Reader Geoffrey writes in with this clever cable decluttering tip for repurposing CD or DVD spindles:
I just discovered a nice re-use of those CD/DVD spindle cases: use them to store cables…
ABC3D
Pop-up books? Often cool; sometimes meh. This pop-up book? I’ll take two. Via Design Observer.
Lyn Cowan on Mentalspeak.
In her essay Feeding the psyche, Junk words and corn-fed music, psychologist Lyn Cowan attacks the meaningless language of psychology, lacking depth and significance, words such as addiction,…
Love Diary #5
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The Grand Master
“He has covered with his never-flagging pencil enough
charta pura (white paper) to placard the whole walls of China,
and etched as much copper as would sheathe the British Navy.”
charta pura (white paper) to placard the whole walls of China,
and etched as much copper as would sheathe the British Navy.”
Jackie Gleason on creating a character
[Photograph of New York City subway rider by Walker Evans.]
He once told me that the creation of a character “starts with looking at all the people on the subway, figuring out how they…
QotD: Jack Lalanne’s recipe for happiness
Exercise, avoid man-made foods, and smile, fercryinoutloud.
Lalanne is 93, btb.
h/t Boing Boing
Puffin Classics, redesigned
A number of Puffin Classics have been redesigned. There’s no way these looked as good when I was a kid. See more of them here.
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