January 2012
6 posts
The Joy of Quiet →
youmightfindyourself:
By PICO IYER NY Times Published: December 29, 2011
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside....
December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
11 posts
Oh IE
file under: ffs
nicoperez:
I just spent 3 hours tracking down an obscure Internet Explorer bug. For those curious web developers amongst you:
IE can only load 30 stylesheets at once, after which it lists the sheets in the page source, but just ignores them.
Oh how I love you IE
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig (via iamilliterate)
“‘It was really strange, they were holding hands, and dad stopped breathing but I...”
– Couple married for 72 years die holding hands. (via indiaknight)
PEG 2.0: Thoughts on Jobs →
pegobry:
First of all, shut the heck up about “open” or about how it’s sad that we’re mourning a maker of gadgets. Computing did change the world concretely, massively, and Steven P. Jobs had a massive hand in that. And the death of a man is NOT the time to wield hatchets.
I was never an Apple fanboy….
He’s right. Though I may have something in my eye and not able to read very...
September 2011
2 posts
disappointed
I saw a fantastic tumblr post via a link on Twitter. I wanted to re-post and heart it but the mobile site wouldn’t allow me to log in, only register (huh?) and the tumblr app doesn’t allow you to search for blogs by keyword.
Dumb. Frustrating. Poor user experience.
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
3 posts
“I wrote the first chapter of Northern Lights sixteen times before I added the...”
– Yesterday evening I went to hear Philip Pullman in conversation with novelist Maggie Gee, for a charity fundraiser to help save the Kensal Rise library.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say His Dark Materials changed my life. Two years ago, I attempted to write a novel so Pullman-esque in tone...
June 2011
5 posts
HeardinLondon: Some things bereavement has taught... →
heardinlondon:
I wanted to pen something as I am learning to steer my course through what I suspected to be one of the toughest things in my life, but this journey isn’t the one I anticipated. Or to be more precise, it is not the one I think Hollywood had lead me to expect. Yes, losing my mum is rotten, and yes…
May 2011
3 posts
"You think graffiti is ugly? Gigantic posters of...
michellereece:
April 2011
6 posts
“I find Twitter to be the most powerful aggregator of sheer novelty that humanity...”
– William Gibson (via azspot)
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March 2011
7 posts
