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Have you tried to buy graph paper recently? Those 16-year-old clerks at Staples have no clue what you're talking about. If you really want to see their eyes glaze over, tell'em when you went to school you had to carry your own hand-powered computer called a slide rule.
This utility allows you to print your own graph paper, ledger paper, and other specialty papers. Brilliant!
I'm not a member of the games generation—well, I kind of miss Zork! and Adventure, but other than Myst, most of them require hand/eye coordination that I simply lack—which is not to say that I'm immune to the levels of complexity and artistry that many games exhibit, simply that I don't get 'em, most of the time.
I found this article fascinating—both for what it says and how it analyzes the elements of Brain Training's success. Maybe high-end audio could borrow a page from BT's book.
Published in The Atlantic in 2000. What a great piece of writing. Long, but I'd have hung in even longer for anything this masterful.
And what a great lead.
Because you get websites like Paul's Boutique Samples and References List, which, of course, attempts to codify every sample, quote, and homage from the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique. Probably more than you ever wanted to know, but (IMO) that's what makes it so cool: It was done out of love, pure and simple.
Via Accordion Guy.
I guess I lied when I said "More tomorrow." That should teach me something about making promises during "Recommended Components" time. I'm sorry.
Well, eighteen pages and 8000 words later, I'm all done blurbing. I've sent the file off to copy editor Richard Lehnert, and now it's his turn to have a little fun. He replied with a scream: "AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Unusual for Richard. But I can't blame him.
So, let me see; This feels like old news already, but, here it is: I went home that other night — whatever night it was, I can't remember —…
Chet Raymo argues that George Herriman's love struck cat and brick-tossing mouse "turned the deterministic world of Newtonian physics upside down."
In FilmMaker, Scott Macauley has written a spirited preview/interview of Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, which he says is the first faithful film based on a Philip K. Dick novel. I hope so, because the early trailer I saw had an overly-rotoscoped look that I didn't simply hate, I detested. Macauley makes me want to see the movie anyway.