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suddenly: Creepola. What’s even scarier is I think I had one as a kid (by wackystuff)
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I remember a negative review of Maggie Nelson’s book on cruelty saying that it read like a Tumblr. And I remember thinking – oh man, that would be awesome. It’d be amazing if our essays were like Tumblrs – and took from that project of authenticity, immediacy, rhythmic juxtapositions, voice, aphorisms, fragments. Walter Benjamin’s Arcades…
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Eminent Harvard labor economist Larry Katz sees a future where many lower-skilled workers are employed in the service sector supporting America’s innovative class. But he sees it as an open question as to whether these service jobs will be as sales clerks and lawn hands, or fashion consultants and landscape designers. Katz refers to these…
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artlistpro: Like/make crap now The Crap Show via sin-sin-sin via dingeundsachen:
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laphamsquarterly: theatlantic: Coffee: Preventing Scurvy Since 1650 In 1650, St. Michael’s Alley, London’s first coffee shop, placed an ad in a newspaper. That ad — archived in the British Museum, and Internet-ed by the Vintage Ads LiveJournal — extolled the many Vertues of the newly discovered beverage. Which “groweth upon little Trees, only in the Deserts…
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Caligraft
Caligraft notational: A portfolio of typographic experiments using Processing by Ricard Marxer Piñón . Includes source codes.
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It’s easy to see Slots as an admission that Zynga’s design philosophy of “repackage XP grinding in a variety of brightly colored wrappers” is finally starting to wear thin for the social network set. And it’s quite heartwarming, actually, to think that someone within Zynga must have had the epiphany that “If the mechanics of…
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@HuffingtonPost: Video game sales plummet for 7th consecutive month http://t.co/zhRwfaL7 July 13, 2012 at 11:51AM via http://bit.ly/SjyGIc (via stoweboyd)
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nevver: Buckminster Fuller