Sottsass Pompidou

Simpsons Comics #83
Simpsons Comics #83

The language of the slot-machine industry:

There’s a term bandied about at the trade shows: “extinction.” We need to design for extinction, we need to reduce time-to-extinction, and so on.

What’s…

Extinction

James Joyce, Ulysses, Kindle edition, $3.19.  Free shipping, too. 

Is the book market going the way of the music market, where there is a systematic redistribution of the surplus toward…

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Thor #163
Thor #163

Roaming through the jungle, the jungle of “oohs” and “ahs,” searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps…

On Duke Ellington's birthday

Adventures of the Fly #23
Adventures of the Fly #23

Yesterday I went to a party at Robin Hanson’s.  Megan McArdle, Bryan Caplan, Will Wilkinson, Tyler and many others were in attendance, as was my 6-year old. 

“How was the party?,” my wife asked…

The 6yr old Reports

guignol de roudoudou (1969)

Young Romance #24
Young Romance #24