“Speed, safety, and comfort will be the keynotes of tomorrow’s highways.” Awesomeness from Disney in 1958.
I could quote this entire article by Jeffrey Zeldman, but think this pretty much sums it up:
If you write or design, you must believe in what you do. If you don’t believe you have something to…
Human Rights Watch have just published: ‘Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-Treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan’ (…
Vladimir Nabokov. The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. $35.
One sample (transcribed exactly):
Black fans and violet ones, fans like orange sunbursts, painted fans…
Brillo just took the mick out of Sir Michael on the Daily Politics over him telling us on Monday of a hung parliament “It’s not going to happen” and then on Tuesday saying it “is on the…
Two years ago, my wife surprised me with one of the coolest presents I’ve ever received: an original Goliathon raygun from effects-house Weta (best known for doing the effects for the Lord of…
by Julie Wolfson
Preferring the word barsmith over bartender, Michel Dozois takes the mixed drink to a whole new level with his invention of Névé luxury ice. On hand for the opening of…
WARNING: MEDICAL
On Nov 13th, Jason Kottke asked
Why doesn’t anyone talk about bacterial marketing? Or hookworm infestational media?
I wrote
@jkottke viruses make a better metaphor; they…
I hereby declare – for the benefit of anyone at Oxford UP who might be reading – that I was going to require my (probably 50-or-so) students next semester to buy your serviceable little paperback…
The audiobook of my latest novel, Makers has been published by Random House Audio, strictly in DRM-free formats over the net (this means that Apple won’t carry it in the iTunes store, even…
