Welcome to Eltingville, the pilot based on the Eltingville Club strips from Dork, can be seen on the Adult Swim Video site for the next few days. Here’s the pilot, if you are interested. The viewers have given the episode a rating of 4 out of 10, which is a whole lotta ouch. I looked …
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Take that, Harry Beck. Try as you might, the lines on your Tube map could never be as straight as this. Beck schematised a transportation system that was completely irregularly laid out to begin with. This map, however, shows how planning ahead would enable not just symmetry, but also better living conditions, or as the …
(taille d’origine 53×41 cm) 1966le petit train du" manège enchanté" pour les enfants (ou les nostagiques)[image: petit train polux][image: img161] (taille d'origine
“Don’t know really. Started out as something, ended up many other things. I’ve been eating a lot of figs recently. They’re good and ripe right now.” In other words, this is a Flickr set of scans of someone’s wonderfully odd sketchbook. More regrettable incidents in a life filled with bitter remorse
Classic Television Showbiz, a blog run by Kliph Nesteroff, is far and away one of my favorite sites on the World Wide Wasteland. As the name implies, it’s all about that vast wasteland we know and love/loathe called television. More to the point, it’s about old clips from TV, culled from the even vaster wasteland …
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Dragons fight in the meadow. Their blood is black and yellow. I have been throwing hexagrams for a week now, and trying to understand the I Ching. I have only the barest understanding of what is going on, but even so, they have been wildly, almost frighteningly, accurate at representing what’s going on in my …
Here, on the morning of the Macworld keynote address, some earlier words from Steve Jobs, from a Stanford commencement address, June 12, 2005: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped …
Designer name to come How refreshing not to see someone walking away from the camera or the creepy black porno bar across someone’s eyes for this “definitive study of writers covering their tracks.” Anonymity
Mary Ellen Bates raves about Carrot2 in her latest InfoTip newsletter. Carrot2 clusters search results, much as Clusty.com does. Carrot2 differs in that it’s using a Swiss meta search engine, etools.ch, as the basis for its initial group of search results, while Clusty uses US-based meta search engines. Both the Carrot2 and Clusty home pages …
Designer names to come The BDR loves anthologies: see a few more here , here and here. (And for something even cooler, keep reading.) The Book of Other People (gotta be Charles Burns illustrations, right?) comprises 23 stories by writers such as David Mitchell, Dave Eggers, George Saunders and Chris Ware. According to Publisher’s Weekly, …
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