May 2008
41 posts
Aesthletics: Game Designers Should Create More New... →
I think people make up their own sports all the time - but it’s just nerdy kids who don’t fit in with regular sports that play them. And it happens in card cames, too!
May 30, 2008: Williams reminds us that Heaven is... →
“ANNE. My neck is small: will the King have it cut? He loved me—once. CRANMER. Madam, repent, confess, entreat; the King is gracious. THE SKELETON. Heaven is gracious, but few can can draw safe…
May 31, 2008: Williams on the rage of controversy... →
“How absolute we are! now in your night is there no ravage? does nothing, Thomas, roar like seas or winds or the crowds of the poor marching? is all hushed down to those sweet-sounding collects …
Daniel Schipper designed a really sweet folding... →
This project is eerily similar to one I did for photo storage a few years ago. Both use the same grade of polyproplyene, and the same Danish folding pattern. Neat!
Marian Bantjes' proposal for a heraldic system in... →
Nate and I were discussing heraldry (shut up! We’re geeks and designers, we know.) and this came up in conversation. So brilliant.
May 29, 2008: Reading a little Chesterton on his... →
“To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors, and holidays; to be Whitely within a certain area, providing toys, boots, cakes, and books; to be Aristotle within a…
COLLAPSE DESIGN shirts →
love that Sex, Drugs, Helvetica Bold shirt.
HillaryClinton.com had a contest for T-shirt... →
and the top five are disturbingly bad. Really!
The Mars Phoenix is twittering. In the first... →
How do those rocket scientists do all that technical stuff, and still have time to do cute promotional things too?
May 27, 2008: Kenney on The Judeo-Christian... →
“Of course they’d need an Omnipotent god. Look whom He’d have to pardon.”
- Richard Kenney, ‘The Judeo-Christian Tradition’ from The One-Strand River, 2008.
May 27, 2008: Kenney gets cute →
“… They live in a hell of marvels: fierce, Fully automated joys. The prowess of their engineers Is justly fabled. They’ve leapt to the nearest Lamps of night. Such chasms spanned!— Too black…
May 26, 2008: Kenney on modern aesthetics →
“… Occasional volcanoes in the parlor, yawn. Arterial Blood weeping the walls, rising above the ankles Curdles in the drains and pupils. Ad nauseam! It kills Sensation in the extremities. And…
FontStruct is a build-your-own font tool, which... →
I haven’t played with it yet, but I’m bookmarking it for future investigation.
The UCSD Arts Library runs a pretty decent blog! →
who knew?
HECK YES my silly toy project got picked up by the... →
Yes, it’s just the humor blog, but still. I’m just going to say that over and over. The New York Times. The New York Times. The New York Times.
May 22, 2008: Williams rewrites Ecclesiastes,... →
ADAM addresses the followers of wealth and wisdom: “ADAM. Dullards of darkness, light’s lazybones Poor primitives of our natural bareness, where’s your awareness? will moans and groans for gold of…
The LOST island is a mirror matter moon. →
OK, forget the timeloop theory; THIS is now the most convincing theory site I’ve seen. It’s almost answers too much.
russell davies turns his MacBook Pro into a... →
with blackboard paint and chalk. Chalk! I love it.
May 18, 2008: C.S. Lewis on politics →
“Why should quiet ruminants as you and I have been born in such a ghastly age? Let me palliate the apparent selfishness of this complain by asserting that there are people, who, while not, of…
May 18, 2008: C.S. Lewis plays with words... →
- ‘What do you keep on arguing for? I’m only telling you the sort of chap I am. I only want my rights. I’m not asking for anybody’s bleeding charity.’ - ‘Then do. At once. Ask for the Bleeding…
Mimique Cell Phone: iPhone Challenger? →
OK,it’s not really going to challenge the iPhone. But darn if that’s not a pretty phone! Nice work, RKS.
Matt's got a new pair of heroes. →
Martin & Osa Johnson, a husband and wife duo from Kansas, explored the world, wrote books, made films, and generally got paid to have adventures.
A 48-year-old man from Switzerland has... →
It’s not quite the personal plane just yet. But it’s a good start.
May 10, 2008: Garcia Marquez describes the doctor... →
Introducing the doctor Abrenuncio: “His disputes with other physicians, who would not forgive his incredible successes or uncommon methods, were constant and bloody. He had invented a pill to be…
ReadyMade: make an orange net bowl →
Ooh, I like this. Let’s make twenty!
Extensive collection of old illustrations, on... →
saved for future reference.
The New York Times and Chip Kidd's Higher Power... →
So brilliant.
Ovejas Telefónicas →
These telephone sheep are pretty stunning. It’s such a great use of materials.
Heck YES Pok Chi Lau has a website. And a new... →
Pok Chi was definitely one of my favorite professors at KU.
Fascinating article on invention and innovation... →
Still doesn’t shake my conviction that ideas are cheap and execution is hard, though.
WatchFrom Target to Vons
Garrett Dimon walks us through some really nice... →
There’s some nice stuff in there, from Getting Satisfaction
The inherent personal risk in any given situation... →
I’m going to share this with Erika next time she frets about me going into tunnels. Or wait, maybe that’s why she worries…
The world's first bionic sea creature: Winter the... →
Seriously, who’s buying this? Not me, that’s for sure. We know that dolphins are all robots, anyway.
May 2, 2008: Rodchenko sets us straight. →
“Enough depicting, time to build.”
- Alexander Rodchenko, via the internet