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 at a few minutes of it and while it didn’t make me feel overtly proud, it certainly didn’t make me nauseous. I’d give it a 7. Your mileage may vary. Like, a 2 or something.
Yeesh. A goddamned 4 from the…
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 map itself states: “Slumless, Smokeless Cities”.
The map was drawn up by Sir Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), the father of the garden city movement. Howard believed…
(taille d’origine 53×41 cm) 1966
le petit train du" manège enchanté" pour les enfants (ou les nostagiques)
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“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 known as Youtube, featuring a bevy of celebrity heavy hitters, also-rans and complete obscurities who polluted the airwaves during, oh, let’s say the 50’s up through the 80’s….
WIlliam Gaines On “To Tell The Truth” via Classic Television Showbiz
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 life at the time. Today I was very pleased to throw 2. K’un, The Receptive
On the recommendation of my Doctor of Chinese Medicine, who has been studying with the I Ching for almost…
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 out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san…
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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.”
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 look like mirror images of each other, down to the various selection tabs on offer. As a test, I entered “information retrieval” as a search term in both. I didn’t do a hard analysis, of course, but I found Clusty’s clusters generally more scannable and valuable as a starting point for further searches, as the clusters tended to be more granular. Carrot2’s fewer clusters seemed to survey the landscape at a slightly higher level; specifying different sorting algorithms (available under Show Options) was fun though–“Rough k-Means” and “HOAG-FI” shook up the clusters and yielded a more interesting display.
By the way, I’m also subscribing to Mary Ellen’s Info-Entrepreneur newsletter. I’m able to visualize myself doing that kind of work soon; up to now, I’ve not had a real picture of where my IS degree may take me. The Info-preneur/Information Broker idea at least gives me a start at something to form ideas around. I also consider it a good omen that her initials (MEB) are the same as mine. 🙂
Mary Ellen also runs a blog on the side, Librarian of Fortune, where she “contributes white noise to the blogosphere.” Highly recommended, as are her newsletters.
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, “(Zadie Smith’s) instruction was simple: make somebody up.” I’m dying to know if there are more illustrations on the back cover.
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