June 10th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Wal-Mart, Meet Prada | “Dear God, what if Wal-Mart sold Manolo Blahniks in the shoe section? Or stocked copies of Dwell and the New York Review of Books in the magazine aisle?”
Logo Trends 2005 | “The word trend seems to raise the little hairs on the back of some designers
May 21st, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Twelve Ways to Think Differently | “Our minds are like our bodies–fail to exercise them and they atrophy and break down. We live in an age of specialization, where we are encouraged to narrow our interests and our activities, to focus and limit ourselves to doing things at which we are very competent. So parts […]
May 10th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Brain Candy | Malcolm Gladwell reviews Steven Johnson new book, Everything Bad is Good for You and addresses the question, is pop culture dumbing us down or smartening us up?
An Interview with Edward R. Tufte | Widely read in many areas, EdwardR.Tufte is arguably the preeminent authority on data and statistical visualization.
Gaining Confidence: […]
May 6th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
The Wired 40 | They’re masters of technology and innovation. They’re global thinkers driven by strategic vision. They’re nimbler than Martha Stewart’s PR team. They’re The Wired 40.
Think Belligerent | Steve Jobs will do anything to protect his precious secrets. So he’s suing Apple’s biggest fans. Inside the Mac daddy’s battle with the rumor blogs.
Getting […]
April 28th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Firefox Tops the 50 Million Download Mark | “Mozilla said Friday that its Firefox browser had passed the 50 million download mark since its November release. They attribute the popularity of Firefox to their Spread Firefox campaign, which is aimed at wrestling control from a monopoly that has let web technology stagnate.”
More Details Emerge on […]
April 14th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Audio of Malcolm Gladwell’s SXSW Interactive 2005 Keynote | “Are our judgments influenced by the amount of information used in arriving at them? Does more information lead to better judgments? Malcolm Gladwell takes these knotty questions head on and weaves a very coherent story around the answers he suggests.”
AIGA’s Design Annual for 2005 | There […]
March 30th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
The Feynman-Tufte Principle | “I had long wanted to meet Edward R. Tufte–the man the New York Times called “the da Vinci of data” because of his concisely written and artfully illustrated books on the visual display of data.”
Writing, Briefly | “A lot of people ask for advice about writing. How important is it to […]
March 18th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Taking Photos in Public Places | “Steve, a freelance photographer, was stopped while taking pictures in a
San Francisco MUNI station, told that he was breaking a post-9/11 law
against photographing San Francisco’s public transit. He challenged the
MUNI cops to name the law he was breaking, aware that such a law was
unconstitutional, and they — unsurprisingly — […]
March 16th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Spike Jonze Directs a Commercial for Adidas | Jonze, most famous as the the director of Adaptation and Being John Malkovich, has also done a lot of commercials and music videos.
Yahoo! 360 is Near Beta | Lets you create a blog, share photos, email, and social networking.
Stunning, Panoramic View of the Recent Protests in Beirut, […]
March 9th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
How Do You Move An Obelisk? | The
ever-ingenious Italians are busting it into three pieces. Ethiopia has
had to build a special runway for the only aircraft big enough to carry
the pieces, the U.S.-built C5 Galaxy.
Google Desktop Search Leaves Beta | Clever or just more clutter?
Bloggers, Meet the Pod People | How people start PodCasting.
At a […]
March 4th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Rubber Match: Which Condom is the Best? | When the list of the world’s great inventions is tallied, the wheel,
the combustion engine, and the computer chip invariably make the list.
The condom, amazingly, never does. This seems an injustice.
Q&A With Michael Wolff | The Vanity Fair media columnist argues that the Wall Street Journal stopped mattering […]
February 4th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
ESPN Interview: Malcom Gladwell | Malcolm Gladwell is a
staff writer for the New Yorker, a sports fan, and, most famously, the
author of the red-hot 2000 bestseller The Tipping Point, Blink,
his latest book, is subtitled, "The Power of Thinking Without
Thinking," which is at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list.
Welcome to Make! The First […]
January 25th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Hockey fan’s obit slams NHL labour dispute
Archie Bennitz (84), an avid hockey fan calls Gary Bettman a “skunk” in his death notice
Dude has a rate card for his forehead
Graphic designer sells advertising space on his forehead for $37,375
San Francisco may charge for grocery bags
Ok, shouldn’t they tax the store? I mean come on, don’t you […]
January 21st, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Hubble Servicing Mission Cut from Budget
The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sources.
Easy Listening
As part of the CMJ Music Marathon […]
January 12th, 2005 | by Tommy | published in Reading Materials
Mac Mini
Wow, I want one and I don’t need one
Music Plasma
It worked great for me at Bonnaroo this year
The Friendster of Photo Sites
Ok, article is a few weeks old, but worth the read
Malcolm Gladwell and James Surowiecki talk about their new books
Enough said isn’t it
