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A man and his cigar on whatever comes our way
A collection of links on various topics.
A man and his cigar on whatever comes our way
Air ︎ Travel Design Guide The Air Travel Design Guide is a guidebook for airport stakeholders, designers, and air travel enthusiasts, which…
With backing from Atari’s cofounder, an engineer-navigator brought high-tech driving directions to cars–during the Reagan Administration.
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Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds.
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Jane Kenyon and I were married for twenty-three years. For two decades we inhabited the double solitude of my family farmhouse in New Hampshire, writing poems, loving the countryside. She…
May is the unofficial start of the pottering season. For the uninitiated, pottering involves wandering aimlessly around the house or garden in a pleasingly disassociated meditative state, straightening pictures, wiping plant leaves, or de-bobbling jumpers.
The author imitates a publication. Featuring the usual suspects: interesting internet links, enjoyable media, some art. New this time: a poetry section!
A neat little ASCII town to explore
A 3D Model of the now deceased Beauly Elm. The tree was “… rumored to be older than Britain itself.” Via Atlas Obscura.
Beauly Priory is one of three priories founded in Scotland in about 1230 for monks of the Valliscaulian order. The area around Beauly, meaning ‘beautiful place’, includes several mature trees, including this ancient elm in the graveyard. It is thought to be around 800 years old, making it one of the oldest Wych Elms in Europe and a piece of heritage in its own right. Sadly, the tree has been suffering from Dutch elm disease in recent years and very little of its fabric is living material. To learn about visiting Beauly Priory, go to our website. Rae Project - Beauly Elm - 3D model by Historic Environment Scotland (@HistoricEnvironmentScotland)
Surrounded by dreck, the digital citizen is discovering that the best way to find what she used to get from social platforms is to type a URL into a browser bar and visit an individual site.
The Revenge of the Home Page (newyorker.com)
More of this is being good at sales than anyone wants to admit.
Erika Hall on the job of a designer (linkedin.com)
Bradley Ziffer’s personal site (bradleyziffer.com)
A view source web (viewsource.info)
Piping at a subway station in Tokyo (migurski.tumblr.com)
Enumerating all the ways the internet currently sucks. Example:
You buy a microwave and receive ads for microwaves. You buy a mattress and receive ads for mattresses.
No one wants this.
The article does end on a positive note:
You read the Wikipedia entry and there is a lot of useful information supplied by a community. One of the sources cited is a non-fiction book. You go to your local library’s website and although they don’t have the exact book, they do have others by the same author. You place a hold on two of them, then go get your shoes on.
/via Chris Glass