February 2012
‘Divers’, A short animation by Paris Mavroidis →
Highlights from Six Years of My Search History →
Highlights from six years of my Google search history
Cronenberg’s CRASH and The Examination of Deviancy →
This is the good Crash
Unmarked As Read
Here are a few things I keep marking as unread in my Reader. Click each one to see more.
Hyper-Real Paintings of Hilo Chen. There’s a bunch of these, some with nips, so be warned.
Martin Klimas drops stuff and takes amazing photos of them. This one is pretty rad, but go to his site to see even better ones.
Daniel Danger’s illustrations make me think of a story about a girl...
Charles Dickens liked to walk →
Like up to 20 miles in a single day.
Dickens was from childhood an avid, even compulsive, walker. He once wrote. “I think I must be the descendant, at no great distance, of some irreclaimable tramp.” Scarcely a day went by that Dickens didn’t flee his desk and take to the streets of London and its suburbs. He routinely walked as many as 20 miles a day, and once set out at 2...
Sheer Elegance in its Simplicity →
And so it was, that at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con, that the entire cast had a table read for the 13th episode, the unaired season finale, in front of thousands of fans. It was as humorous, heartwarming, and ultimately as optimistic as the rest of the show was. Immediately after, it was announced that a comic for that final episode would be released. The show had come full...
“The only copy protection I need is the fact that tomorrow’s comic doesn’t exist...”
– RStevens on Kickstarter explaining why he’s releasing his forthcoming Diesel Sweeties ebook DRM-free. (via dianakimball)
Oh R.Stevens, you my hero.
Calling It Quits: Why I Deactivated My Facebook... →
Proper Spelling? Its Tyme to Let Luce! →
No, it’s not.
The whole thing kind of angered me, and the end of that second-to-last paragraph made me shudder in disgust.
I’m all for new words, but there’s a reason it’s “you’re” instead of “your” or (vomit) “UR”. Laziness is no excuse to change a language just because someone can’t be bothered to take less than a second...
