2008

Piracy Vs. Theft

Clay Shirky on Gin, TV and Cognitive Surplus...

What's your Thoreau speed?

Infoviz slideshow

Are You the Worker Who Jammed the Pen...

Can’t believe this is the first time I’ve...

Making Actresses Even More Fake...

Handling adversity

IMAGE OF THE DAY: The Seals Have 'Eyes'

Merlin Mann: What Makes for a Good Blog?

People Who Live in Malls

Design and the Elastic Mind by Hugh Aldersey-Williams

“Now that Brooklyn has been officially sanctioned as...”
— http://www.bookforum.com/archiv...

“This whole scene is cast in an immensely unflattering light...”
— Gerald Howard on Gilbert...

A Chart-Based Review of Andrew Kuo’s Latest...

iPod Vending Machine

Library of Dust

Vintage business signs

Who Is The Solzhenitsyn Of China, Anyway?...

Milton's 400th anniversary.

Washington Post: Why NBC’s Olympic Coverage...

double standard

National Geographic Map of the Day

Scholars: Kafka's Porn Stash Wasn't...

Doma Cafe & Gallery (2)/5) on Yelp.com

Tiny's Giant Sandwich Shop (4)/5) on...

68 Jay St Bar (3)/5) on Yelp.com

Edward Tufte’s Critique of iPhone Interfaces

Paul McCarthy : Flush Twice and Light a Giant...

Ghang Thai (3)/5) on Yelp.com

The Brazen Head (3)/5) on Yelp.com

Nicky's Vietnamese Sandwiches (3)/5) on...

Viral Video Film Schools

Every Print Diva Must Have A Website...

Bohemian Hall Beer Garden (3)/5) on Yelp.com

Taverna Kyclades (4)/5) on Yelp.com

Huckleberry Bar (3)/5) on Yelp.com

Falafel Chula (3)/5) on Yelp.com

“But, like many public figures who are so reliably excellent...”
— ‘How Fiction...

Building on Bond (4)/5) on Yelp.com

“We hear a lot about the “tragedy of the commons”: if a...”
— The Permission Problem:...

A $1000 iPhone app that does absolutely nothing. While the...

Geek Love: Google employee uses Google Street...

Careers: The Rehabilitation Of Bob Pittman

“Through its complex orchestration of time and space no less...”
— City of Nodes

Tina Brown To Release The Beast...

Hamlet, the Facebook News Feed edition...

Neal Stephenson's new novel makes me want to...

Geek Love: Google employee uses Google Street...

Design Observer: Michael Bierut on the...

How Blade Runner Predicted Modern...

Graziella's (1)/5) on Yelp.com

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: CORRECTIONS TO...

The 10 oddest travel guides ever published.

“There’s a psychedelic quality, too, to David’s writing and...”
— Is David Carr a Truth Junkie?...

Loving Pet Food (4)/5) on Yelp.com

Either that or PR

The decline of newspapers has nothing to do...

New website bills itself as "a conservative...

Broken Borders: Canadian Menace Washes Up in...

“Naomi Klein’s relentless lumping together of all her...”
— Dead Left

a great old video clip of Stephen Metcalf,...

Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling -...

NYT: Penalty for China Quake Photos Reported

Privacy advocates nearly publish guide to...

Little Piggy Market (4)/5) on Yelp.com

1 in 5 marketers think they've bought news...

Tech insiders learn the outside sucks...

Who needs the tech IPO?

Banning fast food in poor neighborhoods.

Hipsters = hippies - subversion + Twitter...

Clinton Restaurant (2)/5) on Yelp.com

Exformation

New article in Reason mag: The Afterlife of...

THE SCOURGE OF PADDED NONFICTION

carr

Bystander culture

Newspaper Interns Get Good Advice [Media]

Joy Indian Restaurant (2)/5) on Yelp.com

Online Literacy: Just As Important As The Old...

Please Buy This Gentrification-Kit! [Class...

Objectified, a film about industrial design

Canadian Oil

Google hits 1 trillion URLs, skips trillions...

"Last Lecture" professor dead at 47 [Randy...

How to watch Evelyn Waugh.

'Esquire' E-Cover Scratches Hearst's Green...

Modern libraries

SnagFilms: Best Thing for Docs Since Netflix...

Robin Des Bois (3)/5) on Yelp.com

Chestnut (5)/5) on Yelp.com

Layla Jones (2)/5) on Yelp.com

Ghost towns

Azuri Cafe (4)/5) on Yelp.com

kerfluffle at britannica.com

From Sig To Noise: Misforgivings of the...

Seed Magazine has posted Noah Kalina's photos...

How to Frame the Internet: Attention and the...

Is James Wood Really That Good? [Books]

Citizen journalists rush to fill Internet's...

SnagFilms: Best Thing for Docs Since Netflix...

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education,...

Is The Bad Economy Killing The Business Meme?...

The Magazine Harbinger

Whitewashing a Cartoon Rats Message About...

Nono Kitchen (3)/5) on Yelp.com

Mission hipsters choose Google as their new...

“‘There’s a dream that underlying the physical...”
— “Surfing the...

Bright-Eyed Young Literary Woman Leaves New...

Sean Tevis

Wsj: Business Leaders Appear To Be Worried

Literary Light Heavyweight Battle About to...

Future of Criticism

● The most beautiful suicide

Women's Studies: Does the fairer sex need its...

Explained: Why people love to hate the New...

Be Nice To Writers Or They'll Give You A...

The iPhone Line Book Club

NonSociety Backlash

The Periodic Table of Videos

“The job, for nearly all members of the Gawker family,...”
— Vidiot Tumble - I Finally Get...

"Poster Boy": Artist, Vandal, Maker Of Funny...

“Let the user decide what are the great ideas,” says...”
— Big Think’s Peter...

“Beijing is flat and sprawling and smoggy and jammed with...”
— From Mao to Wow!:...

Advice from Patton Oswalt's commencement...

"After a million dollars, you have no...

“The web, after all, was designed by a chap (Tim Berners-Lee)...”
— John Naughton: I Google,...

“Scientists, like journalists, are called upon to plumb the...”
— Yellow Science - WSJ.com

“The trophy-art economy is a global phenomenon.”
— Postcards from Nowhere

“The newest addition to the collection is Michael...”
— Michael Heller’s...

Whistler, Twachtman, and “the Art of Painting...

“We had a bad day when Dolly was cloned,” says Denise...”
— The weird science of stock...

Fun pairings from the SEED Salon (video)

“Many of today’s leading theorists, such as E. O....”
— Tom Wolfe in SEED, via Edge...

An interesting David Remnick interview by...

Jack the Horse Tavern (4)/5) on Yelp.com

Lamest Edit Wars

However it may seem, this speed hump in Philadelphia is...

NYer's Remnick isn't interested in moving on...

Watch the growth of Wal-Mart across the...

“The legacy Usenet leaves behind is that some of the worst...”
— Usenet: How everyone ruined...

“No one likes you, leverage. You exemplify all that is wrong...”
— Incisive.nu

“What makes this book, bred of a midlife crisis,...”
— Collections of Nothing:...

● POW camp economics

The Girls of Jezebel

“So much of what passes for quality writing online these days...”
— And I Am Not Lying » Blog...

“The popular history of a humdrum object—that faddish genre...”
— Drink: A Cultural History of...

Burp Castle (2)/5) on Yelp.com

How to bitch about your big break in the New...

Writing advice from Zadie Smith: write it...

Abrams: Book sections need to be...

An iconography of the general store

Jason Calcanis gives the mgmt take on...

“TubeMogul, the leading web video distribution and analytics...”
— Ranked: Top 40 Web Video...

Everybody Loves Rea Irvin

Cityfile, The Who's Who Of New York [Things...

“One patient with whom he had been making progress, Dr....”
— http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/...

writers and the underground

Flickr set of the cover designs for the 3rd...