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Six degrees of literary separation? [via] If nothing else, I think this elaborte fake ATM is proof that you don’t need a carefully designed forgery to fool a lot of people. [via] The Cracked Guide to Fonts [via] You know, I’m sure Tin House‘s heart was in the right place with this prove you bought a book somewhere before . . . → Read More: Wednesday various Go on, ask me anything. This future of publishing ad — which I’m seeing re-posted everywhere — is clever. And sure, the whole “death of publishing” thing is all in how you look at it. But, at the same time — and watch the video before you read this — I found it . . . → Read More: Thursday various How to use a semicolon [via] A Muppet Wicker Man [via] A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things [via] Why DRM Doesn’t Work [via] And finally, how can you not like a short-short story that starts “Some time after sharks took over . . . → Read More: Monday various So first the Discovery Channel created this commercial, which was actually kind of awesome. It was set to the tune of a traditional campire song (which was itself set to the tune of Hoagy Carmichael’s “Heart and Soul”). And then Randall Munroe created this webcomic, riffing off the commerical, which was itself pretty awesome. And now . . . → Read More: Monday various I think the most interesting thing about this new Dante’s Inferno video game — which itself sounds pretty silly, a mashup that misses the point of both sides — is this quote: “We look at companies like Walt Disney, where they’ve got intellectual properties that feel like their own, but are based on literature from a time . . . → Read More: Monday various A whole lot of talk today has been about Apple’s new iPad. (You shouldn’t have any trouble finding plenty of links on your own.) Almost despite myself, I’m guardedly optimistic about its future and genuinely interested in its application — in a way, I should add, that I generally wasn’t interested in the iPhone. I think . . . → Read More: Wednesday various Scientists develop ‘golden fleece’ lozenge to fight off all cold and flu bugs [via]: The pill, which would cost 20 pence a day and would be taken once before breakfast, could be sold over the counter in as little as two years. “Most expensive” foods like this often seem like a cheat to me — of course it’s . . . → Read More: Tuesday various These comic strip mashups are just terrific. [via] McSweeney’s: Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer”?: For agreeing to help lift the contraption, we have been given exclusive access to what experts are already calling “a device which emits sound and is not filled with bees.” It’s kind of a one-note joke. And while it’s obviously parodying the idea of . . . → Read More: Wednesday various Keith Phipps on Jeremy Piven: When did it go wrong? When did the caustic character actor guaranteed to liven up even the dullest movie turn into a walking black hole of smarm from which no joy can escape? I’m guessing sometime around the beginning of Entourage. I am strangely unimpressed by this LEGO dreamhouse. [via] Much . . . → Read More: Tuesday various Patrick Nielsen Hayden on Apple’s ruthless control of content and commerce on the iPhone: Indeed, Apple is best understood as the Singapore of technological ecosystems—smart, forward-looking, and every so often you get caned for . . . → Read More: That’s one way of putting it |
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