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.
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
Larkspur Press prints Kentucky books the old-fashioned way — with a real impact type, on fine paper, with hand-sewn bindings. We share some authors with them, but they mainly publish poetry and short fiction, with beautiful handmade engravings.
They serve an entirely different market than we do, but I’ve always loved their books. Perhaps I should organize a field trip to visit them.
A clip from Buffy the Animated Series has found its way onto the Web. Why couldn’t one of the big networks have picked this one up? (via Jack Shedd)
Telescopic Text
A cool little bit of JavaScript that shows how much a little copy editing and concision can change a piece of writing. (via matthewb)
Until that time … syphilis had been called the “French disease” in Italy and Germany, and the “Italian disease” in France. In addition, the Dutch called it the “Spanish disease”, the Russians called it the “Polish disease”, the Turks called it the “Christian disease” or “Frank disease” (frengi) and the Tahitians called it the “British disease”.
From this Wikipedia article while doing research for a press release. I guess we just name it after the people we don’t like? (My internship is teaching me the most fascinating things.)
The manhut. Want!
The State of the Web - Summer 2008
A beautiful and brilliant on what’s happening on the Internet these days. And set in a nice font! (via livejamie)
Debris
A manifesto of sorts about removing junk from blogs. Worth a read.
Everybody hurry and add Andy Gilmore to your feed readers. We need to get this kid on Tumblr, stat.
Wow. That stuff’s amazing.
Scanned Images, Engravings and Pictures From Old Books
This site is genius.
The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer’s hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man’s curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned. For example, you know that the capital of California is Sacramento, but you probably don’t remember how you learned it. This phenomenon, known as source amnesia, can also lead people to forget whether a statement is true. Even when a lie is presented with a disclaimer, people often later remember it as true.
The Power of Books by Mladen Penev. (via szymon)
It put me in a different mode. It slowed me down: ‘Look at this guy. He is all dressed up and he is in an abandoned building.’ I am here to put things back together.
Former detective Vernon J. Geberth on the symbolism of wearing a fine suit on the job, from this NYT article
