September 2010
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David Sedaris on His New Book, Bestiary, Hippo... →
“In his new book, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, writer, radio star, and amateur zoologist David Sedaris takes an artistic leap away from memoir and essay to channel a dark and dirty Aesop. In sixteen brief tales, Sedaris introduces readers to snotty warblers, lab rats who experience Schadenfreude, and a certain parasite that sings in a hippo’s butt. Children’s book author...
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Google Finds Black Cock Offensive, But White Cock... →
From the fine dudes at This Is FYF: “When Google introduced their new “instant” search, they created a blacklist of words that would not come up “instantly” so as not to offend more fragile minds. Of course, now someone is compiling the “Google Blacklist”. Some interesting dichotomies:”
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“The oldest, Matthew Carter, 72, is a type designer in Cambridge, Mass., known...”
– Type Designer Carter wins a $500,000 genius award to be named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
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Devo frontman: "I smoked angel dust with Michael... →
“The only time in my life I smoked angel dust was by accident and it was on a double date with Andy Warhol and Michael Jackson,” laughs Mothersbaugh. ‘We all went to Studio 54 and people were passing drugs all over the place. Michael Jackson had just finished doing the movie The Wiz and still looked like Michael Jackson back then – he had an Afro and he was still black. He...
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Can Experience be Designed? →
“Do experience designers shape how users feel or do they shape with respect to how users feel? A small but important nuance. Did you catch it? No? Then let me ask you this way: Do architects design houses or do they design “inhabitant experiences?”
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The Story Behind a Wikipedia Entry →
“And for the first time in history, we’re building a system that, perhaps only for a brief time but certainly for the moment, is capable of recording every single one of those infinitely valuable pieces of information. Everything should have a history button. We need to talk about historiography, to surface this process, to challenge absolutist narratives of the past, and thus, those of the...
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