The New York Times
- Storyboards for Heat
- Eve's Bayou
- Disturbing the Peace
- Man on the Street - The New Yorker
- L'Inhumaine
- adventure journal – The Struggles of an Introverted Adventurer
- The Third Man (1949)
- Northfork
- Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition
- How Americans pretend to love ‘ethnic food’
- Grandma
- Guillermo del Toro's Twitter book recommendations (with tweets) · tehgort · Storify
- Crimson Peak
- How Burglars Commit Crime and Take Advantage of Cities by Hacking Architecture | VICE | United States
- The Efficiency Trap
- How Aerial Surveillance Has Changed Policing — and Crime — in Los Angeles
- The Witch
- The Da Vinci Code
- I Want You Still: Celebrating 40 Years of Marvin Gaye’s Sensual Classic | Pitchfork
- Citizenfour
- Ad Reinhardt, from “How to Look at Art” (1946)
- The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Meru
- Gone Girl
- The Weird Global Appeal of Heavy Metal
- Tangerine
- The Assassin
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Basin and Range
- The Revenant
- Out Stealing Horses
- Carol
- Spotlight
- The Oxy Epidemic Shows What Happens When Addictive Drugs Are Easily Available | Mother Jones
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Discarding our stuff murders a version of ourselves
- Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
- Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Your sense of self is bound up in how you use your time
- Aurora
- New year, new you? Forget it
- About
2015
- Target in the Night
- Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre.
- If you’re 30% through life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships
- Ellsworth Kelly, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance I—VIII
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- BLDGBLOG: Ghost Streets of Los Angeles
- Why Do I Have to Call This App ‘Julie’?
- Chi-Raq
- Equilateral
- Creed
- I started using Day One last fall
- Structured Procrastination: Do Less & Deceive Yourself
- Only God Forgives
- To the Wonder
- Ex Machina
- Spectre
- Room
- When Popular Fiction Isn’t Popular: Genre, Literary, and the Myths of Popularity | Electric Literature
- How to talk to anyone: the experts' guide
- Crimson Peak
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Bridge of Spies
- A dog standing in water
- The Politics of Empathy and the Politics of Technology — The Message
- Leveling both sides of the playing field
- Public Enemies
- The Wesleyan Argus | A.O. Scott Defends the Art of Criticism
- Hunger Makes Us Modern Fans: An Interview with Carrie Brownstein | NOISEY
- Reasons to Survive November
- It’s said that Chaplin wanted you to like him, but Keaton didn’t care
- The digital revolution in higher education has already happened. No one noticed.
- Buster Keaton – The Art of the Gag
- American Psycho
- The Book of Strange New Things
- How Friendships Change When You Become an Adult
- Making a masterpiece with Bob Ross and the iPad Pro Pencil
- Back to the Future and creative frustration
- "Back to the Future" is now all back and no future | MZS | Roger Ebert
- Beautiful Mutants / Swallowing Geography
- Sympathy for the Devil by Lorrie Moore
- My Writing Education: A Time Line - The New Yorker
- Why cabin fantasies shut out reality
- The Martian
- Primal Fear
- Why I Quit Ordering From Uber-for-Food Start-Ups
- Absolute Power
- Living and Dying on Airbnb — Matter
- Why is English so weirdly different from other languages? by John McWhorter — Aeon
- In the Line of Fire
- Can a Trip Ever Be ‘Authentic’? - The New York Times
- Collateral
- Getting along isn’t luck, it’s a skill
- Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas
- On The Knick Set With Steven Soderbergh, Binge Director
- Resonant Frequency: A Glitch in Time: How Oval’s 1995 Ambient Masterpiece Predicted Our Digital Present
- The restriction of trailers to a few carefully edited minutes
- Cardiologists and Chinese Robbers
- Save for Later
- Film Snob? Is That So Wrong?
- Atlanta’s MARTA Map – Super Mario 3 Style
- Twitter distorts internet writers’ understanding of reality
- Delmer Daves’ drawings for 3:10 to Yuma
- 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
- Out of Sight
- The Salvation
- The Hunt
- Friendship is not a pale imitation of sexual romance
- The Aviator
- Close at Hand
- Shutter Island
- The first draft is always perfect
- The Story of Your Life
- The best way to educate yourself is to adjust your peer group
- The Gift
- Mission: Impossible 3
- My new attitude to travel is to skip the iconic – and I thank my father for that
- Why patience really is a virtue
- Diamonds – Kurt Pio
- My creative process begins with: just thinking
- Composition No. 62 from Rear Window
- Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene in a Blockbuster Movie - The New Yorker
- Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
- I’d never had to think about exactly what I meant
- Mindy Kaling's Guide to Killer Confidence
- Song of the Sea
- When Did Feminism Get So “Sneaky”?
- The Guest
- Q&A: Kobe Bryant talks retirement, playoffs and life after basketball
- Three Colors: Red
- The Anthropoid Condition - The Los Angeles Review of Books
- I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver.
- Trainwreck
- The best way to communicate your needs is to trust them
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- The map of American literature’s most epic road trips
- Lil B sums up summer in Atlanta
- Blackhat
- Selfish
- Digging up the source of a fireside chat clip
- Give me file hierarchies, or give me chaos.
- Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack
- A scan from Better Cooking, Better Living (1952)
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
- Drive
- Magic Mike XXL
- Team America: World Police
- I see life as like being attacked by a bear
- Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right?
- Three Colors: White
- Three Colors: Blue
- The Girl on the Train
- Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior
- Enlightenment on Your iPhone
- Balancing Frames and Canvas at Viktor & Rolf
- Rapping – and rocking – with Matt Bonner | Concord Monitor
- Reading War and Peace on my iPhone
- When you’re an actor, you can act on your own
- Reading Amazon reviews of Magic Mike
- Michael Clayton
- Euphoria
- A photo by Billy H.C. Kwok
- The Obtuse Triangle
- Magic Mike XXL Movie Review & Film Summary (2015) | Roger Ebert
- The Sun Never Sets: On Roger Federer, Endings, and Wimbledon
- The Captive
- Jurassic World
- Top Gun
- Gluyas Williams
- Blade Runner (Final Cut)
- Rug Washers in Tehran, Iran, 1960
- Photography would seem to preserve our past
- Adaptation
- Internal Affairs
- Dark Places
- I went on a little hike last weekend
- What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali
- Infernal Affairs
- Train Dreams
- Jurassic Park
- Bright Wall/Dark Room June 2015: A History of Violence
- The Secret of NIMH
- Margin Call
- The Cine-Files » THE TINNITUS TROPE: ACOUSTIC TRAUMA IN NARRATIVE FILM
- Listen for follow-up questions
- CONVERSATIONS ON SLOWNESS | Vestoj
- The Heart Machine
- Thrillers
- Why Michael Pollan Is Wrong About Artisanal Food
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- The Loveless
- Blue Steel
- The Robots Are Winning! by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Our Pampered Wilderness
- The Thin Blue Line
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
- Three-Ten to Yuma, and Other Stories
- Don’t You (Forget About Me) - A Tribute to 80’s Teen Movies
- Orion Magazine | Landspeak
- Heat
- The Secret of Kells
- Sphinx
- The Inner Game of Tennis
- Carolyn Hax: A friend with seemingly everything still has time for fine whine
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High
- I was an undercover Uber driver
- Predestination
- The Insider
- Pitch Perfect
- Grizzly Man
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
- The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean on the magic and mystery of writing
- Wolf in White Van
- That Ominous Pulse
- True Grit
- Ex Machina
- The Fault in Our Stars
- Why Everyone's Saying 'YAAAAAASSSSSS' Now
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Town
- Ida
- I Walk Alone
- The Martian
- Peter Thiel on the Future of Innovation
- Mapped: How hard it is to get across U.S
- Obvious Button States — The Brooks Review
- I was out on a trip recently, and had been away from home for two weeks
- Furious 7
- Casablanca
- Erin Brockovich
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Social Network
- The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas
- I feel at ease with whatever will come
- Run All Night
- Mean Girls
- Blade Runner
- The Equalizer
- Wild
- Nebraska
- Lost in Translation
- Top Five
- Nightcrawler
- First Alan Adler Invented the Aerobie. Now He’s Created the Perfect Cup of Coffee
- A Bewildering Crash - The New Yorker
- Two pigeons at night
- How the Hawks are running away with the East
- Five escalators
- No Country for Old Men
- Shitphone: A Love Story
- I’ve had my dictaphone since the mid-to-late ’90s
- Fargo
- Badlands
- Conley Presler got a letter from Mr. Rogers
- That’s what’s so frightening
- Elisa Strozyk’s Wooden Textiles
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The art of the bug
- Gone Girl
- The invisible network that keeps the world running - BBC - Future
- A Professor Explains Why He’s Teaching College Kids About Kanye
- GQ&A: Kobe Bryant
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
- Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - The New Yorker
- Still Alice
- The Time of Our Singing
- Will Smith on Kids, Career, and Failure
- It’s Kind of Cheesy Being Green
- Haywire
- Lucy
- Sorry Please Thank You
- Batman Returns
- Aside from my notebooks about what I’m reading
- StrengthsFinder 2.0
- Rusty ain’t playing
- Texas: The Great Theft
- Blackhat and the Return of Michael Mann - MensJournal.com
- Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 158, Shelby Foote
- The Babadook
- On Sentimentality: A Critique of Humans of New York
- From 'American Sniper' to 'Macbeth,' a Reporter's Moviegoing Spree - NYTimes.com
- Step 1: Read this book. Step 2: Live a cool life
- ももへの手紙 (A Letter to Momo)
- The Myth and the Reality of the $43 Download | The Pitch | Pitchfork
- I just do things I really enjoy
- Making Peace With Music That Everyone Loves But You
- The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up
- Codes, chaos, and the world of Heat / The Dissolve
- American Sniper
- Whiplash
- Inherent Vice
- When once isn’t enough
- Selma
- The Devotion Leap - NYTimes.com
- Blackhat
- The Imitation Game
- Three generations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s family
- Boogie Nights
- An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media — The Message — Medium
- Big Hero 6
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- “READ A FUCKING BOOK” hacked LED street sign in downtown LA
- In a World...
- Hard Eight
- Grief is as unique as a fingerprint
- The Amazon order test as an algorithm for evaluating books
- Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye
- Give your past, present, and future selves influence in proportion
- “Have you made any New Year’s resolutions, Chuck?”
- All Is Lost
- Veronica Mars
- The Best Books I Read, 2014
- Meditations
- Cyberbooks
- Strange Days
- The One I Love
- Le Week-End
- The Ultimate David Lee Roth Karate Kick Compilation
2014
- Foxcatcher
- The Double
- Good Will Hunting
- Stills from Thief
- Killer Mike Explains Champagne in the South | First We Feast
- Stand By Me
- The Meaning of “Culture”
- A Christmas Story
- Taken 2
- Dark City
- Meek's Cutoff
- A Sense of Where You Are
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra
- The Fifth Element
- How You Know
- You Don’t Have To Be Pretty – On YA Fiction And Beauty As A Priority | The Belle Jar
- Enemy
- Thief
- Art*
- Nobody Is Ever Missing
- Why James Cameron’s Aliens is the best movie about technology
- Most decade-specific words in Billboard song titles, 1890–2014
- Stoner
- Tom Gauld is so good
- Out of Time
- Night Moves
- Live by the schedule as a gift to yourself
- The Dark Science of Pop Music
- The Dark Knight
- Jack Reacher
- Whatever makes it go in
- Finding Marlowe: Did this man inspire two of noir’s iconic fictional detectives?
- Quebec students asked to send police their protest route
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
- Beyond the Lights
- Interstellar
- Birdman
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- The Thin Man
- The Thin Man
- Since my son was born I realized: soon, he’ll be three-and-a-half
- When I lived in Christian places like Kansas and Texas
- Nightcrawler
- The exhibitors manual for 1947’s Out of the Past
- Write a Damn Blog (with tweets) · funkaoshi · Storify
- Vanguard after the Revolution: Bill James sparked a baseball insurrection, but he has regrets about the world he wrought
- Ten Short Rants About #GamerGate | Popehat
- That Catcalling Video and Why “Research Methods” is such an Exciting Topic (Really!)
- Why people cling to their hates so stubbornly
- The Frighteners
- William Gibson Has No Idea How the Future Will See Us
- China Moon
- John Wick
- Dark Days
- Dear White People
- Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns
- Inside Man
- Scream
- A Knight's Tale
- The Rise of the Fragmented Novel (An Essay in 26 Fragments)
- Chicago
- Is the sub-2 hour marathon imminent? Don't hold your breath, and here's why | The Science of Sport
- Super Sad True Love Story
- Gone Girl
- Gone Girl
- Express Yourself: NBA's Mike Scott Explains His Sweet Emoji Tattoos
- The Skeleton Twins
- Killing Them Softly
- Damian Lillard: This kid
- Today Was The First Saturday Without Saturday Morning Cartoons
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Dirty Love
- Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone - NYTimes.com
- The Equalizer
- The Internet Has a Problem(atic) - The Awl
- Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
- For Arianna Huffington and Kobe Bryant: First, Success. Then Sleep. - NYTimes.com
- David Hockney, ‘The Desk’
- Living the GoPro Life
- 15 Questions for San Antonio’s Matt Bonner
- Boring Lives, Boring Television
- Training Day
- McConaughey and Harrelson, BFFs
- Man on Fire
- We make ourselves lists in order to know if we think what we think
- Minority Report: The Real Problem of the Atlanta Hawks Implosion
- Serena Williams Is America’s Greatest Athlete
- The U.S. Open’s Federer-less Final - The New Yorker
- Louisiana Loses Its Boot — Matter — Medium
- The only autographed copy of Tim Duncan’s honors thesis!
- Blue Ruin
- Locke
- Imaginary Book #2
- The Strange Tale of the North Pond Hermit
- Note to self: awesome photos that I find online can be printed
- Don’t focus too much on this idea about your influences
- A Most Wanted Man
- Guardians of the Galaxy
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- The Keep
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- Casablanca, or, The Clichés are Having a Ball - Umberto Eco
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- If a work has something remarkable to say
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- The Cost of Higher Education — Crooked Timber
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- How a Smart Conservative Would Reform FEMA - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
- Dark Shadows
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- Apocalypse Now
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- "The Help" by Kathryn Fleishman
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- Lawrence of Arabia
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- Grizzly Man
- White Bread Kills: A history of a national paranoia.
- Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease - Salon.com
- The Girlfriend Experience
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- Colin Marshall › Portland Diary II
- Midnight in Paris
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- The Night of the Hunter
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- When people bypass simple solutions, there’s usually an ulterior motive
- The Case for Allowing Richard Wagner's Music to be Performed in Israel : The New Yorker
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- Los Angeles Review of Books - Happiness Is A Warm Glock: Paul Barrett On America’s Gun
- Why Books Are The Ultimate New Business Card | Fast Company
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- Why I Love Mormonism - NYTimes.com
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- Mystic Pizza
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- Warrior
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- I think of children sort of like Voyager probes
- The Terminator
- I know these are masterpieces
- The White Market – The New Inquiry
- Truth and falsity properly considered are properties of language, not of images
- The Informant!
- On PUBLIC ENEMIES. Part I: Charles Winstead, Mann’s Man « Cinema Truth
- Iron Man 2
- MELANCHOLIA or, The Romantic Anti-Sublime | SEQUENCE 1.1 (2012)
- Payback
- Alzheimer's could be the most catastrophic impact of junk food | The Guardian
- Surprise! It Is Easy to Crowdsource When You're Famous | The American Conservative
- The Light by Which You See
- The Long Two and Josh Smith | CourtVision
- n+1: Money
- Compliance
- Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky
- The stadium effect | Creative Loafing Atlanta
- Public Enemies
- Winter's Bone
- I feel like inspiring political moments are spank-material for typesetters
- Directors of the Decade No. 9: The sensualists - Salon.com
- Days of Heaven
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- Random! Postmodern Bio Blurbs » 3:AM Magazine
- Star Trek
- Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Ashley Anderson
- KNOWLEDGE + TASTE = MEANINGFUL JUDGMENT
- Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the history of the hillbilly in America. - Slate Magazine
- Millsin' About: Jiro Dreams of Errol Morris
- Kubrick // One-Point Perspective
- Miami Vice
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- The Sad Secular Monks | First Things
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- The Original Kings of Comedy
- Solaris (2002)
- What Does It Mean When Smartphones Replace Travel Guides? | The New Republic
- The Five Obstructions
- Why does the return journey feel quicker? - The Irish Times
- Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in Depression
- Observations on film art : Unsteadicam chronicles
- The Usual Suspects
- Blade Runner
- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake
- Out of the Past
- The Driver
- Meal entering vehicle window = tacky, suburban, boring, junk food
- Pallets: The single most important object in the global economy. - Slate Magazine
- Chiasmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mad Love: The Surrealism of the Supernatural Romantic Melodrama, Part One « The Third Meaning
- Striptease has become less interesting since they did away with the costumes
- Bloodsport
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- Contagion
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- Drive: Yellow light, red light, blue light, pink light - scanners
- Scott Higgins, Thinking Cinematically: Stallone, Expendables, and Color Today
- “Drive”: Memory Lane « The Third Meaning
- The Last of the Mohicans
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- Don’t Bring Policy to a Culture Fight | Easily Distracted
- Sleepers
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- The Boss Is Hungry: Every Food or Drink Name-Dropped in a Rick Ross Song
- Ronin
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- Summer Reading… and Programming
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- Felix: The weird NYT apologetic boast
- AUSTIN KLEON: Bob Ross's rivalry with his mentor, Bill Alexander: “He betrayed me!”
- BURNAWAY » From Picasso to Warhol to Sega: Ashley Anderson’s Shinobi Marilyn
- I would not mind having this in my house
- Notebook on Cities & Culture: San Francisco and Portland
- In-Use: FF Quadraat in ‘The Shape of Design’ – An interview with Frank Chimero
- The Minimalist - A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks - NYTimes.com
- Heat
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- On the Predominance of Cupcakes as a Cultural Form
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- The Big Heat
- Why We Fight: Uncomfortably Numb | Features | Pitchfork
- Hanna
- Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
- H ö vding Invisible Bicycle Helmet
- Why Our Elites Stink - NYTimes.com
- Tom Bissell reviews Spec Ops: The Line and explores the reasons why we play shooter games. - Grantland
- Haywire
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- The Fall
- The Millions: The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels
- Forms, styles, and structures should change like skirt lengths
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- The novels we know best have an architecture
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- LeBron James Is a Sack of Melons - NYTimes.com
- Online fraud: Blatancy and latency | The Economist
- Thinking Backwards — The Brooks Review
- Why My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is the greatest rock album of our greatness-averse age - Grantland
- “HERE LIES THE PERSON WITH THE UNIQUEST OPINIONS”
- The Believer - Beat Boutique
- The Medication Generation: Teenagers and Antidepressants - WSJ.com
- The IRL Fetish – The New Inquiry
- Hustle & Flow
- Dance the flip-flop - Robin Sloan
- The Prestige
- UC Berkeley Classics Department: 2009 Commencement Address by Daniel Mendelsohn
- What Nora Ephron Taught Me About Love In The Movies : Monkey See : NPR
- It Happens - David Fleming - ESPN.com
- Life is an extended dialogue with your future self
- Little Fugitive
- Love
- Calling this the funkiest bassline in the history of recorded music
- Does Wes Anderson hate dogs?: The New Yorker
- Religion for Atheists (review)
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- The Four Deadly Fallacies, Pathetic and Otherwise
- Age and experience will slowly whittle away at your dreams
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- The Godfather
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- Moonrise Kingdom
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- The best music makes you want to make your own
- Prometheus
- Zing!: What the New Science of the New Sciences Tells Us About Our Unquenchable Craving for the Illusion of Scientifically-Validated Insight | The Moral Sciences Club | Big Think
- Out of the Past
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- Wes Anderson’s Arrested Development
- Bosavi: Headlamp by Dan Freschl - Kickstarter
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- Captain America: The First Avenger
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- Another Earth
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- What we call a home
- Why do you always sit in the same place in meetings? - Barking up the wrong tree
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- The Hunger Games
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- God with magnificent irony / gives me at once both books and night
- À bout portant (Point Blank)
- Elaine in Seinfeld, Male Unbonding episode
- The worst argument Siskel and I ever had
- I dream about a kind of criticism that would try not to judge
- LEMMETWEETTHATFORYOU makes Twitter forgery simple and fast!
- Raging Bull
- Why I Hate The 'Goldberg Variations' : NPR
- In China, millions make themselves at home in caves - latimes.com
- Tucker & Dale vs Evil
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- The Thin Red Line
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- If you look inward and concentrate only on your own desires
- Erased de Kooning Drawing by Robert Rauschenberg
- Aliens
- Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression
- The first two or three minutes of any film are amazing
- Shame
- Let the facts write your dreams
- Detail from Monkeys by Hasegawa Tōhaku
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- Stephen Wolfram Blog: The Personal Analytics of My Life
- Words to Be Aware Of – Lone Gunman
- “Have you tried suffering?”
- n 1: Listening to Books
- Post-industrial creatures of an information economy
- You can get hooked on anything used to change how you feel
- Take Shelter
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- William Gibson referred to history as “that other form of speculative fiction”
- The Making of OutKast's Aquemini | Creative Loafing Atlanta
- Conspiracy theories and the occult comfort us
- Certified Copy
- Had the concept of software been available to me
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- Get Him to the Greek
- When we’re shown an image we tend to let our guard down
- Pocketful of Dough - gourmet.com
- Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and a midseason report on the Oklahoma City Thunder - Grantland
- Writers, it seems to me, should write, not make speeches
- Those Fabulous Confabs
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- How external cues make us overeat.
- Lists of Note: 10 Commandments for Con Men
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- As an artist you can sit and tinker with stuff forever
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- T-Men
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- Antichrist
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- Upping the Antihero – The New Inquiry
- Gilbert Arenas, Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the argument for signing Agent Zero - Grantland
- Rarely do I have any shittiness that stays shitty
- Eddie Murphy: The Rolling Stone Interview
- The Tree of Life
- Predictive analytics and information camouflage – The New Inquiry
- Envisioning a Post-Campus America - Megan McArdle - The Atlantic
- Sweet Smell of Success
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- The Bomb and the General by Umberto Eco
- The New World of William Carlos Williams by Adam Kirsch | The New York Review of Books
- Rita Hayworth - Gilda’s First Appearance
- The camera’s role in beautifying the world
- very small array » The Contemplative Juries of Law & Order, Season 1
- Gilda
- Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink – Marco.org
- Made Better in Japan - WSJ.com
- Basing your friendships on what people have to offer
- Insomnia
- My notes from Terry Gilliam’s 10 lessons
- The most adult decisions put severe limits on other options
- Visions of Light
- Extra Lives (review)
- What Facebook's IPO means for women | Penelope Trunk Blog
- Flight of the Concord: The perils of the recording studio by Jeremy Denk - The New Yorker
- Following
- I’m not very interested in political satire
- The point isn’t to achieve everything
- “25 years of Kylie Minogue in 17 minutes”
- Charles Murray on the New American Divide - WSJ.com
- The Spielberg Face
- Steven Spielberg's complete movies: I've seen every one, and I almost wish I hadn't - Slate Magazine
- Louis CK: Chewed Up
- That was the idiot hopefulness of humans, always to love what was unformed
- The Gauntlet
- Are people who dwell on their problems more creative? - Barking up the wrong tree
- We expect too much from January and not enough from February
- Hacking the Used Car Purchase « carsabi
- Don’t be dour about it
- The Joy of Tennis
- Mean Streets
- We know the cruelest of fanatics by their exceptionally clear consciences
- Amy Rebecca Klein: The Last Thing I'll Ever Write About Lana Del Rey
- Eli Manning's Burden | The Classical
- Alan Lomax’s dream of a global jukebox
- Me, Reading: In the Mind of a Subway Reader - The New Yorker
- Take Care of Your Choropleth Maps
- I owe my livelihood to technology
- Are There Fundamental Laws of Cooking?
- Red-Green & Blue-Yellow: The Stunning Colors You Can’t See
- The Authenticity Hoax (review)
- I’m almost annoyed when something I’ve been interested in becomes valuable
- The Iron Giant
- I was always somebody
- I have saved the world so many times in video games
- The Crowd
- Growing up in the American South in the early ’60s
- An interview with William Gibson | The Verge
- I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review
- Beginners
- Hibbert showcasing post-up fundamentals | NBA Playbook
- Do your work for six years; in the seventh, go into solitude
- Brick
- BrightestYoungThings: Futurenomics: The Tyler Cowen Interview
- The long sentence is how we begin to free ourselves
- Bill Cunningham New York
- thoughts on films: WGA 101 BEST SCREENPLAY LIST RECAP
- Gary Taubes on Dieting | FiveBooks | The Browser
- Introspection means talking to yourself
- Because You Asked About the Line Between Prose and Poetry by Howard Nemerov
- Children shred parental black-and-whites into gray confetti
- The New World
- A Prayer That Will Be Answered
- Turning words into touchdowns: Does a player's speech predict how he'll perform in the NFL? - Slate Magazine
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Meditations (review)
- Favorite movies of 2011
- Denial about how invested you are in a single outcome
- Hunger
- Uncouple your own grief from the hopes you pin on others
- A Different Take on Empathy | RyanHoliday.net
- Every time I come to work I feel like I’m starting a second life
- Louis CK Q&A - JonahWeiner.com
- Right on Cue - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
- Super 8 as an Allegory on the Triumph of Digital FX « Pancake Dominion
- The Gollum Effect
- Why We Stopped Spanking - Megan McArdle - The Atlantic
- Ending the Infographic Plague - Megan McArdle - The Atlantic
- The Language of Food: Entrée
- Wall Street
- Dumb and Dumber
- The Karate Kid (2010)
- The Karate Kid (1984)
2011
- mark larson | Favorite albums of 2011
- Favorite albums of 2011
- Maria Popova's Beautiful Mind - Mother Jones
- The Artist
- [Transcript] Tyler Cowen on Stories - Less Wrong Discussion
- Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens § SeedMagazine.com
- Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater
- People tend to think that creative work is an expression of a preexisting…
- Do Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way — Frank Chimero
- Tim Tebow and the Taxonomy of Clutch » Skeptical Sports Analysis
- Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide
- regularity, chicago
- How To Not Get Sick On An Airplane
- I Will Follow
- The Purple Rose of Cairo
- Embrace all change, not just change that benefits you
- Correlation or Causation?
- It’s so easy not to realize you’re under someone else’s influence
- How American food got so bad — Marginal Revolution
- Being cheerful is really no recipe to get down to work: nothing happens until…
- Landscape Absurdism: Las Vegas - Design - The Atlantic Cities
- Don’t Be A Free User - Pinboard Blog
- Damien Hirst prepares to unleash another round of art for buyers - latimes.com
- Magical Thinking - Psychology Today
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Bluebrain’s App Central Park (Listen to the Light) - NYTimes.com
- Cooking Food Featured in Fantasy Novels - WSJ.com
- Mesrine: L'instinct de mort
- Charts, graphs, and tables are on the decline
- You're Not Me: Nyjah Huston and Inflationary Spectacle | The Classical
- Your Mind Takes on the Character of Your Most Frequent Thoughts
- D.O.A.
- Other People’s Words Are the Bridge You Use to Cross
- Elf
- very small array » We sure like being the good guys
- If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people
- Music Students Hit the Boxing Ring - WSJ.com
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- They cannot admire you for intellect
- The Searchers - Each Time from Take Me for What I’m Worth
- The Fugitive
- The people who move to the suburbs aren’t nearly as stupid or careless…
- T.I
- Last Notes: The wild, sublime music that composers write on their deathbeds. - Slate Magazine
- It is ridiculous not to escape from one’s own vices, which is possible, while…
- Missing the Point | RyanHoliday.net
- Tom Bissell on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Grantland
- All things are short-lived–this is their common lot–but you pursue likes…
- I don’t give a fuck if you’re doin’ petty shit or big shit
- Tent that looks like a sandwich, among numerous other designs
- A Private Library Is a Universal Legacy Pretending to Be Individual
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- The body, too, should stay firmly composed, and not fling itself about either…
- My Pacific Crest Trail Moleskine Journals | The Hike Guy
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- The Makeup of Stuck America - The Atlantic Cities
- No more roundabout discussion of what makes a good man
- Badlands
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- Repulsion
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- No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future
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- What I've been reading, vol. iii
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- The Enthusiast - The Atlantic
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- Rashomon
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- It’s Friday night, and you’re home alone making Nutella
- LOVE BEGINS A PICTURE: An Anthology of Google Voice Transcriptions Formatted and Annotated As Poetry
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- Nuit Blanche - wow - visually, a very interesting short film… worth a watch
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- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News
- “Music for Pieces of Wood” by Steve Reich
- Moon
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- The Rules of the Game: A Fuller Thought on J. Hopper and Vampire Weekend
- The Happiness Project (review: 3/5)
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- Craig Schuftan: Hey! Nietzsche! Leave Them Kids Alone
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- Gjon Mili: Francoise Gilot, mistress of artist Pablo Picasso, with their young…
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- The relative relativity of material and experiential purchases
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- Michael Clayton
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- Cut This Story! - The Atlantic
- The Revolution Will Be Mapped
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- The Believer - O Biblioklepts!
- Sherlock Holmes
- Marginal Revolution: Advice for your children: 2010-2020
- One result of the internet, I think, is that it makes almost everyone smart…
2009
- The End of Solitude
- The Decade in Music Genre Hype
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- Bicycle Diaries (review: 3/5)
- The central failure of these interviews, like so many, is that they operate…
- elephant + panda shadowbox
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- On the Waterfront
- Amazing Bird Sounds from the Lyre Bird
- A Soul Train Line Dance to Fred Wesley & The J.B.’s
- I volunteered to serve food to the workers at Ground Zero after 9/11
- Winter / Albert Gumble [sheet music] - Library of Congress
- Favorite Albums of 2009
- Up in the Air
- The best films of 2009 - Roger Ebert's Journal
- from Margaret Bourke-White (photo) & Erskine Caldwell (text): You Have Seen…
- Copying Is Not Theft
- An Eroica Project
- FreeHarvardEducation.com - The Boston Globe
- The map that changed the world
- The crisis in performance is, I believe, based on one simple fact
- Having Fun With Elvis On Stage (1974)
- EDWARD PFIZENMAIER (B. 1926) Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York, 1954
- James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti - It’s a Man’s World
- Kirby dots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Yeasayer at Masquerade (Atlanta) on 6 Apr 2010 – Last.fm
- Bob Ross: Teacher, Painter, Optimist - PopMatters
- Someone from R.E.M
- Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years…
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- Before He Was King
- Cuno Amiet, Paysage de neige
- The War on Mediocrity - Heuristic roundup '09
- In Nicaragua
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- Soup of the Day
- Passacaglia in C Minor
- Organisation - Tone Float
- John Divola, Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert series, 1996-2000
- Wall Street conspiracy theories dissected, defined
- Is it Monday now?
- A book needn’t be an author’s life work; a squib of novel insight…
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- Doc Watson, age 16
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- Overcoming Bias: Key Disputed Values
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- The Wu-Note Project, as if the Wu-Tang Clan had appeared on Blue Note Records
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- Manhood for Amateurs (review: 4/5)
- Yeasayer — “Ambling Alp”
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- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
- A Sunny November Forecast for Decatur
- Trevor Clark ( @trevorclark), a guy I knew back in the old high school days…
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- Saudade
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived…
- The Art of Persuasive Writing highlighting selections from Bank Notes
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- Downtown Atlanta at Decatur Street and Peachtree – April 12, 1948
- The Big Sleep
- “Injun Summer,” by John T. McCutcheon, 1907
- Roger Ebert's Journal: The autumn leaves of red and gold
- Mondegreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Today’s Pictures: Remember the Record Shop?
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- Kevin Huizenga, “Postcard from Fielder”
- Bob Sutton: Selecting Talent: The Upshot from 85 Years of Research
- Photo by Vivian Maier
- Brook Farm group was among the first to hear Beethoven’s brilliance - The Boston Globe
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Paul McCartney Wake Up Call
- Extremists More Willing To Share Their Opinions, Study Finds
- Opening Credits to “Anatomy of a Murder”
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Everyday Tastes from High-brow to Low-brow
- Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
- The Van Gogh Letter Sketches
- Score for “Belle, Bonne, Sage” ( lyrics), a song with eye music by Baude…
- Unquiet Thoughts
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (review: 5/5)
- Trois Gnossiennes
- Serious Eats Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Storytime: Children tell their own tales
- Tom Phillips: Paintings and Drawings: Oh Those Reds
- The Album Covers of Brian Eno
- Lunch at the Dutch Haus in Montebello, Virginia
- To the Audience
- Brigitte Bardot - St. Tropez, France, 1958
- MAD MEN - “Have you ever been hunting?” I’m a latecomer to the best television…
- Ice Cube - then and now
- Joshua Blankenship | An Accounting of Joy vs. Cost while Vacationing
- Writing as real-time performance « Snarkmarket
- Newspaper blackout gratuitous unboxing
- Roman Holiday
- Peanuts, November 25, 1951
- The Believer - The Codex Seraphinianus
- Sydney police mugshots, 1912-1930
- Solaris (1972)
- Being Individuals in an Increasingly Individualistic Culture
- At least 1,500 years old, a 300-foot titan in California’s Prairie Creek…
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- Japanese drum notation for “Dienst Mars” (Service March) by Inukai Kiyonobu…
- Score for Clapping Music by Steve Reich
- Throne of Blood
- How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
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- Awesome Tapes from Africa
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- Bear Misfortune Nobly as Good Fortune
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- Buster Keaton and the railroad ties in “The General”
- The General
- In the Heat of the Night
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- There are three kinds of critics: those who have importance; those who have…
- Q. Does President Obama make for a good Auto-Tune?
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- Marginal Revolution: What is conservatism?
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- Les Paul’s early solid-body electric, “The Log”
- Guy Dupuy’s Ridiculous New Dunk
- Birds on the Wires on Vimeo
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- A walk in wintry woods, Stockholm, Sweden
- Nancy Pearl's The Rule of 50
- Exclusive First Listen: Yo La Tengo on NPR
- CANABALT
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- “If you pan & scan Lawrence of Arabia, you lose the desert.” (via kottke)
- The State of New Orleans by Nigel Holmes for the New York Times
- Some wisdom before school starts
- New Orleans
- When I gave to a beggar
- The first movement of Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor (BWV 1001)
- Dan Pink’s TED Talk on Motivation
- Edge: What makes people vote Republican?
- Making the Clackity Noise
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- Exclusive First Listen - Tim Buckley - NPR
- Tickets for the Great Decatur Craft Beer Festival go on sale soon
- Newsboys Strike of 1899, via one of the cool people I work with
- Dinner at El Bulli: The Greatest Restaurant in the World
- Respect the dance floor because the dance floor never lies
- SEVILLE, Spain—Feria Festival, 1986
- Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation on Ukraine’s Got Talent
- Art Tatum goofs around with Dvorak’s Humoresque No. 7 in G flat major
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- Vanity Fair Sheer Gown
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- Talking Head: Monday Night Brewery | Omnivore Atlanta
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- Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate
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- I Wake Up Screaming
- David Foster Wallace, on success
- Synesthesia on Vimeo
- Before College, Costly Advice Just on Getting In - NYTimes.com
- Gun Crazy
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- Old photos from the Festival of San Fermín
- David Foster Wallace Reads “Laughing with Kafka”
- Love, the camera, and the microphone
- Poets put lovers under trees, and nobody asks where that tree came from
- A Brief History of “Cool” | Fast Company
- Hazmat team removes suspicious package | ajc.com
- Love Is a Mixtape (review: 4/5)
- Carter Corsets, woman with stars and stripes background, by Victor Keppler
- James Brown - Mother Popcorn (1969)
- Surviving the Death Race - Video Library - The New York Times
- The Coolness Index
- Back cover of Can’t Slow Down
- Once the music plays, it creates me
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- Will Smith: The Keys to Life = Running & Reading
- MoMA | Jasper Johns
- Scott Weaver creates a San Francisco toothpick city
- Map of the original 1854 Atlanta Ward System
- Breaking news! Atlanta’s seedy past!
- My loving homage to every breathless unboxing video ever made
- My First Buster Keaton Film: One Week
- You know how you scratch away at a lottery ticket to see if you’ve won?
- Louis Armstrong, takin’ care of business without a shirt
- Balloon Land (1935) Ub Iwerks’ ComiColor cartoon
- I like the idea that you let culture use you as its instrument
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- Marginal Revolution: *Create Your Own Economy*, standing on one foot
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- Walla: The Murmur of a Crowd in the Background
- Oliver Sacks’ desk
- The Film Critic of Tomorrow
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- Found this in the Metropolis parking deck in a handicap spot of all places
- Shaq vs. Bynum
- Trash, Art, and the Movies
- Birmingham
- DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » Walking on Top of the High Line
- Mahler Trinkets via Alex Ross
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- Plaque with Medea’s Murder of Absyrtus by Martin Didier Pape
- I never think of anything as finished until it’s released
- SimplyNoise.com - The best free white noise generator on the Internet.
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- Charleston
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- Benny Goodman, 1958
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- Brian Eno — Music for Airports Interview
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- An Accident by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret
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- IHLE Schottenring Car, featured in the Microcar Museum in nearby Madison, GA
- Hindugrass — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC
- Infinite Summer
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- A favorite from Cliff Robert’s Book of Jazz
- Simmons + Gladwell
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- 35 Variations on a Theme from Shakespeare
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- An interesting bit from a David Foster Wallace reading circa Infinite Jest
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- Online monoculture and the end of the niche
- In which a metaphor is discerned
- Warhol on good art vs bad art
- I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under…
- The last bit from a 1993 interview with David Foster Wallace [pdf] in Whiskey…
- Stravinsky on remix and love
- The fifth issue of Ahhhhh Mega-Zine is ready for your enjoyment
- Why work more hours
- From an interview with Lynda Barry
- Electric Purgatory is a cool documentary about black musicians in rock
- Atlanta → Winston-Salem Last weekend I enjoyed a little trip from Atlanta…
- Michael Lewis writes about Iceland and the recent financial meltdown
- A Theory of Capitalism & Socialism (review: 4.5/5)
- Yeasayer has a blog while they work on the new album
- I love planning and organizing things so much that sometimes I’d rather not…
- About a dozen years ago, Björk interviewed composer Arvo Pärt
- Lowest quintile: 4.3 percent Second quintile: 9.9 percent Middle quintile…
- Doodling" may help memory recall"
- In an otherwise unremarkable interview with its inventor, I learned that Lenin…
- Dancing in the Dark: Race, Sex, the South, and Exploitative Cinema
- When Tyra Met Naomi, a look at racism in the fashion industry
- Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning, a short story by Donald Barthelme
- It's worth knowing about ten times as much as you ever use, so you can move…
- From an interview with Jimmy Carter
- Urban Spectacles makes handmade eyeglasses from exotic woods and other…
- Everything's amazing, nobody's happy
- Putting WALL-E up against Bolt and Kung Fu Panda rather than letting it…
- You didn't miss anything
- ATL → SFO And now for a long weekend on the other side of the States
- Hemispatial Neglect, or Hemineglect
- The Killers of Eden was a group of orcas off the coast of Australia that…
- American Nerd (review: 3/5)
- I like this idea of working up drum patterns via text editor
- I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop
- Miles on Miles (review: 4/5)
- Brian Eno, Thinking about Miles Davis in an un-Miles Davis like way
- Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville invented the Dreamachine, which I first heard…
- Over the course of more than a decade, Alan Pollack analyzed every Beatles song
- The 14-Second Work Year
- Yeah, you know, I stopped for a while
- You practice and you get better
- Connolly’s Number, the largest number of songs that you can realistically…
- DCPD Bangerz, Vol. 1
- Decatur to Baton Rouge to Lafayette to Decatur
- Great Opportunities Don’t Fall into Your Lap
- My favorite part from Randy Pausch's book, The Last Lecture
- Philip Glass is coming to Atlanta, and giving a couple talks just a few miles…
- How the city hurts your brain
- How Lil Wayne helped me survive my first year teaching in New Orleans
- The Joanna Newsom Transcription Project is pretty awesome
- The last sunset of 2008
- New Yorker profile of Will Oldham, whose music I've grown to love love love…
- Good news: back in October I wrote up my notes from Umberto Eco's lecture…
2008
- description Renoir: Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre
- coming to speak at Kennesaw State University
- Is it Art?, an essay on videogames
- One day backstage in the '30s, Larry, Shemp, and Moe were playing cards
- Tonight I was thinking I'd love to hear hip hop that samples bluegrass music
- How to make a $10 macro photo studio light tent thing
- GeorgiaBankRobbery.com
- "Science fiction lovers tend to be closet romantics"
- illustration of Gustav Mahler conducting, by Hans Schliessmann
- collection of McLuhanisms
- Peter Sellers Gives a Rendition of “Hard Day’s Night”
- The twelve composers of Christmas
- A tip is like…what?
- Favorite Albums of 2008
- photo of Stravinsky
- Charlie Rose talks with Steve Coll about The Bin Ladens
- Patrick Stewart talks about baldness
- The Bin Ladens (review: 5/5)
- Emmet Connolly collected a bunch of worthy quotes
- I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes
- Crisis & Leviathan (review: 5/5)
- Scandal is our growth industry
- Batter my heart
- Doctor Atomic at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
- Crushing Krisis
- Carp Leaping Up a Cascade by Katsushika Hokusai
- A map of the world showing the most recent piracy incidents at sea
- negative review of Malcolm Gladwell's newest book, Outliers
- "All language, at some level, is body language"
- How to Build an Economic Model in Your Spare Time
- If, as a westerner
- Joy of Dullness
- The history of the weekend and how it's changed our culture of leisure
- Turtle, by Kay Ryan
- “How Did You Become a Poet?” “Reluctantly”
- The History of Visual Communication
- Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley, California
- Play creates order, is order
- An interesting aside from photographer Michael David Murphy's Against Ease
- Austin's post about the new house has some of the more poignant
- Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall by Henry Bursill
- I recommend Wieland Samolak's 1993 album, Steady State Music
- RjDj uses your iPhone and the environment you're in to make soundscapes, etc
- Forty Four Presidents, a minicomic
- E.O. Wilson on "Darwin and the Future of Biology"
- It's the Economy, Stupid!
- primer on the subprime mortgage crisis
- How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (review: 3.5/5)
- There are small human heads in these heads of broccoli
- the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is giving away a symphony every day
- Daniel Mendolsohn
- The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 (review: 3/5)
- NPR's 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century
- RogueApron soup line
- Umberto Eco on "How I Write"
- A Romance on Three Legs (review: 4/5)
- interview with Anthony Bourdain
- A place called Sandar
- The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, via Austin Kleon
- A little plant
- Super Spy (review: 3.5/5)
- I don't avoid repeating myself
- 9 ways to use space in your presentation
- Let’s make a trailer for what that movie would look like
- Reason Magazine has a great illustrated flowchart showing how hard it is
- Appalachian Pages
- The latest MacArthur Fellows got their genius grants today
- Mike Clelland's illustrations are relentlessly cheerful
- Mike Clelland and another NOLS instructor demonstrate proper backcountry poopin
- A House by the Park
- A waterfall called Gullfoss
- A street called Njarðagata
- A street called Njar??agata
- Vacation
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Trouble the Water
- George Carlin's last interview is really good
- Chandler Burr currently writes about perfume for the New York Times
- Poetry 180 is Billy Collins' poem-a-day selections for high schoolers
- Noticing... curating... caring
- RogueApron is Atlanta's independent speakeasy and supperclub
- Deciding whether to read a book
- A fisherman at home
- Common phrases in Icelandic
- Pocket Poem
- Hands on a Hard Body
- Vacation
- A Day in the Life of a Musician by Erik Satie
- record covers from Blue Note Records
- Weekly muxtape, heartbeat edition
- Blackberries
- Is it harder to write a sonnet than a great hip-hop verse?
- The Best American Science Writing 2007 (review: 3/5)
- Sculptor Richard Serra gave the 2008 commencement speech at Williams College
- The effects of hair parts on the 2008 Presidential race
- First there was Easy Cheese and now there's spray dog food
- Something to shoot for
- the cruel and the kind
- The Public School
- Weekly muxtape, unusual edition
- New York Times article about boredom
- Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed Edition
- Why we love a good yarn
- Weekly muxtape, daybreak edition
- My 100th Book Review
- Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (review: 4/5)
- The Collapse of This City's Community
- It All Ends
- Igor Stravinsky
- Against Intellectual Property
- Remembering the genius whom Stanley Kubrick stole music from
- George Orwell has a blog
- A worthy bit from The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
- Innocent people should never talk to the police
- Weekly muxtape, inclement weather edition
- photos of a leopard killing a crocodile
- Some nice visual storytelling by the woman
- More bad parking/driving
- Simply Noise generates white noise and pink noise
- I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter
- Medical students
- Robert Frost on creative growth
- Going shampoo-free sounds kind of cool
- Garr Reynolds talking about presentation design & delivery
- I stumbled on a video of Glen Velez playing a frame drum
- Weekly muxtape, never edition
- How to be a snob when drinking alcohol: There are guidelines
- A picture of the Jefferson Bible
- drawing on Cowrock Mountain
- Star Wars Kid
- András Schiff’s Lectures on Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
- Weekly muxtape, citrus edition
- Classical and pop reviews 2
- The origin of creative juices
- Weekly muxtape, dream edition
- Sibelius Monument
- a comic with five randomly generated endings
- FATS Forty 40-Mile Ultra Trail Run
- pictures of rare clouds
- Standard Operating Procedure (review: 4/5)
- Edward Bawden's artwork at BiblioOdyssey
- HARPERCOLLINS TO PUBLISH COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT POEMS!
- Dan Roam has shared the Napkin Tools from his book
- I stumbled on a couple music reading lists on Amazon
- Singing, Ringing Tree
- Tsar Bomba was the biggest man-made explosion we've ever had, back in 1961
- Dave Barry on college
- Anarchist Theory FAQ
- A Film Based on Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
- The Luzzone dam in Switzerland has been made into a climbing wall
- profile of Billy Goat
- milk jugs are being redesigned for better efficiency
- Selections from a few personal ads in the New York Review of Books
- Classical vs. pop music reviews
- King Corn
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (review: 2.5/5)
- George Carlin on living life in reverse
- Indeed, this is the cutest thing I've seen today
- Rob Giampietro started a collection
- How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
- I'm joining the group working up to 100 push-ups over the next few weeks
- Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me (review: 2/5)
- Josh Brolin on working with the skimpy dialogue in No Country for Old Men
- No Country for Old Men (review: 4/5)
- MagCloud is a new print-on-demand service just for magazines
- The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain
- Drivers of cars with bumper stickers
- Dallas, TX
- Restatement of Romance
- The "thirteen ways" meme
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
- The Snow Man
- Joshua Heineman
- This Is Just to Say
- I lied in my ad. I hate Wallace Stevens
- Stevens' grandeur is an inch away from absurdity, if not in the thick of it
- parking meters force people off the sidewalk
- The Brave Man
- Bring on the Wallace Stevens
- New Wearable Feedbags Let Americans Eat More, Move Less
- Old photos from the Brooklyn Museum
- New York Times Magazine has a feature on guerrilla gardening
- The Big Picture
- the greatest anti-poverty campaign the world has ever known
- Travels with Herodotus (review: 3.5/5)
- Photos of celebrities playing table tennis
- A wiki with a list of academic blogs divided by field
- Men Made Out of Words
- I like the idea of a corporate artist in residence
- Bedřich Smetana in a Czech Beer Commercial
- La Scala is going to stage an operatic version of An Inconvenient Truth
- survey of conducting styles
- It Is Upsetting to Conclude That Someone Is “Simply a Bastard”
- The New Kings of Nonfiction (review: 3/5)
- Radiohead Not for Profit gathers live recordings, concert bootlegs, etc
- Jonathan Raymond
- Iron Man' doesn't seem to know how seriously most superhero movies take
- An audio slideshow about competing in the Barkley Marathon
- Masterpieces are not single and solitary births
- Baseball is poetic
- Fringe just finished up their first season
- Poetry and the Microphone
- The Back of the Napkin (review: 3.5/5)
- The Birth Clock is a fragile glass object containing a digital clock that is
- Meetings are like an opiate with a network effect
- Writers really do die young
- David Rakoff, who swore off TV in college
- Gerd Arntz Web Archive
- Rob Giampietro is blogging via postcard this week
- If Charles Joseph Minard were following the Clinton/Obama superdelegate battle
- Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (review: 5/5)
- Return to Richardson, Spring 1981
- Michael Pollan talked with Google last month
- Playing the Building
- Also via DesignNotes, a new Flickr group for Tables of Contents
- Nothing happened today
- Then!
- Alex Ross writes about the life and music of John Luther Adams
- interview with Bill Bishop
- interview with Richard Price in the Believer
- Comic strip instructions for anarchic overthrow of the office
- PLEASE STOP MOWEING YOUR LAWN SO EARLY
- Gemma Bovery (review: 4/5)
- Opolis is a comic made from photographs of paper cut-outs in a 3-dimensional
- Against Happiness (review: 2.5/5)
- Mine Rescuer
- There's a lot of music in the world
- Scenes from the Inman Park Festival parade
- Graphing the accepted spelling of "ThunderCats, ho!"
- How We're Wrecking Our Feet
- The Most Wanted Song and the Most Unwanted Song
- A collection of 100 great opening lines
- The Well-Dressed Man With A Beard
- The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2007 (review: 3.5/5)
- John Mark Harris
- ROTHKOesque, a group of photos with Mark Rothko-ish qualities
- A video of Bob Becker playing some novelty xylophone tunes with a college group
- Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- Audio and video from the New York Public Library is now on iTunes
- We're just trying to see what happens
- Dave Gray teaches how to draw a stick figure
- America's political class is far worse
- 10 Things I Have Learned, Milton Glaser's life lessons
- Eddie Murphy riffs on wanting McDonald's food when you were a kid
- How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (review: 3/5)
- Shakespeare in the Bush
- The New York Times writes about the upcoming collaboration between Big Boi
- diagram of every sentence in On the Road
- Atlanta Pecha Kucha
- Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof
- interview with Philip Gourevitch
- fictional Paris Review Interview with Constance Eakins
- The Atlanta Film Festival starts next week
- Der Weg der Menschen (review: 3/5)
- The Thurber & White send-up on the knee phenomenon
- Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (review: 5/5)
- A list of people who worked while standing
- The seven deadly words of book reviewing
- Frans Masereel
- Science confirms the runner's high, which used to be just folk wisdom
- Really enjoyed the Frontline feature Bush's War
- The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
- Frans Masereel in Film
- Some behind-the-scenes video journalism from North Korea
- Adelbert Ames One of a few linocuts of Confederate & Union officers
- Die Stadt (review: 3.5/5)
- There Will Be Vader made my morning today
- Die Sonne (review: 4/5)
- Shop Class as Soulcraft
- You Are Not Dead: A Guide to Modern Living
- The Stylophone is a pocket-sized organ you play with a stylus
- tornado drinking game
- Atlanta Ballet announced the 2008-2009 season
- tabla lessons by Venkat
- ambient Skype
- You want to be able to produce a lot of joy, a paper joy
- From an interview with Christian Landers, he of Stuff White People Like
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Recent photos of the Atlanta tornado
- farcical English translation, with soundtrack, of O Fortuna
- The Definitive Drucker (review: 2.5/5)
- A Slideshow of Wrecked Exotic Cars
- The U.S. Terrorist Watch List Has More Than 900,000 People
- The earliest known photo of Helen Keller, pictured in 1888 with Anne Sullivan
- Customizable graph paper
- A tour of a 100-square-foot house
- Sleeper.
- Little Fluffy Clouds
- Florian-Hart residence
- ordinary things
- two areas have a 1000% difference in household income levels
- A video of the total lunar eclipse we had a while back
- Tony Danza Reads “The Barber’s Unhappiness”
- Business on the back of the napkin
- A list of obsolete skills
- The Story of Stuff, a big-picture overview of consumption
- Scott Rosenberg is giving away paperback editions of his book, Dreaming in Code
- A three-year-old summarizes the original Star Wars movie
- Email Apnea
- Women can say stuff like, I loved him, I really, really loved him
- Chuck Klosterman
- Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library (review: 3/5)
- Live performance in the age of supercomputing
- Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America (3.5/5)
- The worst parking I've ever seen
- democracy is a very blunt instrument
- When characters in books get hit, they tend to get hit in the solar plexus
- The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese (review: 3/5)
- Selections from the 1962 Sears Christmas catalog
- Stuff White People Like ---I find this highly amusing
- Chigurh vs. Plainview
- Leopold Stokowski
- An economic perspective on long-distance relationships
- Why Mars & Venus Collide (review: 3/5)
- Michael Pollan
- I like these clothes hangers, simple leather balls tethered to the wall
- If Osama is only 6 degrees away, why can't we find him?
- A strong critique of The King of Kong
- (What I learned about craftsmanship in) The Violin Maker (review: 4/5)
- The brown note is (supposedly) the ultra-low
- Political Candidates Talking About “Change”
- It is important to use your hands
- The Braindead Megaphone (review: 4.5/5)
- Alex Ross writes about Johnny Greenwood's soundtrack for There Will Be Blood
- Heather Armstrong has a book coming out in a few months
- Clinton/Obama handshake controversy
- Photos of stuffed animals turned inside out
- The Carter Center is hosting a photography exhibit by Robert Glenn Ketchum
- The Catcher in the Rye
- taming iTunes for classical music
- An essay on the past and the future of marriage
- Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
- Memery
- One of the more cringe-inducing uses of quotation marks
- Dining with Notebook Manifesto
- Charlie Rose talks with Alex Ross
- A 360-degree view from the top of Mount Everest
- interview with Ellen Lupton
- he calls himself and leaves a voice mail
- Terry Gross interviewed Chuck Close a couple years ago
- reducing total expenditure on presidential elections
- Arnold Kling on politics and cults
- Power-Line Electromagnetic Fields Make Fluorescent Tubes Glow
- 32% of the New Yorker's fiction came from 14 different authors
- tracking how much money a garden will save
- Unseen Forces: Electronic Music by Atlanta Composers
- Nick Hornby interviews David Simon, of The Wire fame
- Apparition of the Eternal Church
- A video montage of almost all the uses of Turbo Boost
- Clyde Fans: Book One (review: 5/5)
- Ah, privilege
- interview with Seth and Chris Ware conducted by Ivan Brunetti
- Chip Kidd interviews Milton Glaser
- What have you changed your mind about? Why?
2007
- Top Books for 2007
- Top Music for 2007
- The Road (review: 5/5)
- H.G. Wells on Bicycles and Hope
- Cloze, reading, learning, life
- Fun with Flickr stats
- A long essay on why crunch mode doesn't work
- How to create an extreme overhang with toy bricks [$]
- An interview with theologian John Haught
- Wikipedia has a reference desk
- From the Rope Swing Manifesto
- I don't know how anyone can try to be universal
- New poll shows correlation is causation
- policies to encourage professors to help students complete the dissertation
- Lapham's Quarterly looks like a worthy new periodical
- Merriam-Webster's words of the year
- Reuters Pictures of the Year for 2007
- Tumblr and tumblogs are great, but the attribution can be shoddy
- Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (review: 3.5/5)
- Photos of Paris during the floods of 1910
- The Twitter Curve
- Neil Gaiman helped one of his fans propose at a book signing
- The Happenstance
- Humans are evolving
- The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks is one of my favorite regular reads
- Groan I don't know where the nonist found this image
- Geometry of Circles
- Yesterday I stumbled on the I Want to See That!
- You Don't Love Me Yet (review: 3.5/5)
- A map of where all the blondes are in Europe
- Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America
- Today I learned the word musterbation at LifeClever
- Parkinson's Law
- The secret to raising smart kids
- Art has no shortcuts, folks
- woodcuts from the Otto Nückel book, Destiny: A Novel in Pictures
- The Web that Wasn't
- The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (review: 5/5)
- The erotic appeal of the Land's End catalog
- Phillip Larkin in the Paris Review
- Paris Review Interviews, I
- A plea for more anthropology of ideology
- A profile of William Langewiesche
- Here's an interesting idea: setting an end-date for your blog
- newly-discovered photos of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg
- The Cassini spacecraft has recently taken some fantastic photographs of Saturn
- Ze Frank on feeling uninspired
- An excellent essay on John Updike and the work of book reviewing
- interviewer Charlie Rose has an amazing online archive
- My awesome run the other night
- A Whole New Mind (review: 2.5/5)
- E.M. Forster on Story and Plot
- Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan 99 (review: 3/5)
- Reader and writer are in jail together
- LibX for Emory University Libraries
- A video of lions vs. crocodile vs. water buffalo
- How clean is the electricity I use?
- The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed (review: 3.5/5)
- Top Shelf Productions
- Business Week
- Woody Allen on Looking for Love at Museums
- Is it me, or is there subversive body language in this Apple promo video?
- Oboiler has a little picket fence for your baseboards to hide wires and cords
- Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (5/5)
- In children and adolescents, low self-esteem increases materialism
- Advice to keep in mind while ring-shopping
- Man, The Rest Is Noise was a great book
- why famous musicians don't put out as much music
- A couple weeks ago, NPR hosted an awful interview with Sigur Ros
- Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean (review: 4/5)
- George W. Bush is a hipster
- playing unfettered
- My Walk Score Went from 3 to 77
- Helvetica, the film
- 1003
- A long and awesome article about the Self-Transcendence 3100
- "I saw the girl of my dreams on the subway tonight." A New York success story
- Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains
- In ninth grade I looked like Gollum
- Air Guitar Nation is a recent film about the U.S
- Liz Danzico analyzes the closing phrases we use in e-mail
- Before a game of tournament
- things other people accomplished when they were your age
- A note from Management
- A Rothko book
- A friend at work got a RipStik
- article about The Wire
- Making Memes
- when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace
- Errol Morris' long, three-part investigation of a Roger Fenton photograph
- Passive-aggressive notes
- The calculus of saying I love you
- Undisciplined reading
- Doing the task and doing the task better become one and the same thing
- Why It's Hard to Get Ready for Work
- La Jetée
- Projects.txt
- The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross I've been pining for this book since March
- Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself, a woodworking guide by Dale Power
- Theatre directors don't review plays
- Most of the online designeurotic t-shirt selling craze gives me
- The Superest
- The Organization Kid
- Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature
- NPR story on the names on paper bags
- I like Twain in small doses
- Leonardo Delafuente and Anderson Augusto
- He's Just Not That Into You (review: 4/5)
- Rands tested some pens to try to find that perfect feel
- The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse (review: 1.5/5)
- National Novel Writing Month starts in less than two weeks
- BibliOdyssey
- track what people are saying about libraries
- Hipster olympics
- A poem lamenting (and embodying) the quirks of English pronunciation
- So if the worst came to pass, Atlanta could be without water 4 months from now
- Photos of vintage cereal box packaging!
- Local Cities, Global Problems: Jane Jacobs in an Age of Global Change
- Soth's lecture for Atlanta Celebrates Photography
- Sasha Frere-Jones discusses how indie rock lost its soul
- National Parks Service is making more realistic maps
- Sarajevo Siege Map
- Photos of people and their breakfast
- An interview with Alex Ross
- Seattle Freeze
- Music visualization designs made from spiral spectrograms
- Albert Jay Nock, Anarchist's Progress
- A couple artists are selling paintings of things they want
- A timeline of things that have gone or will go extinct from 1950-2050
- The Best American Comics 2006 (review: 4/5)
- painting of Ivan Tsarevich and the Firebird
- Antartica and its ocean at the center
- The Elements of Style (review: 3/5)
- Alex Ross talks with Robert Siegel on NPR about 20th century music
- essay on tragedy, comedy, and the modern novel
- In praise of Los Angeles
- Reader submissions for album covers for Radiohead's album, In Rainbows
- Alec Soth Lecture at the High Museum
- Scott Underwood and Merlin Mann talk about productivity stuff
- photos of an oceanside cliffwalk in Chile
- The use of the hyphen is on the decline
- How to write about Africa
- photo collection of the Space Alphabet
- Wikipedia essays
- NYT article about fashion
- Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes
- Bayeux Tapestry online with explanatory notes
- A slideshow essay on Slate asks, What's the point of public sculpture?
- The Devil in the White City (review: dnf)
- Apparition of the Eternal Church
- Summer Blonde
- Evolution of a Hip, Ironic Catchphrase: Don't tase me, bro!
- Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture (review: 2/5)
- Tobias Frere-Jones
- Street Mattress collects photos of abandoned mattresses
- Mozart once wrote a little party song titled Leck mick im Arsch
- One of the latest Art House projects is the Pen Pal Painting Exchange
- Haile Gebrselassie set a new marathon record a couple days ago: 2:04:26
- lovely little piece about Radiohead's new album
- Waldo Jaquith illustrates the size of our nuclear arsenal
- Alan Nelson links to a collection of Stephen Hawking's lectures and colloquia
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (review:3.5/5)
- Virginia Quarterly Review
- It's October, which means it's time for Atlanta Celebrates Photography
- An old commercial with the Flintstones advertising Winston cigarettes
- Blade Runner
- A Memory of Light
- Kevin Cornell
- Flannery O'Connor's androgynous prayer
- art-history, and in fact the rest of the humanities, were useless disciplines
- The letters of Flannery O'Connor and Betty Hester
- I love me a good disco nap
- Bonobos are in the news again
- A polar bear plays with a husky
- H.L. Mencken on Why He Never Lectures
- We've got a new batch of MacArthur Fellows
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Wikimindmap maps out the subtopics and links in Wikipedia articles
- These bed sheets have markings to let couples know who is hogging
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (review: dnf)
- The:- emoticon is now 25 years old
- Clothundrum, noun
- BBC has a set of recordings of Ansel Adams talking about his work
- great interviews of the 20th century
- Someone took fantastic notes from an Edward Tufte seminar last month in Chicago
- recordings from the 2007 Singularity Summit
- Khoi Vinh made a flowchart for how his dog thinks
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (review: 4/5)
- The Book on the Bookshelf (review: 4/5)
- time-lapse video of her cartooning process
- Over in Athens, Georgia you can find the Tree That Owns Itself
- (mis)use of typography in the Toronto subway system
- You have been warned that you will not be warned
- A cool project from the mind of Jen
- Brian Dettmer
- Todd Klein has written a 5-part series on the evolution of the Batman
- The 4 Hour Workweek (review: 3/5)
- etymology drawings
- I wish I was going to VizThink '08
- Layer Tennis
- Male Unbonding
- interview with Seth Godin
- Personal MBA Recommended Reading List
- Ian Belcher writes about a week at a colonic spa
- William Carlos Williams
- Helvetica is finally coming to Atlanta in November, courtesy of AIGA-Atlanta
- Galileo's sunspot illustrations
- How to Be Creative
- Constrained writing
- Fibonacci skit
- One of my weekend projects: a dress shirt photo collection
- Personal Injury Warning System
- The King of Kong
- Links aren't life
- Jason Kottke has come back to work
- A critical analysis of quirk
- An introduction to OpenType
- I love writing letters
- Matthew Stibbe suggested some writer's reference sites
- 72 ideas to simplify your life
- I would very much like to own a Monome 256
- An interview with Michael Cook
- You don't need a plan, you need skills and a problem
- We're making great progress in information design for coffee lovers
- G. K. Chesterton
- picnicking with your hover station wagon
- Those mechanical models of the solar system are called orreries
- The greatest classical cd album covers ever
- I love the library
- Stripping down, cleaning up
- Guild of American Papercutters
- The Indexed analysis of gym class
- Georgia Guidestones
- graphic exploring the connected approaches of the Specialist and the Generalist
- Paris, je t'aime
- ATL Creatives is all about what creative people are up to in Atlanta
- interview with expert calligrapher Bernard Maisner
- Cosmopolis (review: 1/5)
- This American Life: “Blame It on Art”
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
- Alright, here's a rendition of my own personal info-designer chart
- In Believer Magazine
- Seven Types of Ambiguity (review: 3.5/5)
- What it takes to be an information designer
- Kurt Vonnegut on where the writers are:
- Del.icio.us is giving away free stuff, stickers and bookmarks and what-not
- My employer has a new blog, BrainStuff
- I just started reading The 4-Hour Work Week
- A brief little comedy routine about how not to use Powerpoint
- Bruce Schneier interviews the head of the TSA, Kip Hawley
- One of my ongoing fascinations is with sense of scale
- American propaganda posters from World War II
- A brief interview with William Gibson
- 2007 Portable Film Festival
- Steve Martin interviews Roz Chast
- A very cool bit of wisdom from Hugh MacLeod
- Amazon interview with Douglas Wolk
- Octavo publishes old, significant books in digital form
- The Dvorak Zine is a 24-page web comic about the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
- David Lewis bemoans the comics memoir
- Lots of good stuff for sale at Coudal's Swap Meat
- TMN has a great photo gallery up: Still Life by Martin Klimas
- monitor calibration
- A photo collection of handmade, miniaturized synthesizers from yesteryear
- A little splash of color
- The story of Clearview
- The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop
- The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture
- Mental Note: Imitate Richard Weston and make a sky collection
- The Plot: The Secret Story of the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (review:3/5)
- Alex Ross noticed that everything is dead
- Schedule C table of Principal Business or Professional Activity Codes
- The Atlanta Time Machine
- One Man Star Wars
- I want these curtains
- Billy Collins
- James Brown does a short dance demonstration
- ultra-condensed summary of Beowulf
- Beowulf (review: 2/5)
- Here's an analysis of the economy of Second Life
- Emily Gordon responds to David Denby's essay on modern film romance
- The New York Times has a new tower to work in
- Khoi Vinh posted a brief interview with Stephen Coles
- Photographs from the Arkansas State Prison, 1915-1937
- Anil Dash noticed the recent popularity of pixel graphs
- Plastic Man: Rubber Bandits (review: 5/5)
- Recordings from the World Livestock Auctioneer Championships
- Photos of abandoned asylums
- Alphabetical artwork emphasizing the spaces between
- The Thing Quarterly
- Steven Pinker writes in defense of dangerous ideas
- The Paris Review Interviews, Volume I (review: 4.5/5)
- If I Vanished
- He Filmed His Own Assassination
- Mises University is happening this week at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
- good profile
- Time may not exist
- Your spreadsheet has been attacked
- The enterprising folks at Art House Co-op have launched The Sketchbook Project
- taxonomy of logical fallacies
- There's a Star Trek wiki, almost 26,000 articles
- Four filmmakers are traveling the world in search of pick-up soccer/football
- Walk Score rates where you live
- Sofa Free is a photo collection of sofas left up for grabs
- Merlin Mann talking to Google employees about Inbox Zero
- Spook Country
- pixelated jewelry
- cool posters from the Works Progress Administration
- Items We Carry
- Holy smokes, I forgot my anniversary
- Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload
- Here's 1500 or so prisoners dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller
- Plates from George Catlin's 1844 North American Indian Portfolio
- Paris Review Interviews, Volume I
- A simple infographic about Snape's cultural/emotional heritage
- Sean calls it Pötterdämmerung
- An open letter to Subway regarding cheese placement
- On Flickr, Milo Manara's very graphic cartoon timeline of mankind
- Jane Austen enthusiast ripped a few chapters from her books
- quiet structure
- If you cut up a large diamond into little bits
- brain-stretching discussion
- What If Earth’s Topography Were Reversed?
- There's an interesting series on homosexuality in comics in one
- Whither our literary arbiters?
- I had a chance to see the big Richard Serra exhibition at the MoMA this summer
- Animal Farm (review: 0/5)
- choose-your-own-adventure story artfully stenciled on the sidewalks
- Mickey Smith's photographs of bound journals
- five sentences or less
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
- A taxonomical study of desserts
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (review: 4/5)
- The typological array’s inherent ability to depict prevalence
- illustrations of bearded guys
- And I'm back
- And I'm gone...
- Videos of mass human choreography at the Arirang Festival in North Korea
- An interview with Chris Ware
- I quite enjoy meat cookies... maybe I need to try meat cake as well
- Might need this one day: 101 essential freelancing resources
- An interview with Joanna Newsom
- Francis Tapon is going to attempt to yo-yo the Continental Divide Trail
- A long, excellent interview with Steven Johnson
- The Oregonian newspaper is publishing its daily photos on Flickr
- Some old photos of shelters in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- I like David Seah's idea of using a pickle jar to tame distractions
- New Yorker article about Parkour
- OCLC Top 1000
- A long essay exploring Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
- An interview with Scott McCloud
- A nice little article about Helvetica in the IHT
- Time for a Vacation
- Writers need editors: They remind you that your writing is not fragile
- I'm enjoying Riding Giants
- Powers of Ten film
- Next time I'm in Seattle, I'll have to remember to stop by the Wall of Gum
- profile of Albert Einstein
- I just found Moon River a few days ago
- Doc Searls talks about how to save newspapers
- Some tribute/rip-off album covers from the world of hip-hop
- called out Oprah Winfrey
- Collective Type Project
- Batman: Year 100 (review: 2/5)
- I think the anthology of Missed Connection Comics could be pretty cool
- Heroic secret service agent takes question intended for Bush
- The Trouble with Physics (review: dnf)
- The Turk was a novelty chess-playing machine hoax
- The Knockoff Project tracks album cover spoofs, tributes, & rip-offs
- A list of male singers known for using the falsetto range
- sense of scale
- A video of photos of circular things
- A pretty cool collection of experimental thumb pianos
- A few illustrations from early version of the Monopoly board game
- Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- An interview with Jonathan Lethem
- A0 magazine is a photojournal
- The Starfish & the Spider (review: 3/5)
- A brief interview with Alex Ross
- Some friends of mine started a cheese blog
- Here's the bike-dancing scene from the Kevin Bacon movie Quicksilver
- Dunbar's number
- makes these sweet lamps from thin birch wood
- havent slept in 105 hrs
- Interaction of Color (review: 4.5/5)
- I'm Too Sad to Tell You, a collection of self-portraits of people in tears
- Photos from the Eighth Annual Harbin Ice and Snow World in Harbin, China
- Etched in Stone
- The Bibliochase is both a chair and a bookshelf
- David Friedman did these sketches of people enjoying libraries
- full set of scans from the book on Flickr
- The Enlightened Bracketologist: The Final Four of Everything
- makers of Splenda have bought off hundreds of negative domain names
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Hot dogs, filled with cheese, wrapped in bacon, deep fried
- Here's a collection of newspaper masthead clip art from the time of China's
- Alex Ross has a book coming out this fall
- whatsinyourbag
- Some interesting thoughts on the future of libertarianism from Virginia Postrel
- LifeClever compiled 17 interviews with David Allen
- Whitney Music Box
- Cinema Redux
- The political cartoons of Dr. Seuss
- Wow, 101 versions of Stairway to Heaven
- A collection of old comic-strip style advertising
- Open Architecture Network
- The Surrogates (review: 4/5)
- A fascinating story of pranking the 2007 Super Bowl half-time show
- I like this collection of photographs called Wee Planets
- Detour Exhibition
- There's a fairly good profile of Edward Tufte in the current Stanford Magazine
- Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void wrote a manifesto on creativity over at ChangeThis
- Twittervision lets me act like Big Brother, and other people do all the work
- An essay on student expenses in graphic design schools
- twenty basic plots
- From an excellent New Yorker article on the history of dueling
- Tom Swifty is a kind of wordplay
- The California Milk Processor Board collects the top 100 rip-offs of their Got
- When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It (review: 3.5/5)
- I Went to a Bookbinding Workshop!
- Bruce Sterling thinks blogs will die out in another decade or so
- Web Typography Sucks, a pretty cool presentation at SXSW Interactive this week
- An essay on microtypography and dictionary design
- An interview with Jeff Smith, part one
- comparing scenes from the movie 300 to the panels in the original book
- Tom Lutz reviews books about how to read, and inevitably, what to read
- Manuale Tipografico
- Dreaming in Code (review: 4.5/5)
- Interview with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield
- A list of famous teetotalers
- January 31, 2007
- Grid systems in web design
- Scans of some absurdly complicated musical scores
- Here's the not-horrible music video for Midlake's song Roscoe
- Spreeder is another web speed-reading application
- Mike Davidson tries to pinpoint precisely what elements make it offensive
- An archive of celestial atlases
- A video with animated mechanical devices playing jazz/funk
- Damn, Heather Armstrong is a great writer
- Ways of Working is a cool set of lessons and musings on street photography
- A nice roundup of 77 tips to amp your learning
- I didn't know the World Almanac publishes a monthly newsletter
- A Practical Handbook for the Boyfriend (review: 4/5)
- The pages of the Manuale Typographicum by Hermann Zapf
- Some intriguing design-writ-large ideas about cities qua applications
- Lots and lots of maps of the brain
- Gawker analyzes why your New York Times Magazine always falls apart
- movies that chop up and mix the chronology
- An interview with Alison Bechdel
- Tom Edwards makes comics on ceramics / panels on pottery
- I love the Onion: Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product
- Whose art is it?
- Wikipedia chart explaining cousin relationships
- The Airchive is a huge repository of old airline ephemera
- medieval bestiary
- Wayne Gerdes can get 59 miles per gallon of gas out of a 2005 Honda Accord
- I like these spindly bookshelves from pogoHome
- incredible sculptures from hand-cut stacks of construction paper
- A person in California tried to rent out Beth Ann Bovino's New York apartment
- A 32-slot bracket for a film supervillain showdown
- The Cassini spacecraft has sent back some new images of Saturn
- Distorted maps of the earth
- The Cliché Rotation Project
- A list of names of books combined with names of bands
- talks about storytelling in 4 short films
- 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style
- You talk about music to share it
- A somewhat goofy interview with comics writer James Kochalka in one two three
- Square America is a gallery of vintage snapshots and vernacular photography
- A directory of signs, glyphs, and symbols
- Interesting graph charting relationships
- The Telegraph has a couple articles on the toxic wife
- Photos taken with a thrown camera
- Photos of vending machines in Japan
- I like the Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary
- Austin Kleon
- infographics drawing on aspects of American culture
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (review: 2.5/5)
- performance of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C# minor
- The problem with kitsch is deeper than its appeal to the mob
- interesting comments on what Starbucks has become, and what it should be
- A collection of patterns from the inside of security envelopes
- I love these renditions of the Republican elephant logo
- The video for Daft Punk's song, Around the World
- My name is Sherlock Holmes
- cool limited-edition set of letterpress artwork
- Chimpanzees are making weapons
- This Godless Communism
- emptiness and his collection of empty sheets of paper
- Merlin Mann is starting a little video show
- cover a friend's car in post-it notes
- Artwork made out of Rubik's cubes
- points to the audio and video
- interesting, melodramatic essay
- released a ginormous.torrent file
- interesting critique of Marxist literary criticism
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
- Mental note: I need to check out Art House in Decatur
- What I've Learned by Reviewing Books
- sunset on Uluru
- It was pretty idyllic all around
- In The Little Book of Plagiarism, Richard Posner excerpted T.S
- The Little Book of Plagiarism (review: 3.5/5)
- An ode to the petri dish
- Scholars from Reed College and Stanford reviewed over 150 praise studies
- An interview with Ootje Oxenaar, designer of Dutch currency
- rare books on calligraphy, penmanship, and pen art
- using the names of the objects to build them
- paintings of the descriptions of paintings
- The latest album from Feist is due out on May 1---which is far too long to wait
- How to break in a new book
- infographics in these Japanese stadium menus
- Check out these amazing curtains crafted by Nienke Sybrandy
- A study of internet weather forecast accuracy
- On NPR, Terry Gross interviews cartoonist couple Robert and Aline Crumb
- Engineering 503: Scientific Visualization & Information Architecture
- points to some pretty amazingly intricate origami creations
- How to Walk in High Heels (review: 1.5/5)
- sucked into a thunderstorm
- Here's an archive of annotations for Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics
- The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures (review: 2.5/5)
- Ah, vindication
- where you can find images in the public domain
- A video about adjusting to a new technology called a book
- LilyPond looks like an interesting musical notation program
- Continental Divide Trail thru-hike
- A nicely supersimplified map of the United States Interstate System
- Signal v. Noise pointed to a couple cool things the other day
- The Readius looks like it could be a worthy contender against Sony's Reader
- Comics with problems
- animated interpretation of John Coltrane's tune, Giant Steps
- An interview with Cory Doctorow, digesting his new book
- Okay, so I'm pretty much amazing
- Paul is going off the Flickr Grid
- Curses (review: 5/5)
- The Ecstasy of Influence, a new essay in Harper's about plagiarism
- Graphic Novelists Interpret Poems from PoetryFoundation.org
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (review: 5/5)
- Mr. Deity is a bi-monthly video series that looks at God and the Universe
- Cameron Marlow's idea for city guides
- Steve Jobs suggests that there is an alternative to DRM for music
- Bruce Schneier has written a long draft on the psychology of security
- Go grab a Useless Account
- A collection of old-school circus posters
- A pretty cool video demo for a multi-touch computer interface
- Epica Awards
- I wish I knew about the Hype Machine 10 years ago
- Interview with comics genius Alan Moore on the BBC
- Lasse Gjertsen’s Music Videos in the Wall Street Journal
- Dalai Lama (dot) Emory (dot) edu
- How to work better
- I'm slightly entranced by Joshua Petker's paintings
- multi-dimensional maps of dark matter
- Joshua Blankenship Got Engaged
- Truth in Advertising
- It's Gonna Rain
- wee obsessive about following the trail backwards
- Thanks to Anil Dash for the Pre-Superbowl Prince Primer
- Prog Rock
- The deal is simple
- A few weeks ago
- empathetic apes
- An interview with anthropologist Barbara King
- Fans of the Hipster PDA will hail the introduction of the Hipster Shuffle
- Control Mac Software with the Apple Remote Using iRed Lite
- Breakthrough Ideas for 2007
- Rebecca Blood
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (review: 3.5/5)
- Ah, nothing like a comforting spray of clam chowder
- Ellen Lupton and her students wrote a little handbook all about indie publishing
- Leah Peterson is asking you to mail her things to put in her next painting
- The BBC has a four-part podcast series on our increasingly noisy world
- had to cancel because the IRS wants $25,000 in taxes
- Michael Pollan has an extensive article on what to eat and why
- Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice
- Letter to a Christian Nation (review: 3.5/5)
- Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve
- I Really Like This Tie—and This One
- Our progress knows no bounds
- mystery of consciousness
- A brief history of infinity
- interview with L. Ron Hubbard, Jr
- collection of sunspot drawings
- She blinded me with library science
- Umberto Eco's 1994 essay on the Future of the Book
- collection of electronic literature
- Cartoon of the problem with Wikipedia
- updating the RSS feeds for Kottke.org
- The 101 dumbest moments in business
- 50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know (review: 3/5)
- The New York Times has a good profile of comics writers Robert and Aline Crumb
- Exploring the question: Is philosophy progressive?
- Finally, we have caffeinated doughnuts
- The God Delusion (review: dnf)
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has a snazzy new website
- 50 people see
- Why chicks don't dig the singularity
- Byron Janis on His Struggles with Acoustics
- Cory Doctorow writes about giving away his books for free
- comics, games, and world-building
- Astrology: A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences
- Lisa Carver on the current batch of chick
- Open most days about 9 or 10
- Myth versus truth in the Harry Potter case
- There's a Flickr group for headcrushing photos
- Emory University Water Tower 1933-2007
- Here's some clever comment spam, the bastards
- Austin Kleon has drawn up a cool mind map about comics and information design
- Interesting commentary on photo essays that appear on government websites
- Just by folding paper correctly, you can have your own Desktop Necromancer
- A bevy of fake Apple i-products
- Your Rights When Stopped for Photography
- Bibles with Custom Marketing Covers
- Star Trek vs. Batman, a fan film in one, two, three parts
- links to several places
- thief was persuaded to return the cellphone
- Heavy Water: Illustrations of Water and Architecture
- FedEx doesn't want to ship contents labeled as rocket fuel
- Winsor McKay agrees to make four thousand pen drawings that will move
- How to Write a Book in Three Easy Steps
- An brief interview with Ellen Lupton
- weekly map of the downtown homeless population
- A Version of Pong Using Real-Time Fluid Dynamics
- Free Font Manifesto
- A Scale Replica of the Battle of Helms Deep Made Mostly from Candy
- Atlanta Flickr Group is having a meet-up to learn how to shoot strangers
- Where Audiophiles Go When They Die
- runs as far as he can before the camera snaps
- Flickr Treat: A Halloween Story, by the Atlanta Flickr Group
- a movie about Helvetica
- a composite code for all the factors that make up a society’s well-being
- I love Wal-Mart
- The playground of the future may feature 'play workers' to help guide
- Area man loses weight by playing the Nintendo Wii
- worst book covers
- they have to succeed as literature or art, not as not superheroes
- growing collection of some of the most original main title sequence designs
- I was at the Atlanta History Center
- Photos from exploring the tunnels behind Niagara Falls
- Here's a nice mock-up of the iPhone
- What I Did On Martin Luther King Day
- comic book about Fair Use
- opened a storefront/ lab
- The allure of the trophy wife may be fading
- DS Tie-In Games I Wanna Play
- Seth Godin on Cingular CEO Stan Sigman's anemic performance
- Photos of discarded Christmas trees
- extensive speculation on Batman's religion
- The iPhone Announcement Meta-Buzz
- Jason Kottke sums up the iPhone trademark dispute quite nicely: booorrrrr-ring
- surprisingly colorful and exuberant bus stop architecture
- A collection of photos from College Photographer of the Year, Matt Eich
- Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For
- The British Library lets you browse some classic primary texts online
- Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (review: 3/5)
- speaks for many of us
- presents the aggregated critical favorites from 2006
- A Flickr photo collection of vintage children's books
- silliest and most destructive debate in journalism
- We don't need another anthology of feminist essays
- A Honda Civic commercial in which a chorus makes all the car sounds
- A nice little parody of old-school idiotic sexism
- Aerial Photos of Paris
- A slideshow tracking the changing art of Archie comics
- Well, the new iPhone is big, heavy, expensive, and only for Cingular
- Brian K. Vaughan on breaking into comics
- A pretty cool Line Rider video, including an insane jump over a busy freeway
- It’s Generation X in reverse
- The neuroscience of music
- here's a periodic table of visualization methods
- YouTube is reviving musical virtuosity
- scientific argument for keeping Saddam Hussein alive
- The neuroscience of music
- Leslie Harpold remembered
- YouTube Gives Deaf Signers an Expressive Channel
- Marjane Satrapi
- more than one place at the same time
- An interview with Steven Johnson
- Stupid Subway Sign Prank
- Malcolm Gladwell writes about mysteries
- They're doing this once a day--for a year
- K.G. Schneider on Management Models and the Nature of Work
- the faces of the dead
- An interview with Jacob Covey
- a video comparing the planets, the Sun, and a number of other stars
- Sally Shapiro Makes Me Want to Dance
- Barbara Rushkoff ponders leaving Brooklyn
- BookSwim is aiming to be the Netflix for literature
- The Wall Street Journal is shrinking their newspaper
- "God blessed me above all I could imagine." Before his death in Iraq, First Sgt
- Dave Conrey talks about his circle of name-sharing friends
- What are you optimistic about? Why?
- The Nonist mulls the next step in blogging and more importantly, in art
- New York Times on the science of free will
- Wikipedia has a list of fictional books
- Bubble Project
- The iA Trend Map shows all the big
- massive New Year's resolution-keeping experiment
- Andrew at Songs to Wear Pants to writes songs according to your instructions
2006
- These Are a Few of My Favorite Things from 2006
- paradoxes of percussion
- talks about his first experience
- Early Comics Archive
- The best photos of 2006 from the world of construction/ engineering
- we selected 56 works to appear in the 2006 Art of Science exhibition
- The Saints Row videogame for Xbox 360 has some pretty severe bugs
- A stick figure rebels against his animator
- An interview with SNL writer Bryan Tucker
- I really like this map of Manhattan
- A big collection of free movies & documentaries
- New Yorker on cocaine and rap
- Comics legend Stan Lee talks with NPR about superheroes
- Google Video has some good old-school cartoons by Winsor McKay
- I just learned about Open Culture yesterday
- And then there's this guy, who chose his Top 2006 Songs from 2006
- Every Finishing Move from Mortal Kombat 3
- Some Great Panels from the Little Nemo Comic Strips
- A collection of 191 versions of the Wham!
- I'm always looking for a new perspective on GTD
- The next Fantastic Four movie will feature the Silver Surfer
- The library at Chicago State University uses
- Just for Fun (review: 3/5)
- Mess is complete, in that it embraces all sorts of random elements
- The science of free-throw shooting
- A very good, and very critical review of Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion
- In a brief Economist essay on conversation
- Take a Nap! Change Your Life (review: 3.5/5)
- The government is celebrating the new year by automatically
- collection of classic snowman-building panels
- A great collection of stills and posters from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
- The 50 Greatest Cartoons
- article about airline security theatre
- In praise of Dilbert's 9-point financial plan, which reads
- Visual Complexity created a cool mosaic of the first 360 projects
- Students rate their professors
- playing "Autumn Leaves" on 2 guitars at the same time
- Comics for People Who Hate Comics
- Here's a bunch of pictures of tiny foods: A wee salad
- The graphic novel has been a’legitimate' art form for a while now
- Lifehacker collected their most popular posts from this year
- The Onion AV Club picks their top films for 2006
- A list of the Top Politically Incorrect Words for 2006
- Jodi Picoult Will Write Wonder Woman Comics
- Pentagram just completed a new identity/ packaging design for Saks Fifth Avenue
- Mick Crowley, who turns out to be a child rapist
- What's the one sentence you would tell the future?
- Ray Kurzweil and David Gelernter talk about machine consciousness
- The God Delusion
- Coudal is selling pins with letters
- Three Laws of Robotics
- great New Yorker article about Thomas Paine
- predictions for where search engines are headed in the next year
- Swivel is a web service that lets you compare public statistics
- New York Times article on our hapless Transportation Security Agency
- You absolutely must have tissues at hand before watching this video
- In another grand infringement of property rights, the U.S
- Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century
- Short Term Personal Savior
- UMich School of Information
- Chris Anderson on the Future of Wired and Media
- I spent some time last night reliving the magic of Star Wars kid
- You Thought We Wouldn't Notice tracks art/design plagiarism
- Pitchfork selects the worst album covers from 2006
- The 10 most dangerous play things of all time
- What happens when you put an iPod into a blender?
- A map of the internet, using contiguous IP addresses
- The Plain English Campaign has issued their annual awards for 2006
- Gangs are now actively recruiting and educating people for cyber crime
- There are super-lions in Botswana
- Ah, validation
- Blogger Leslie Harpold has passed on
- WordCount: 86,800 English Words by Frequency
- The Rise of the "Automagical"
- page dedicated for searching patents
- A collection of views from other people's windows
- New York Times Magazine selects the 74 best ideas from 2006
- There's a Wikipedia article on the meaning of life
- I made a book
- Alex Ross links to a set of trumpet bloopers
- Leah Peterson has a great set of interviews with bloggers
- Chris Anderson
- OMG: chicken fried bacon
- In praise of chain stores
- There’s Really Going to Be a Sixth Rocky Movie
- Crushing Krisis
- I've been playing around with Rita, a cool little paint program
- Best Buy is de-structuring its corporate work policies
- A catalog of Batman's gadgets
- Farewell Summer (review: 2/5)
- A month-long photo project, with each self-portrait taken at 2:45am
- Oh, I love you, Raisin Nut Bran
- Wikipedia has an article about the math and methods for shuffling playing cards
- The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (review: 3.5/5)
- A map of where the planet's happiest people are
- Why music critics need to (re)read the work of Lester Bangs
- An video/ illustration of a woman, drawn from bones out to wardrobe
- A sweet gallery of snowflakes at high magnification
- The Beginnings of Flickr
- I'd fit in so well with the old men
- First metrosexual, and now there is technosexual
- WPopac made an even bigger splash after winning a Mellon prize recently
- Blankets (review 3.5/5)
- It's quite beautiful for a textbook
- Here's a multi-part dialogue mulling the question, Why Are Atheists So Angry?
- Al Gore talks with GQ magazine
- how to succeed in 2007
- The Pulitzer Prize can now be awarded for online journalism
- Housekeeping vs. The Dirt (review: 3.5/5)
- At long last, the new computer arrived tonight
- Some pictures of Peanuts characters made to look like Marvel supheroes
- DC is about to make a serious move to attract teen females to graphic novels
- Ghost World (review: 3/5)
- No, you may not see my receipt
- I was at work today in the library and saw the most wonderful thing
- Photos from an incredible little selection of pop-up books for children
- Encyclopedia Brittanica has a weblog
- Noise (review: 1.5/5)
- A guy who thinks a lot about traffic has come up with experiments
- I just got a sweet deal on an iMac 24
- Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
- In the Shadow of No Towers (review 2.5/5)
- The Quotation Mark Abuse Flickr Group
- Here's a stop-motion movie
- The Ghost Map (review: 4/5)
- Roger Federer is so completely amazing
- 10 Minute Mail is a service that gives you a temporary e-mail address
- The New York Times offers a list of this year's most notable books
- giving sedentary gamers some exercise with its motion-control gameplay
- I like the cover art by Chris Ware on the latest issues of the New Yorker
- little series of videos where he plays the guy who is always on his phone
- Typography Lessons
- video of a baby laughing
- comic-form introduction to lockpicking
- Wired has a new piece about the recent lonelygirl15 video phenomenon
- the final chapter of the Productive Talks between Merlin Mann and David Allen
- Weekend recap
- New York Inquirer interviews Keith Gessen
- The top articles from the past 50 years of The New Scientist
- Discover magazine highlights the 25 Greatest Science Books of All Time
- Time for a road trip!
- There are a several different flavors of Kettle Chips in beta right now
- A lucid bit from Heather Armstrong's recent trip to New York City
- VDoogle lets you search across all the major video sites
- ideas to bring young audiences to classical music performances
- Here's a weekly rogues gallery for the world's worst spammers
- Our Obsession with Physical Appearance May Not Be So Shallow
- "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (review: 2.5/5)
- The 2006 National Book Awards have been announced
- Video of a guy who got shut down by the cops for giving away free hugs
- Henry Darger is one of the more notable creators of outsider art
- Version 1.0 of their standard service requisites
- Anyone else getting a lot of Italian spam lately?
- Productive Talks
- Booksport
- Here are some plates from Alexander Jamieson's 1822 book
- International Dark Sky Association can help you find a good spot
- ReputationDefender
- I'm a 24-year-old aspiring real estate investor from Sacramento CA
- Lost America
- Reinventing Comics (review: 3/5)
- great piece on Steve Reich in the New Yorker
- Wikipedia article on fictional expletives
- Politicians Sweep Midterm Elections
- Steven Johnson
- getting your hair cut by a sixth grader
- a fairly 'blah' review of the Zune
- Beyond Ballots or Bullets
- Documentary slides of a road trip from New York to San Francisco
- Flickr photographers have offered almost 24 million photos for use under
- Publisher's Weekly suggests the best books of 2006
- A couple great photos from Rick Santorum's concession speech
- Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change
- I love how the content on Design by Fire fades in and out as you scroll
- The New York Times has a nice infographic for election results
- Lincoln Unmasked (review: 2.5/5)
- Bob Barker is retiring from Price is Right
- A future society will very likely have the technological ability
- Blood costs more than oil, but less than ink for your printer
- Think Progress suggests 109 Reasons to Dump the 109th Congress
- A cool slide show on the evolution of writing
- Lovely photos at Flickr tagged with GuyFawkesNight
- Today is my birthday
- Spencer Tunick will be giving a talk at SCAD-Atlanta on Tuesday night
- Nelson Minar has has gathered up a number of cool links for Parisian street art
- I’m Glad to See This Message Again
- Making Comics (review: 4.5/5)
- Richard Dawkins
- You probably have a certain special someone in your life that just looooooves
- Some interesting thoughts on blog readability
- Game mechanics are rule based systems / simulations that facilitate
- A time lapse (music) video of a drive from Los Angeles to New York
- Apple is sponsoring the Insomnia Film Festival for students
- National security employees have been using a wiki to share
- The Americans with Disabilities Act could apply to access to websites
- If only everyone knew about research beyond Google
- The Worldchanging book was released today
- A documentary on one of the greatest games ever: Tetris
- Kottke revives and collects some previous research into one of the latest
- Small is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas (review: 3.5/5)
- Thank you thank you
- Sam Weber's illustrations are so cool
- Scott Rosenberg interviews Steven Johnson about his latest book, The Ghost Map
- soon available in paperback
- one-hour documentary on Blade Runner
- An article all about matching the wine glasses with the wine inside
- The 9/11 Report: A Graphical Adaptation (review: 2/5)
- NaBloPoMo is the new NaNoWriMo
- disengaged from ideological discussions
- fresh, current article on internet phenomena
- National Press Photographers Association
- I love these resume tips posted over at LifeClever
- Design Observer discusses the pluralist European Union anniversary logo
- Opening Night at the Atlanta Ballet
- Photos of computer monitors that look transparent
- A photo of a news anchor reporting on a serial criminal... uhh, security?
- Enron Explorer
- 37 Signals’book Getting Real is now available for free
- decals for your home
- A cool new version of the periodic table
- lucid comments at 43 Folders
- Thinking out loud on outside.in
- Firefox 2 was released today
- Here's a map of Springfield, home of the Simpsons
- Here's a comprehensive, though not unbiased, guide to electronic music
- In the latest issue of Wired magazine, a long feature about the’New Atheism'
- sweet collection of photos from the Hubble space telescope
- Understanding Comics (review: 4.5/5)
- Cover Browser
- Worldchanging: A User's Guide
- Ordinary People (review: 4.5/5)
- Music video for Bjork's tune, Bachelorette
- The Rest is Noise reminds us that Steve Reich turned 70 this year
- Visualizing Meaning
- As Slow as Possible
- Great Zeldman post and excellent comments about Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0
- Envisioning Information (review: 4/5)
- A New York Times feature on the tortured life of Friendster
- An absolutely fantastic interview with Neil Gaiman over at Bookslut
- I can't vouch for clinical accuracy, but here is a long list of phobias
- Learn how to detect lies
- Geographical Directory of World Paper Money
- Google Docs and Spreadsheets
- Solar and Heliosheric Observatory
- The Los Angeles Times is sending its investigators out to investigate itself
- NYT on the business of fashion: At the end of the day, would I wear Balenciaga?
- Banned Books Week
- A worldwide collection of book covers for Philip K Dick's novels
- We all know hypertext, but hypervideo, hopefully, is not too far away
- writes about pop culture and the Long Zoom
- why DRM is a bad, bad thing
- More Tufte
- Beautiful Evidence (review: 4.5/5)
- huge photos pasted on buildings throughout Atlanta
- Did you know
- join Emory University as Distinguished Writer in Residence
- Play a bunch of NES games online
- Ditto this: Feel free to use real paragraphs and explain stuff
- Parkour-style urban freerunning
- The Wisdom of Crowds (review: 4/5)
- Went Hikin'
- Gone Hikin'
- I just picked up The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation from the library today
- What's in your bag?
- Alright, this is getting out of hand
- An interview with the PC guy in those Apple commercials
- Daring Fireball
- NaNoWriMo registration opens up soon, if not already
- What you need is a helpful Venn Diagram
- access to all their scholarly publications
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, today is Museum Day!
- Spooky photos of an abandoned asylum
- A rather critical review of Burning Man 2006
- a year's worth of the bi-weekly Geek to Live posts
- hosting a secessionist convention
- The New Yorker on truth, beauty, and string theory
- TMN recently finished up their series of briefs on metropolitan parks
- Radar surveys the 8 worst hair trends on Capitol Hill
- cartoon at the head of the article
- Here's a very large Flickr photo group dedicated to HDR photography
- Michael Rogers questions the future value of reading
- Allsimps.com links to streaming video of all the Simpsons episodes
- A selection of personal finance how-to articles
- Now here is a great title for an essay
- HP’s Digital Camera Slimming Feature
- sending you a couple minutes worth of the story each day
- A video of Matrix-style table tennis
- Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment
- Death and Taxes: A Visual Guide to Where Your Federal Tax Dollars Go
- Lipton has decided to make tea bags that contain full-leaf tea
- Cato Institute has a new paper about Doublespeak and the War on Terrorism
- rent in New York
- A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
- Photos of Chernobyl
- William Chace's recent article
- A couple articles about speechballoons in comics and their evolution
- The Mises Institute has gathered up some of the latest economic indicators
- Function keys rule
- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
- research on given names and child development
- Sculptures made from incredibly intricate cuts on sheets of plain white paper
- an odd little opinion piece in the New York Times
- Looks like some folks need to brush up on the whole managing sensitive
- Some good tips on breaking the omnipresent writer's block
- Here's a sweet photo of the moon
- A cool collection of photos of books, almost like good portraiture
- A new book about Nazi-era humor
- A Year's Worth of Spending
- photographed himself every day for more than 6 years and made a video out of it
- A list of Biblical Horror Movies at McSweeney's
- The BBC has a photojournal of life inside a Bolivian jail
- My latest distraction has been the Google Image Labeler
- A particularly clever bit of telemarketing revenge
- learn about existing in ten dimensions
- visualizing enormous numbers with pennies
- One-minute vacations are short sound recordings of various places on the planet
- Rembrandt painted almost ninety self-portraits in his lifetime
- If you miss the original Zelda, you can get help
- provides free, user-recorded audiobooks for works in the public domain
- Free (as in speech) beer
- The 9-11 Report: A Graphical Adaptation
- Hugh MacLeod has 10 questions for Seth Godin
- Here's an oldie, but a goodie
- The Mises blog points to another victory in patent warfare
- Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut
- The Law (review: 5/5)
- The Tipping Point (review: 2/5)
- Here's a piece in the BBC
- DejaVu.org offers a brief history of the internet
- An interview with Sebastian Junger
- Orwell's 11 essentials for A Nice Cup of Tea
- Nick Hornby writes about How to Read
- the Kool-Aid Man wears pants now
- cool visual tools that will make the ticket shopping less complicated
- Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being Scott Williamson
- GigaPxl Project
- In 1919 in the city of Boston, 21 people were killed in a flood of molasses
- I remember being fascinated with stacking things when I was younger
- an exhibit featuring items stolen from other art museums
- Jason Kottke points out that Wal-Mart employs 1.8 million people on the planet
- Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint
- Zap Reader is a little web service that makes speedreading easier on the web
- Han van Meegeren forged 7 Vermeers in the mid-1900s
- 3 more official planets in our solar system
- L.A. Has Become the Finest Place in America to Think and Write About Nature
- Heidi Klum's Body of Knowledge (review: 3/5)
- The Time Traveler's Wife (review: 3.5/5)
- the British Library lets you explore almost 700 English accents and dialects
- Julian Beever creates pavement drawings that look three-dimensional
- Make your own motivational poster
- Scientists rethink the collapse of Easter Island society
- article in New York Times Magazine about rebellious branding
- Anoushka Shankar: Live at Carnegie Hall (review: 3/5)
- Rebecca Blood has posted an interview with Jason Kottke of kottke.org
- Everything Bad is Good for You (review: 4/5)
- A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way
- Test how well you know your 80s lyrics
- Stephen King tells us everything we need to know about writing
- A nice write-up examining the Atlanta Aquarium with a designer's eye
- The internet's reach is only to about 1 of every 6 people on the planet
- Happy Birthday, Internet
- In praise of boxer-briefs
- Here are some links & photos to some of the worst-named government documents
- The Works (review: 4/5)
- We may be raising a nation of wimps
- Scientific American weighs in on expertise and experts
- The Botany of Desire (review: 3.5/5)
- One man's trash is another man's trumpet
- Kazaa is slowly getting out of its legal quagmire
- collection of a couple thousand posters from our dearly-departed USSR
- Six-and-a-half billion people on this planet
- Advertising Has Forgotten How to Be Subtle
- It seems like people like to click on eyes and brightly-colored things
- Lately it has become the "in" font for websites
- Atlanta Ballet Orchestra Given the Pink Slip
- Music is louder than it used to be