July 2009
21 posts
June 2009
18 posts
Why Outlaw Outdoor Dining? →
Hong Kong is trying to ban outdoor dining on the island. Tragic!
The blue and the green →
This is just bonkers.
Not Every Child Is Secretly a Genius →
“The theory of multiple intelligences fundamentally conflates intelligence and motivation. It’s a fatal flaw.”
Watcha day at foodbank
First Things takes on Thomas Kincaide →
The way he renders the trees is the big giveaway, in my opinion.
Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation.... →
Maybe I’m in the mood for saturday morning cartoons, but this is the funniest thing I’ve seen all week. Katie Couric is such a good singer!
Lincoln One-Cent Redesign →
Are you KIDDING me? It’s like we’re trying to have the ugliest money on the planet. And succeeding.
CUSTOM LETTERS - FIRST HALF 2009 — LetterCult →
“… the good, the great, and the notable stuff we’ve seen so far in 2009.” Inspiration for my little Catechism Project.
June 17, 2009: The peasants' refrain →
I absolutely love this. At first it seemed awkward, but as it repeats throughout the poem it becomes quite lovely - a beautiful, chorus-like refrain. It’s almost incantatory. “We argued and argued,
Latin Vulgate Bible with Douay-Rheims Side-by-Side →
Book Nerd Alert! This is a parallel translation of the Latin Vulgate (the translation British people were reading from, say, the seventh century to 1604). It’s all online, and yet I still feel the…
Marco Brambilla: Civilization →
An astoundingly complex video installation in an elevator. Elevator goes up, the video pans along with it, from hello to heaven. Beautiful and disturbing. I’d love to see this in person!
Best wedding invitation ever? →
Maybe.
June 2, 2009: Trueman on blog attacks →
“The gung-ho ferocity of blog attacks is often matched only by the oleaginous fawning of the webwarriors when encountered in the flesh, something which I confess has been, on occasion, a source of…