clients from hell
Wow. We really don’t like web as a medium. Can you please force our sites visitors to print out a copy of every page? We want our page to be more tangible. I recently spent about 2 months designing an...
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weekend silliness: be cool
Get out those band photos. And the Irony. Classes are over, portfolios are turned in. A list of my own – tentative summer plans: - rock the Yellowstone hotspot - work in school photo lab - use grant...
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perpetrators
Wayne Bremser did an interesting post on Oscar Grant’s cellphone photo of James Mehserle before Grant was shot in the back by Mehserle. Despite my interest in the case, I hadn’t realized that Mehserle...
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It’s in times like these that we need a man named Hans who cries out for empathetic behavioral change rather than dependence on purely technological cures. He’s a great example of what a difference...
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Redrawing borders
In my water research, reading about states fighting over water allotments, I’ve begun to wonder about our need for borders. Are our geo-political borders really representative of the needs of...
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More on empathy + McEwan
It seems quite clear to me that we are instinctively moral beings. We have a marvelous gift, and you see it in children, this ability to be aware that other people have minds that are just like your...
View ArticleA letter
Fort Humboldt, Cal. May 24th 1856 To Capt. S.R. Jones Asst. Adjt. Genl. USA Benicia, Cal. Sir. An express recently arrived from Lieut. Rundell on Klamath river represents the Indians as perfectly quiet...
View ArticleDead man walking
I had no idea that CNN had gotten into the short story writing business. This is a short story by Borges if I ever one: Gilberto Araujo heard rumors that he had died. So [he] decided to go to his...
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In case you somehow missed Flavorwire’s The 30 Harshest Author on Author Insults in History: Faulkner on Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary....
View ArticleKate Southwood says / tornado
1. You have to show up. During the writing of my debut novel, I heard Per Petterson give a talk. During the Q&A, a woman asked Mr. Petterson about his writing habits and how he gets his work done....
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weekend silliness: Clinton loves Newsom
I’m sure this is totally real… Maybe this should have gone on the Tumblr, but I can’t seem to really get into Tumblr. I’m too chatty for it, I guess.
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Blue Marble maps
I don’t get sentimental about much, but I get sentimental about the planet. I found this animation of NASA’s Blue Marble images on 40 maps that explain the world. Incidentally, there was another map...
View Articlefire & ice
I’ve got an art installation for ya: It’s difficult for geologists to witness the flow of lava on snow- and ice-covered volcanos, so researchers with the Syracuse University Lava Project decided to...
View Articleenhanced hammer
As the art market becomes increasingly liquid, investors are willing to pay more for art: an asset class which used to be very hard to sell is now much easier to turn into cash. That makes it more...
View ArticleReal scary stuff
I’ve been trying to find something to top last year’s pumpkin treat from Negativland, and stumbled into this phenomenon. I am very pleased with what I discovered – a niche that is truly hilarious yet...
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real elves
Oh no. Santa’s real workshop: the town in China that makes the world’s Christmas decorations Our yuletide myth-making might like to imagine that Christmas is made by rosy-cheeked elves hammering away...
View ArticleTo hell with good intentions
Next to money and guns, the third largest North American export is the US idealist, who turns up in every theater of the world: the teacher, the volunteer, the missionary, the community organizer, the...
View Articlemutual knowledge
[Mutual knowledge is] the difference between two people knowing something and each one knowing that the other knows that they know that the other knows ad infinitum. Which makes both a logical and a...
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nothing burger
Pretty much the most unexpected popularization of slang ever: Anne Gorsuch Burford was an American attorney and politician. Between 1981 and 1983, she served under President Ronald Reagan as the first...
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