September 2009
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"In other words the writer used the word “ironic”...
I am going to punch the next person that erroneously points out a “misuse’ of the word ironic in a perfectly acceptable use case. I will fly in a plane to go punch them.
“Designers, ultimately, are concerned very much about the ‘front’...”
– An Observation About Designers Versus Developers, via Angry Donuts
August 2009
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“Those damn fascists! First they came for the flyers, and I was silent because I...”
– “Stephen” comments on Leaked Memo Reveals Effort to ‘Improve’ Dolores Park « Mission Mission.
Well, I still want to drink beer in the park.
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“I noticed a plump green tentacle growing out of the soil of my orchid plant. It...”
– — MyFirstOrchid on Mysterious Orchid Tentacle discussion on the UBC Botanical Garden Forums
Turgid AND vermiform? that guy rules.
(My orchid is doing this too. Turns out they’re roots.)
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Is it normal to wear the same bra for weeks? →
laurao: I used to have this discussion with my lovely college roommate. She changed her clothes — all her clothes — every day. I, on the other hand, can wear the same pair of pants for days at a time. Ditto for bra. Most of the rest gets changed regularly.
Other ladies? Thoughts?
Somebody told me once that, like shoes, your bras will last longer if you switch them out, wearing them for a day,...
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“Because the Internet is so new we still don’t really understand what it is. We...”
– Douglas Adams on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, via @kevinmarks
Wow! Douglas Adams wrote this paragraph ten years ago, and it exactly summarizes why I find it extremely odd/uncomfortable that Twitter is being treated like a news source (and positioning itself as a news...
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“Then there’s the peculiar way in which certain BBC presenters and journalists...”
– Douglas Adams on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet, via @kevinmarks
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Exotic Soda Index →
A list of exotic sodas.
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“An extension of the above sentiment is our new WME Boot Camp. I am excited to...”
– Internal Memo From Ari Emanuel, via Crackpotress.
(Ari Emanuel is the real-life inspiration for Entourage’s Ari Gold.)
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“The exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different...”
– David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
This section of the speech reminds me of a section of Daniel Gilbert’s Stumbling On Happiness in which he notes that the clinically depressed have a very realistic view of their importance in the world, and “tend to...
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The problem with the dashboard
There’s somebody I follow on Tumblr that continually posts interesting old type examples. Today I went to that person’s Tumblr to reference they’d posted recently (Simmelkiaer Grotesk) and realized…that the Tumblr I thought had all the type references has nothing.
Now I have no idea who’s been posting all those great typefaces. I guess I’ll find out next...
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Cocktails from the housewarming
I stopped by Cask on Saturday to ask for advice about what cocktails to make for our pool party on Sunday. Here’s what the ever-helpful, always-cheerful, remarkably well-versed employees gave me, from the Rickhouse recipe book:
Summertime Sling
1.5oz Gin
.5oz Leopold Sour Cherry
.75oz Pineapple gum
1oz Orange juice
.5oz Lemon juice
Shake, double strain into Collins glass and top...
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“As a user experience designer, I thought my job was to make things not suck....”
– The iPhone is Not Easy to Use: A New Direction for User Experience Design, from Johnny Holland - It’s all about interaction
This is directly related to something I’ve been pondering a lot lately: namely, how to easily differentiate—and explain the difference to uneducated aduiences—between...
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look fix it and stop not fixing it
pp|: bike's busted again
pp|: two loose spokes
pp|: i'm takin it back in
pp|: and ima be like
pp|: look fix it
pp|: and stop not fixing it
pp|: cuz this is LUDICROUS
pp|: ludacris will bust through the wall like the kool-aid man and start rap attacking them
pp|: will just straight rap the shit out of some words at them
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“I think that, in general, everybody is eccentric. Aside from a small minority of...”
– of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes interviewed by Jay Hathaway for Suicide Girls
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Try Me, I Know We Can Make It, by Donna Summers
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