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Design Think: The contract
Design Think: The contract design-think: Recently, as I’ve got more clients and begun to take on more freelance work, I’ve needed to up my game in the paperwork department. In the past I’ve relied less on this, but the more clients I get, and the larger prospective projects that land in my inbox, the more…
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newyorker: Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits. It is a tactile process, like making a collage, and occasionally…
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Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker
Woody Allen: Science Fiction Filmmaker austinkleon: @MattThomas: “Wherein I agree with Harlan Ellison that Woody Allen may be the premier science fiction filmmaker of our time.” Great argument.
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Please, dear College Presidents, stop sending for the police. Our students face a difficult enough future. This should not be a time to beat them up, to spray them with mace or pepper juice, to kick and hit them. We are at a turning point, and leadership is required to prevent disaster. We need to…
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The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury – Lifestyle – GOOD
The End of Cheap Coffee: Why the Diner Staple Is About to Become a Luxury – Lifestyle – GOOD
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A strong theme that emerged — which we certainly found entirely unsurprising, but which ought to give genuine pause to the cleverer sort of marketers — is that, even where respondents displayed sufficient awareness and understanding of QR codes to make use of them, virtually no one expressed any interest in actually doing so. Urbanscale…
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Multimedia/Artwork O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies accepts artwork and mixed media projects on a rolling submissions basis. Please send a one-page proposal or description of your work, including any relevant portfolio samples, to the editors. Requests for completed works will be issued upon acceptance of a proposal. Please note that acceptance of a proposal…
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O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies
O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies
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Antoine Wilson’s Notes on “Hack”
lareviewofbooks: The Dial is an occasional column that will sometimes serve as my soapbox, but more often feature guests whose work is either closely personal, experimental, or otherwise off our usual diet of book reviews and review essays. H.L. Mencken once said that “a professor must have a theory, as a dog must have fleas,”…
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newyorker: Kelefa Sanneh’s Perfect Cup of Coffee In this week’s Food Issue, Kelefa Sanneh writes about Aida Batlle, “a fifth-generation coffee farmer and a first-generation coffee celebrity.” Sanneh maintains that “brewing a proper cup of coffee is a lot harder than uncorking a bottle of wine and a lot easier than cooking dinner.” Which leads…