Taste
I have this feeling that some works of art are good, because I like them, and some aren’t,...
Nov 23rd
SMBC. (Hover over the red button for the recipe.)
Nov 22nd
“Hegelian kiss: dialiptical technique in which the kiss...”
— The Philosophy of Kissing. ...
— The Philosophy of Kissing. ...
Nov 21st
That's what they said
Nov 21st
The Absinthe Drinker (1901), by Viktor Oliva.
Nov 21st
FYI: this song is the opposite of Norway.
That is all.
Nov 21st
On Go
Nov 20th
A clock made of scrollbars. Gallery. (via mefi)
Nov 19th
Watch
I hadn’t seen this Levi’s ad before I stumbled on a blog post about it, but apparently...
Nov 17th
I’m going to respond to this post by Ryan Irvine, because I think it’s a sloppy critique...
Nov 17th
Planet of the Hats
Nov 16th
Fail better
Nov 16th
The Comic Strip Doctor
Nov 15th
Pataphor
Nov 15th
“He was engaged in a serious search for the meaning of his...”
— From The Wind-up Bird...
— From The Wind-up Bird...
Nov 13th
1989!
Nov 12th
Why Do We Dream? Five Modern Theories.
Nov 12th
You know Mandelbrot, right? It’s a set of points that,...
Nov 12th
I’m absolutely fascinated by the picture of the human...
Nov 10th
Correlation implies Causation
An often repeated mantra is this: correlation does not imply causation. This is wrong. In An...
Nov 9th
Linguashmucks
Nov 8th
(Thanks to everything in the sky for reminding me of Tom...
Nov 6th
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us...”
— Vladimir Nabokov. Do we view...
— Vladimir Nabokov. Do we view...
Nov 5th
By Joel Sternfeld.
Nov 5th
Friendly advice: if you ever decide to photograph these...
Nov 5th
There’s an Ampersand Mountain in New York State, which “takes its name from nearby...
Nov 5th
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, someone once said. It’s one of those...
Nov 4th
Designer Blogs
Magazines and newspapers have had three hundred years to figure out the balance between content and...
Nov 4th
From Road trip by Christophe Kutner. (via artsandcrafts)
Nov 3rd
I’m feeling particularly galaxy today. (Sorry for...
Nov 2nd
“If you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy...”
— Andy Warhol.
— Andy Warhol.
Nov 2nd
Speaking of old slides, this set of slides from the...
Nov 2nd
Truman Capote, 1947, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Photo via...
Nov 1st
London, 1949. Photo by Chalmers Butterfield; his son...
Nov 1st