May 2010
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WatchTerrible Love.
January 2010
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The Giant Crystal Cave →
October 2009
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WatchStranger than kindness.
The Paris Review - Not Like I Don't Like You →
Read read read.
Where The Wild Things Are Roundtable: Spike Jonze,... →
I’m excited.
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Simpson Family Values | vanityfair.com →
Old but fascinating; John Ortved has expanded this article into a book I’d really, really like to read (Amazon)
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World Animal Day 2009 →
Ligers! Baby turtles! Reindeer!
The Billion Dollar Gram | Information Is Beautiful →
Information is beautiful! And incredibly depressing, at the same time.
50 Years of Space Exploration →
I love the coloured grooves around Mars, Venus, and the Moon; they remind me of something, but I can’t quite place it…
Artwiculate
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Arcane, lilt, oeuvre, perspicacious, vicarious: all excellent words.
Buddy Holly - Not Fade Away
via Boogie Woogie Flu
The Impossible Project →
Polaroid is coming back!
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Letters of Note →
(via Boing Boing)
Read read read. Then read some more.
Star Guard →
I may or may not ever get anything done ever again.
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Cooking By Committee: Will Wiki Work in the... →
Maybe? Cooking seems such an individual and idiosyncratic thing, a realm where cooks are often fiercely protective of their recipes. If there’s a hundred ways to make even the most simple dishes, how could you ever reconcile them?
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Louis Armstrong - A kiss to build a...
Elliot Smith - Thirteen (Big Star cover)
This...
The XX - Basic Space
How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect →
“Is it about a bicycle?” he asked.
The Third Policeman
David Byrne’s Perfect City →
David Bryne talks perfect cities; there was some great stuff about this in a recent Monocle as well. Thinking New Zealand, a poor balance of density and size is one of the reasons why, say, Christchurch is horrible, characterless and uninhabitable.
