12 days ago
Rod Begbie : Shouts & Murmurs: The Plan - A *nearly* foolproof plan by Jack Handey. "The plan isn’t foolproof. For it to work, certain things must happen:" [via] #
Andy Baio : Jack Handey's The Plan - it's foolproof [via]
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3 month ago
Anil : Auto-Tune Goes Legit - Dedicated readers will recall me obsessing over and over-analyzing Auto-Tune in pop music earlier this year. It is, then, my pleasure to report that, thanks to the inestimable Sasha Frere-Jones, Auto-Tune analysis has gone legit. Behold, no less an author
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3 month ago
Anil : Auto-Tune Goes Legit - Dedicated readers will recall me obsessing over and over-analyzing Auto-Tune in pop music earlier this year. It is, then, my pleasure to report that, thanks to the inestimable Sasha Frere-Jones, Auto-Tune analysis has gone legit. Behold, no less an author
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4 month ago
Anil : Auto-Tune Goes Legit - Dedicated readers will recall me obsessing over and over-analyzing Auto-Tune in pop music earlier this year. It is, then, my pleasure to report that, thanks to the inestimable Sasha Frere-Jones, Auto-Tune analysis has gone legit. Behold, no less an author
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Anil : Auto-Tune Goes Legit - Dedicated readers will recall me obsessing over and over-analyzing Auto-Tune in pop music earlier this year. It is, then, my pleasure to report that, thanks to the inestimable Sasha Frere-Jones, Auto-Tune analysis has gone legit. Behold, no less an author
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14 month ago
philgyford : Profiles: Stealing Life: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - Long article about 'The Wire,' the show which is so good it ruins all other TV for you. (via Kottke)
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21 month ago
nelson : Wikipedia scandal - Senior editor for Wikipedia lied about his credentials. Wales has hired him as a community manager, says he doesn't care about the deception.
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21 month ago
philgyford : Gwenergy: Stage Fright - A good New Yorker article on stage fright and how it affects different people.
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26 month ago
jkottke : Praise be! The New Yorker seems to have reversed their position on splitting their articles up into multiple pages - Praise be! The New Yorker seems to have reversed their position on splitting their articles up into multiple pages...the articles from this week's issue all seem to be one-pagers (for example). Nice work.
philgyford : The New Yorker - There's lots of pointing at the redesign but few pointing out that links look like plain text. Precious bloody designers thinking links look "ugly", I bet. Hello? You're making a website, not a magazine! Come join us in the 21st century.
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29 month ago
jkottke : New Yorker article on Wikipedia - New Yorker article on Wikipedia. If you've been paying attention, there not a whole lot of new information, but it's a nice summary. "Whereas articles once made up about eighty-five per cent of the site's content, as of last October they represented seven
gleuschk : The New Yorker: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? - just talking about this yesterday with Greg and Mike
Paul Hammond : The New Yorker: Fact: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? - As Wattenberg put it, “People are talking about governance, not working on content.â€
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34 month ago
gleuschk : gladwell.com - the bloggers' pet columnist now also a blogger
merlinmann : gladwell.com - So far no kitty photos, drunken confessions, or "johari windows." Might take him a while to get a handle on the medium. (Watch this space.)
jimray : Malcolm Gladwell has a blog
Linkorama : gladwell.com - malcom gladwell blogs
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34 month ago
jimray : New Yorker cartoon anti-caption contest - Brilliant (also - MT search results should be RSS feeds - is there a plugin for this?)
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34 month ago
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell on "power law problems" like homelessness, auto pollution, and bad cops - Malcolm Gladwell on "power law problems" like homelessness, auto pollution, and bad cops. These problems have solutions which focus on the small number of hard-core cases, like the 5% of Denver vehicles that account for 55% of the city's automobile pollut
gleuschk : Million-dollar Murray (Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker) - this should be required reading. How do you solve hard problems? First, you identify the problem.
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35 month ago
jkottke : Malcolm Gladwell on different types of generalizations and when it's helpful to generalize (and not) - Malcolm Gladwell on different types of generalizations and when it's helpful to generalize (and not). I don't know about all that, but I *hate* "pit bull-type" dogs and I still think they should be banned.
Rod Begbie : Malcolm Gladwell: What pit bulls can teach us about profiling. - Excellent, fascinating Malcolm Gladwell article about the uselessness of "profiling" as a tool to attack crime. [via] #
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35 month ago
Cameron Moll : In Praise of Slow Design - In Design Observer's "In Praise of Slow Design", Michael Bierut follows the aesthetic evolution (or the lack thereof) of The New Yorker and relates it to something he calls the Slow Design Movement. A fantastic read.
jkottke : Michael Bierut on the "slow design" of the New Yorker - Michael Bierut on the "slow design" of the New Yorker. "In contrast, one senses that each of the changes in The New Yorker was arrived at almost grudgingly. Designers are used to lecturing timid clients that change requires bravery. But after a certain po
plasticbag : Design Observer writes about the glacially beautiful pace of design innovation at the New Yorker - A lovely article, which really explores the careful custodianship and development of a design pattern. I understand the authors frustration with the speed of design shifts now, but I think it's just what happens in response to a new medium...
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37 month ago
gleuschk : We've got so much blog we don't know where to put it all - megnut.com - five years. wow. and congrats to jason and meg.
plasticbag : Five years after Meg and Jason were featured in the New Yorker's weblogging article, Meg has an announcement to make. - "So for everyone who's been reading for five years, I just wanted you to know: a few months ago Jason and I got engaged. We're going to be married early next year."
Andy Baio : Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke get engaged - five years after You've Got Blog; a warm and wonderful congrats, you two [via]
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38 month ago
gleuschk : The New Yorker: Chicago Christmas, 1984 - George Saunders to read later
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38 month ago
gleuschk : CommComm, by George Saunders - unexpected. Going to see him read this evening
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38 month ago
gleuschk : Truman Capote's original New Yorker piece that turned into "In Cold Blood" - looooooong
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39 month ago
gleuschk : I had my own blog for a while, but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant barking - on the internet, every dog has a blog
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40 month ago
gleuschk : THE MISFIT - fantastic long article from the New Yorker about David Milch (yay livejournal for posting it!)
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50 month ago
jkottke : Gladwell on the difference between modern society's perception of trauma recovery and the reality - "The vast majority of people get over traumatic events, and get over them remarkably well. Only a small subset—five to fifteen per cent—struggle in a way that says they need help." (Comment on this)
Steve Cook : Malcolm Gladwell on emotional resilience - "We forget that other experiences will compete for our attention and emotions. We forget that our psychological immune system will kick in and take away the sting of adversity." I hope he's right.
plasticbag : Malcolm Gladwell on "Getting Over It" - This is the difference between a novel written in the middle of the last century and a novel written at the end of the century. Somehow in the intervening decades our understanding of what it means to experience a traumatic event has changed.
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