2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
A little vintage photography magazine porn for you. Handwritten notes by graphic designers. (via Letters of Note.) While we’re on the subject, perhaps you’d like to know about postal carrier bands. Now let us ease you into your weekend with…
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Tender Speech
“When two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.” –In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Once again, regular people are better at predicting the future than bankers. Where are all the ladies? This new Foursquare-powered tool will tell you. Xbox Kinect’s newest awesome use: robotic surgery. I’d flip for joy if I could buy one…
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“No More Lonely Moments.”
Well would you look at that, McSweeney’s has launched version 2.0 of “Small Chair,” their very enjoyable iPhone app.
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Lovecraft Documentary
Lately I’ve been wanting to watch more documentaries about writers. Any suggestions? In the meantime, thanks to Galley Cat, I found this documentary about H.P. Lovecraft which is worth ninety minutes of your time.
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Novels Versus Stories
“I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say this: The short story is not experiencing a renaissance. Our current and much-discussed market glut of short fiction is not about any real dedication to the form. The…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #63: The Magic of Wanting to Be
Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning.
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Literal New Yorker Captions
The Monkeys You Ordered improve New Yorker cartoons by giving them literal captions (via Kottke):
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Nicholas Rombes’ Art Film Roundup
A few years ago, when I was finishing up the final edits on Cinema in the Digital Age, a colleague and I got into a heated debate about a section of the book where I argued that some of the…
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“The eye section alone suffices, the under portion of the face being unnecessary.”
Diagrams and illustrations by Tom Lewis for the CRM textbooks Life and Health (1972) and Developmental Psychology Today (1971):
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The Intimates
Ralph Sassone’s first novel explores the devastating emotional craters of first love, and the bumpy, baffling relations between the generations.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Seed Magazine on the pros and cons of your cockiness. I don’t really know why I find these literal New Yorker cartoons so funny. This article is about farming slime (slime that farms). The visual context of music. Bad news…