bauldoff:

In awe of The Beatles: Rock Band opening cinematic by the consistently out-of-this-world Passion Pictures.

This is amazing. Watch it in HD at the link above. Watch it now.

bauldoff:

In awe of The Beatles: Rock Band opening cinematic by the consistently out-of-this-world Passion Pictures.

This is amazing. Watch it in HD at the link above. Watch it now.

Just Irresistible: Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle

Tor.com’s Jo Walton writes on how much she loves Dodie Smith’s first novel.

I Capture the Castle is one of the best books about how people form relationships I’ve ever read, and it has one of the best first person voices in the history of the universe.

I read I Capture the Castle last fall on Ashley’s advice. It really is a delightful book — and one that everyone should read.

Pushing Daisies returns on October 1. I cannot wait.
Now this is how you sell a book. The NYT has a slideshow of old book ads from the Sixties and Seventies.

You’ve got Gonzo here (with a long, glowing blurb from Vonnegut, which is awesome) plus a bunch of other authors including Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion.

(Via kottke, of course. Get off my back.)

Now this is how you sell a book. The NYT has a slideshow of old book ads from the Sixties and Seventies.

You’ve got Gonzo here (with a long, glowing blurb from Vonnegut, which is awesome) plus a bunch of other authors including Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Joan Didion.

(Via kottke, of course. Get off my back.)

Unicode Characters as Named and Numeric HTML Entities

If you’ve ever wondered, “Hey, I need to know how to encode this Unicode character in HTML,” this is your site — a big honkin’ list of every Unicode entity encoding in both hex and decimal.