June 2008
13 posts
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magazines
i love nice magazines with their layouts and their ideas.  i guess it is also their alluring “don’t you want to read about things you never knew you cared about?” and “we know this is a really generic headline but you will thumb through to page 142 to see if it really is that good!”  the allure of magazines for me is a lot to do with the temporal nautre of their...
Jun 24th
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Jun 23rd
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Steven Poole: Fugitive pieces →
“I think that at least potentially (and demonstrably for many authors), the prospect of the writing appearing in book form makes a writer try her very best, because of this confluence of timescale, technology and social context. The very permanence of the physical book format has for centuries pushed writers to raise their game. The prospect today of blogging elbowing out other forms of writing...
Jun 19th
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the first annual nzff club
(and may be extended to other film festivals, who knows?) the aim of the group is to actually see more than 1 film festival movie and not have to cast around madly for someone to see it with.  i doubt i can actually get to all the below so  register interest or suggest other films by emailing me  (if you don’t know my email address, you definitely can’t be in the club). these are the...
Jun 18th
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wanted: an epiphany
i am so bored of this website.  i’m bored of considering lifestreams and blogs and linklogs and the bits and pieces and posting an occasional photo and not having things all in one place but needing to continue the community aspects of those sites which do it better than i could reproduce. what to do?  what should this become? i have always believed that if there is content you want and...
Jun 18th
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diy worry →
So today we have a man coming to fix the hole in our driveway.  [read more at diy.dontcom.com]
Jun 18th
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“Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes.”
– Kevin Kelly — The Technium post “Scenius, or Communal Genius”
Jun 15th
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[corner store] kareenazerefos.com →
beautiful prints and cards
Jun 15th
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Fictional stars get a makeover →
I think this is just sad.  I loved Scooby Doo and Strawberry Shortcake just how they were!
Jun 12th
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Jun 9th
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A homage to "velvet touch" lettering from Design... →
& so help me if i don’t love this lettering with my whole heart!  if anyone has any lying around that they would like to donate to a good cause please let me know!
Jun 9th
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How the Web Was Won: an oral history from Vanity... →
Jun 8th
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Jun 1st