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OBlog: Five Years of 100 Days: Observers Room: Design Observer

An Interview with RISD President John Maeda in its coverage. We include: Asians, African Americans, Latinos, Indians, People with Disabilities, Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgendered People (GLBT), Women and more in our coverage. Color Magazine…

The Golden Bough: Killing the god ... - Google Books

La Petite Claudine: Commonplace Book This book consists of ideas, images, & quotations hastily jotted down for possible future use in weird fiction. Very few are actually developed plots—for the most part they are merely suggestion…

A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle, concerning Charles Babbage, Heath Robinson, MENACE and MAGE Today I’m going to talk about the idea of the miraculous, or at least the appearance of the miraculous. Humans have a strange relationship to the miraculous, but the prime emotion it seems to st…

“Dead Drops” preview at Aram Bartholl – Blog

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral trad…

10K Apart | Inspire the web with just 10K. Something has broken, and for that we apologize.…

The Ultimate Simple Living Guide: 95 Rockin’ Posts Everyone’s path toward a simple and minimalist lifestyle will look differently; however there are a lot of amazing resources to help you along the way. Below are some of the best and most inspir…

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

Ryan Freitas - 35 Lessons in 35 Years My father always told me that the day we stop learning is the day we die. I wrote this as a sort of preparation for my 35th birthday last week. Some of these are poignant, others are simply trite; I a…

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How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tell - WSJ.com WSJ.com is available in the following editions and languages: …

Story Generator - TV Tropes We say "story generator", but it should probably be "story idea generator". These elements from the trope indexes should spark an idea or two. …

The Random Pulp Science Fiction Title Generator from Cornelius Zappencackler's DERANGE-O-LAB

The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps on Vimeo

You and Your Research At a seminar in the Bell Communications Research Colloquia Series, Dr. Richard W. Hamming, a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a retired Bell Labs scientist, g…

'sfearthquakes' on Twitter - O'Reilly Radar

Trivium: 20sep2008 Welcome to Trivium, my new blog that aims to merge the best parts of a tumblelog and a “classic” blog full of editorial, essayish content (which is not that classic at all, but this will b…

What Startups Are Really Like