June 2008
37 posts
F.A.S.T. Corp - Fiberglass Animals, Shapes... →
FAST makes those giant roadside things, INCLUDING the Sinclair Dinos. Road trip, anyone?
Sinclair Dinos →
It’s a long-term goal of mine and Erika’s to have one of these in our backyard.
June 28, 2008: Gibbon on History and early... →
“History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or…
A-Z finger puppets →
Kayleigh’s ongoing finger puppet project. This is where the good photos are, people.
First Flight for the Google Lunar X PRIZE →
A Romanian outfit is sending a robot to the moon. If NASA can’t be bothered, then bring on the private sector!
Where to view Olafur Eliasson's Watefalls project →
Saved for my trip to the city later this summer. OE’s work is really great, and it’s the kind of thing that needs to be experienced in person.
June 25, 2008: Stevenson on an old pirate's piety →
“Now, for instance, you wouldn’t think I had had a pious mother - to look at me? … but I had - remarkable pious. And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you…
Vertigo: a Tumblr theme inspired by Saul Bass →
Matt Buchanan follows the Master.
Watch the Taipei 101 damper ball move during the... →
I’ve seen this thing in person: 1. It’s huuuge, and 2. It doesn’t look like it EVER moves. Which just shows how wild this earthquake was.
June 23, 2008: Waugh on Hints and Symbols →
“Perhaps, I thought, while her words still hung in the air between us like a wisp of tobacco smoke - a thought to fade and vanish like smoke without a trace - perhaps all our loves are merely hints…
June 22, 2008: Waugh on Social Uneasiness →
“Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of general embarassment about himself in which he floated with…
June 21, 2008: Waugh on New York →
“We lay in our twin beds, a yard or two distant, smoking. I looked at my watch; it was four o’clock, but neither of us was ready to sleep, for in that city there is neurosis in the air which the…
June 20, 2008: Waugh on modern education →
“But yesterday I got a regular eye-opener. The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what’s been taught and…
Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We... →
I’m serious, people, the Mars Phoenix Rover twitter feed is one of the best things on the internet.
June 19, 2008: Waugh describes a short vacation →
“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly—perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.”
- Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1945
Sigur Rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust →
translation (not really): listen to the new Sigur Ros album here.
The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an... →
Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers
Kottke links up the Vestimentis Ursum project →
Thanks, Jason. Another link for the ego file …
YouTube - The Highest 6 Star Hotel in the World... →
I’m pretty sure this is fake, but still: what a monstrosity!
Marilynne Robinson has a new book coming out in... →
I thought I’d have to wait another twenty years. Even better, it’s related to the Boughton character from Gilead.
How To Stop Paying for Gas and Run on Free... →
Bookmarking for Erika, who is totally fascinated by this idea. We’re going to travel the world using only cooking oil, a VW bus, and love.
Arcane book terms glossary →
Saving this to assist with my old book addiction; don’t bother clicking if you’ve got anything remotely more interesting to look at.
A mysterious gravestone →
Yep, you can sign me up for one of these. Please.
June 10, 2008: Jiang Rong on the Rapacity of Man... →
The author of Wolf Totem writes with this extemely odd voice, as if all characters from the book are reading from the same set of stern lecture notes: “At that moment he sensed how rapacious and…
Work Hard & Be Nice to People →
add this one to your christmas wishlists, people. But shoot, £20?
June 7, 2008: Dede Korkut on Death →
“When dark death comes, may he give you a fair passage.”
- Dede Korkut (attributed), The Book of Dede Korkut, trans. Geoffrey Lewis, circa 1000.
June 6, 2008: Dede Korkut has some nice tricks →
The tenth-century Orghuz Turks have a nice version of “to make a long story short:” “The horse’s hoof is fleet as the wind; the minstrel’s tongue is swift as a bird.”
And Dede Korkut also has this…
HERE is that NYT politics graphic. →
Obviously it was only on the front page for a day.
John Hendrix's "Doomsday" illustration receives... →
Even rocket scientists recognize nice drawings when they see them. Oh, and can we talk about that lovely Akzidenz Grotesk logo, Bulletin?
YOU MUST GO TODAY to see the really good... →
It covers who voted for Obama v. Clintion. I can’t find a permanent link to it, so check it out there. Way to go Amanda Cox and Shawn Carter!