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2008 Postage Stamp-Sized Mini Calendar [Calendar]
Figure out what day any date or month in 2008 lands on with the postage stamp-sized Super Minimalist Micro Calendar, pictured here. It looks like a meaningless grid of numbers and letters, until you learn how to read it: The first column contains numbers for the months of the year. The middle gives the weekday …
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I wish the library had more of this junk. Sure, they’ve got Jane Austen. Who doesn’t? Libraries are stodgy. They need more crap like The Spider. evandorkin: This, That, And The Other Thing
American Crescent
Designer name to come When I first saw American Crescent, I immediately thought of an Economist cover I saw a year or so ago. Turns out the magazine has an archive of their covers, and I was able to find it. In less talented hands, American Crescent would feature a shot of the Statue of …
Eva Kor, a Mengele twin and Auschwitz survivor, was giving a talk on campus that semester, and I encouraged my students to go hear her. What could be more relevant? “Extra credit?” someone asked. The question made me crazy with exasperation. Here’s a woman who survived the Nazis, I said, and you want me to …
Half Life
Illustration © Jeremiah Maddock as seen on:my love for you is a stampede of horses [via Elly Yap]. The famous Wound Man* together with the anatomy and phlebotomy diagrams and the urine ‘connoisseurs’ illustrations [see also: Tabula Urinarum] come from a collection of medical treatises from South Germany compiled into the one manuscript and dated …
[image: elephant 1][image: elephant 2]Bricolage "L'élephant
Bricolage “L’élephant du Maharadjah”[image: elephant 1][image: elephant 2]Bricolage "L'élephant
this is not your father’s library
We’ve heard it so often, it seems like a truism: in this era of instant electronic information access, libraries are like dinosaurs that don’t know they’re already extinct. Well, maybe not. A new survey has found that Generation Wired uses libraries far more often than you might think. In fact, Internet-savvy youth between 18-30 are …
Something to Tell You
Designer name to come Briefly noted in the Guardian’s preview of upcoming fiction for 2008 is this: “Hanif Kureishi also returns to the 70s, and the territory of his enduringly lovable The Buddha of Suburbia, with a much-tipped new novel, Something to Tell You (Faber, March). His narrator is an analyst looking back on the …
Tom Strong #9
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