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It’s Not Awesome—Bruce Lawson

Can’t be complementing people now, morale will suffer!

Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News

Professional reporting formulaic? Really?

HTML5, it is a-changin’ (vocals and ukulele by Daniel Davis)

Bravo! :-D

For more info Bob Dylan Meets HTML5 on Molly.com

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.

Daniel Burnham, Chicago Architect. (1846-1912)

via The Tablet, by John Gruber

Heaven Can Wait, by Charlotte Gainsbourg

lyq:

This is probably the strangest thing I’ve seen all year.

Super Baozi vs Sushi Man—by Sun Haipeng

Super Baozi, being tired of being in Catering,is longing for developeing in Recreation. With intense enthusiasm and strong perseverance, he has learned to sing songs and to play nunchakus.Here are two short films of Super Baozi,please enjoy them.

Sweet as.

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Clark’s Law

Via Adactio’s “Burge Pitch Torrent”.

The craftman’s spirit, I think, imbues people with a sense of beauty, as in elaboration, delicacy, care, simplicity (words I often use).

Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics

Kenya Hara, creative director of MUJI and professor at the Musashino Art University, talking about 職人気質 (taking pride in your work) felt by Japanese people. Translated by iA for a New York article “Beauty and the Bento Box”.

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon by Richard Gale

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