July 2010
15 posts
“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Perhaps I look to books to protect me from life’s ultimate highs and lows; maybe...”
– Andi Diehn
"We Are What We Choose" — Jeff Bezos' Commencement... →
“What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.”
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn
1 tag
“Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get...”
– Jason Mraz
June 2010
6 posts
Are you an Asker or a Guesser? →
May 2010
9 posts
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
– William Wordsworth
“You define yourself by the people you love and that’s enough.”
– Jeff Tweedy
“It is all worth it. Every day, even a sad day blurred by headaches and filled...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman
Strange Signs from Abroad →
Hilariously (mis)translated signage from around the world!
Letters to Fictional Characters →
Harper Perennial invites you to participate in its Letters With Character campaign, and to write a letter to a fictional character. The letters can be funny, sad, demanding, fanciful, declarative, or trivial. They can be about a novel, a short story, or a children’s book, works both literary or popular. There is only one requirement: They must be written by a real person and must also address an...
April 2010
4 posts
March 2010
15 posts
1 tag
Books in the age of the iPad →
A well-written and nicely laid out article by Craid Mod.
“What are often considered the weaknesses of the old-fashioned book are in some...”
– William Powers
1 tag
1 tag
Obama requests Tufte transparency →
Obama appoints Edward Tufte as part of a panel to track stimulus transparency. Tufte on the appointment:
I will be serving on the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel. This Panel advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds … I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in...
February 2010
5 posts
“For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons — which made us...”
– Brian Williams, A thank-you note to Canada (via)