June 2009
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“in the midst of remarkable and unprecedented change, in the midst of the...”
– God I love Cary Tennis. Here in his Salon advice column someone asks, “I studied print journalism: Now what?”
He replies that journalists “stand paralyzed before the fire, like animals watching their habitats burn. I can see what’s happening but am also somewhat paralyzed,...
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“A ceramics professor comes in on the first day of class and divides the students...”
– Mike Arauz, referencing Bill Buxton’s book Sketching User Experiences to encourage little projects and iterative experimentation.
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“Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Gustave Flaubert
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“Every person of fairly good education and of restless mind writes a book. As a...”
– “The March 25, 1893 Newark Daily Advocate ran predictions of what the world of 1993 would look like. Substitute the word “blog” for “book” in [Nym Crinkle’s] prediction and it could have easily been written today.” Via Paleo-Future.
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“We all want to put on the style. It is part of presenting our public self, like...”
– Richard Lanham in Analyzing Prose quoted in Deep Glamour
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“Anonymity can be useful not just to cloak your identity or to try to fool...”
– Tomorrow Museum: Bill Wasik on Anonymity
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Everything Tracy Jordan said in Season 3 of 30... →
“It’s like an owl without a graduation cap. Heartbreaking!”
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Things I have overheard Americans say in Paris
Woman outside the Notre Dame, peevish: “These TREES weren’t in the way last time.”
Man in backpacker garb to silent girlfriend: “I mean, if I worked on the top floor in a big building, I’d have a parachute. You have to be prepared for anything.”
Woman in supermarket to other woman, uncertainly: “I think I’m going to try some of this French...
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This guy recorded the screams of people bungee... →
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“It’s a common complaint that the Web makes us more impatient, but most of...”
– “One Lesson from the Crisis: It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy,” Tyler Cowen Fast Company via Kottke
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“More and more, “production” — that word my fellow economists...”
– “One Lesson from the Crisis: It’s Time to Create Your Own Economy,” Tyler Cowen Fast Company via Kottke
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WatchRUSSH - ISSUE 29 - VIDFLIP on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
OMG my favourite fashion magazine Russh is on Tumblr, and look at this genius video - where they flip through the entire magazine to tantalise you about its contents!
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“A bit further back in line, Wayne Fox, 54, had two poodle-looking dogs poking...”
– Unexpected poignancy in this article about the 3G S iPhone launch, via my friend Ali.
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“Knee-jerk contrarians on the Internet (those delightful people who find fault in...”
– This description of the internet Devil’s Advocate taken (with slight changes for ease of quoting) from “Abort, Retry, or EPIC FAIL,” Waxy.org. And here he links to thoughts on the slightly less agressive but still pernicious cousin of FAIL, “Meh.”
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“Tumblr interfaces dangerously with my insecurity, my contrarian vanity, and my...”
– Half an hour early to meet someone in the Marais, I’m reading through mills’ archive and came across this gem of a description of his complex feelings around Tumbling.
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DidItLeak →
A Twitter that tells you when albums leak onto the internet.
Via balltillifall
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A quick self-test for narcissism
Re: Catcher in the Rye
if you think Holden Caulfield “gets it” and sees through people’s pretenses, you’re a narcissist. Unless you are under 25, in which case you are completely normal.
if you think Holden Caulfield is really just sad and alienated, but afraid to take the dangerous steps towards adulthood and meaningful connections with other people, then you are perceptive; unless you are...
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How To Become a Successful Ballet Dancer →
Ahhhhh I love this blog. I like Number 4. “If your parents insist on staying alive, it’s preferable that they try to suffocate your dance dream.”
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“In the distant, landline-dominated past people thought: “I have a feeling so I...”
– Does anyone have an Economist subscription who could email me this article? It’s called Homo mobilis, and quotes the work of Sherry Turkle, a psychologist at MIT.
Update: Thank you to Chris for emailing it to me!
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“Kunkel’s experience of the Internet bears no resemblance to my experience of the...”
– Emily Gould in Emily Magazine about Benjamin Kunkel’s book review in n+1.
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“No one ever just sends an email” is reminiscent of the old slogan,...”
– Benjamin Kunkel, with whom I do not entirely agree, being quite interesting as he reviews three books I’ll probably read, in n+1.
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“Nous vendons un état d’esprit qui va avec le vélo, c’est-à-dire être...”
– “We sell the state of mind that comes with a bicycle, that is to say, to be cool, available and always nice.” The motto of Vélo Vintage bike shop, Paris
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City Guides podcast: Paris 1968 walking tour →
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“The Daily Telegraph may have had a team of 25 journalists working on the...”
– “The breakneck race to build an application to crowdsource MPs’ expenses,” The Guardian
“In the application, at mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk, each MP’s expenses and claims are presented as a set of images, and users can determine - and detail - what entries there are on...
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“People don’t do what they’re supposed to do. The working class don’t do what The...”
– People don’t think like we think they should think: Dave Trott’s Blog
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6 steps to valuable Internet content →
I most agree with Number 1, “the idea that web text has to be terse is not a good idea.”
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“A book is a pathway inside another person’s head. When you are young, you have...”
– Tomorrow Museum on why so many teenagers are passionate readers.
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