Month: March 2009
Admit it designers, you’re a bunch of playbabies. Witness:
In recent weeks I’ve gradually been turning twitter into something somewhat useful. To do so I had to undo my foolish initial approach to it.
“Honour commercio’s energy yet aid the linkless proud, the plurable with everybody.” — Finnegans Wake Designing for Google : It’s not a design-oriented company How Designers Fail :…
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I received this unusual e-mail recently (subject line: “you ruined my life, sorta / an offer for karmic balancing”). I have edited it somewhat to conceal the identity…
“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which.” – William Butler Yeats MLA style guide gives up on urls, says just describe the source :…
Just a week ago a portrait of Shakespeare emerged that was supposedly painted by a contemporary. Now a fellow named John Casson (“an independent researcher and psychotherapist”) who…
According to a survey conducted by Spread the Word, a UK book advocacy group, two-thirds of respondents admitting lying about having read certain books. Which books do people…
A fellow called “the magic of chutney” sure knows how to dominate a board. Saying “Some of you is so down on fonts..I’m gonna get my man Johannes…
“Every separation is a link.” — Simone Weil “Newspaper publishers are idiots” : So says Dvorak (who has made some howlers of his own over the years) Six…
There will be a reading from the Mutanabbi Street anthology that Red Hen Press recently published, tomorrow, March 11, at 7:30 at Overland Books in San Francisco. The…
Is this really a contemporary’s portrait of Shakespeare? .
Right Reading received this e-mail from Olivia Sears, president of the Center for the Art of Translation. I hope you are all enjoying The Best of Contemporary Mexican…
Tim O’Reilly makes some points in its favor. .
Ten Speed Press, a mainstay of Bay Area Book Publishing for nearly forty years, has been sold to Random House, which means it is now part of the…
Before “upgrading” your Netflix instant-watch player, think about it. .