Archive for March, 2008
Anne Shirley Forever
Whoah, Anne of Green Gables is a hundred years old!
The Guardian celebrates with an essay by Margaret Atwood which includes gems like:
The book was an instant success when it first appeared — Anne “is the dearest and most loveable child in fiction since the immortal Alice”, growled crusty, cynical Mark Twain […]
(I was going to quote more, but it won’t make any sense if you’re not an Anne-fan. And if you are, you’ll just want to read the whole thing.)
The Seeker
Yeah yeah, I know, I’m biased — but this piece on Al Gore and the election is good. And largely correct, it seems to me.
(This is my first link ever found via Twitter!)
The Art of War
New pod from my pal Tracey Chang at Current. Her reports are some of my favorite, mostly because she’s so natural — and frankly sometimes nervous — that it feels like one of your friends in the field.
Watch for the guerrilla “family portrait.”
Past Remastered
Check out the video for Justice’s DVNO — it’s a mega-mashup of ‘80s tele-typography, except way more gorgeous than than stuff ever really was.
(Via, umm, Jonathan Hoefler? Awesome.)
OMG CSM ARG
Quoted a bit in Ben Arnoldy’s Christian Science Monitor story about the new Olympics alternate reality game. “It was a regular Friday at the office…”
Lippman/Dewey
Latest elite magazine story on the Huffington Post and the death of newspapers: so-so.
Rex’s identification of the dueling public philosophies of Walter Lippman and John Dewey as the most interesting idea in the piece: excellent.
(I’d write more about am on the road. Look for a follow-up sometime soon.)
But Can It Vacuum My Floor
Forgot where I ran across this, but I was reminded today of the typeface Champion Script Pro, “the most advanced and powerful script ever made. Developed over a period of two and a half years, each one of the 2 weights is loaded with 4253 glyphs (now 4280 glyphs).” What does that mean? It means the typeface is programmed to dynamically adjust glyphs to complement each other in a given word. All for just €175.
For a Limited Time: Actual Snark on Snarkmarket
I love this Ask MeFi thread listing retorts to common sayings. Among my favorites:
| Saying | Retort |
|---|---|
| You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. | But you catch the most with bullshit. |
| There’s no “I” in “team.” | Yeah, but there’s an “m” and an “e.” |
| The squeaky wheel gets the oil. | It’s also the first to get replaced. |
| The early bird gets the worm. | But the early worm gets eaten. |
NMA Winners ’07
HuffPo stole my candy: National Mag Awards winners for ’07. (Fimoculicious.)
Just Under the Surface
[Quoting Melissa Harris-Lacewell.] “One of the things fascinating to me watching these responses to Jeremiah Wright is that white Americans find his beliefs so fringe or so extreme. When if you