One of my pet peeves is when people misspell my name. Even though the alternate spelling is far, far less common, people invariably use the wrong one in emails.
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Visual interlude
links for 2008-03-19
- Arthur Clarke’s 2001 Diary
- Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps – fiction written and designed for Google Maps
- Alvin Lustig, Modern American Design Pioneer
- Blue Note: Over a 1000 covers
- Playing to Type – by Virginia Postrel
- How local TV embraced fake news – excerpt from True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
- Another Musician Who Recognizes The Concept Of True Fans
- How to Think – managing brain resources in an age of complexity
- Overcoming Barriers to Creativity
- New DVDs: Georges M̩li̬s РGeorges M̩li̬s: First Wizard of Cinema (1896-1913) is a major act of scholarship that brings together surviving M̩li̬s films from eight countries.
links for 2008-03-18
- What Gordon Ramsay can teach software developers
- Woman’s World – The new novel, by author Graham Rawle, is composed entirely of phrases clipped from women’s magazines of the ’60s
- Ars Book Reviews: The Best of Technology Writing 2007
- Question your work – These are questions we ask each other before, during, and sometimes after we work on something.
- Good is the enemy of great
links for 2008-03-14 through 2008-03-17
- Mixotic - a netlabel for free DJ sets
- Pricked: Extreme Embroidery
- Buddhism By The Numbers
- Nerdfotainment – all of the content shares a common characteristic: it’s terribly complex and nerds enjoy making it more so.
- Physics report-card for science fiction movies
- Weekend Inspiration: Martin Böttger’s Ever-Changing Geometries
- Designers Without Borders – A socially-conscious online network that allows ideas and concepts to be shared for the betterment of our world.
- Humanity’s Identity Crises – A major theme of this present century will be the pursuit of our collective identity.
- Pascal Blanchet