January 2012
4 posts
“The comment space is a whiteboard where others are able to expand on ideas or...”
– John Carey explains why you shouldn’t Drive Angry over at Fifty Foot Shadows. And he has a point.
The Dangerous Effects of Reading | Certain Extent →
practicalopacity:
If the world overwhelms you with its constant production of useless crap which you filter more and more to things that only interest you can I calmly suggest that you just create things that you like and cut out the rest of the world as a middle-man to your happiness?
This sounds like a good plan.
(via Chris Long)
It is a good plan.
“I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the...”
– William Gibson as quoted by Dwight Garner on his not very enthusiastic review of the writer’s book of non-fiction pieces ‘Distrust That Particular Flavor’.
December 2011
6 posts
New Rules for the Ways We Watch →
David Carr thinks - smartly - about what the new media landscape will look like.
Brussels: The Chocolate Trail →
Slurp.
Comparing Airline Livery →
A dazzling slideshow of airline paint jobs. For design fans, note that Saul Bass designed a couple of these logos.
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog) →
minimalmac:
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
So, today I recorded a future episode of the...
October 2011
4 posts
“Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and...”
– Lao Tzu (translation by Stephen Mitchell. Sourced via mnmal)
Do your work. Step back.
Love this.
Update: This quote actually from Lao Tzu. Stephen Mitchell is doing the translation. Updated attribution to reflect this. (via minimalmac)
Minimal Mac: Three Chairs →
minimalmac:
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
– Henry David Thoreau in Walden
Please forgive the repetition, but this has been on my mind lately. Namely, what are my three chairs?
Words to live by from the indispensable Patrick Rhone.
“I realized that everyone feels secretly fraudulent. It’s the feeling of being an...”
– Miranda July to the New Yorker, via Andrew Sullivan, The Dish @ The Daily Beast.
September 2011
6 posts
Minimal Mac: Delegating Choice →
If he isn’t a genius by now, Patrick Rhone should be.
minimalmac:
I have talked before about final choices and sensible defaults as a way I bring balance to my life by reducing the number of choices I have to make. I have recently identified one other method I increasingly use to simplify in this manner – delegating choices to someone or something else.
For…
Minimal Mac: Isn't the web enough? →
Patrick Rhone at minimalmac is, as usual, spot-on.
“This has its upsides and downsides: music is liberated from its original...”
– Simon Reynolds explains why he’s probably the only music critic I still follow regularly.
“Iran calling for Syria to dialogue rather than use force against its population...”
– Karim Sadjadpour, in this story from the New York Times: Iran’s President, Ahmadinejad, Calls for End to Syrian Crackdown
August 2011
6 posts
Minimal Mac: Disruptive →
Genius. No, really.
minimalmac:
You should know by now that I normally do not get into much “news” around here. Especially when it’s not specifically Mac news. There are a ton of great Mac news sites out there and I leave that job up to them. That said, Chairman Gruber linked to a highly fascinating Wall Street Journal…
If Ludwig Had A Laptop - The Dish →
I think I’m a Beethovian. And you?
“I had thought that the worst collection of people was an English department...”
– Philip Levine talking to Carolyn Kellogg. (via Andrew Sullivan)
Rate This Article: What’s Wrong with the Culture... →
A must-read from Chris Colin on the August issue of Wired.
“Our civilization at times seems like nothing but white noise.”
– Andrew Sullivan. Intriguing.
“In the world of politics, nostalgia is a kind of quitting. It says,”I...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates is talking of gentrification - but he could be talking about a lot of other things.
July 2011
10 posts
The Prescription to Save Ailing Superheroes -... →
Genius.
The Art Of Listening : fiftyfootshadows.net →
John Carey is spot-on here.
“It sounds stupidly obvious, but it’s amazing how much unneccesary stuff we let...”
– Brad Blackman – Mysterious Flame » Simplify your reading (via minimalmac)
“The past should be interesting for its own sake, on its own merits. It should...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates rules.
Observations on film art : Good and good for you →
This is absolutely magnificent.
“If someone makes a monogamous commitment and fucks up, I believe the wronged...”
– Dan Savage via Chris Bodenner at The Dish. Makes sense to me. Am I in the minority?
“Is it worth leading a miserable life to create good art? Do films matter that...”
– There’s a lot more where that came from: Brigitta Wagner’s interview with Joe Swanberg in the latest issue of online film journal Senses of Cinema.
June 2011
5 posts
“There are no standards of fact anymore for a lot of people. We have gone from...”
– James McPherson, as quoted in Jeremy Peters’ disappointingly thin New York Times story on Andrew Breitbart.
The Road to Gay Marriage in New York →
Michael Barbaro’s story in today’s New York Times is a superb piece of narrative journalism.
“One reality of being a TV critic is that you have to be a generalist; you may...”
– James Poniewozik is a genius.
“Gorgeousness” is always going to be a matter of taste and mood, not going...”
– Dr. Science via Andrew Sullivan.
Minimal Mac: Seeing The Future →
Patrick Rhone is so spot-on it’s scary.
May 2011
9 posts
This is really scary. →
“There’s no shortage of interesting records coming out, but there’s something...”
– More thought goodness from Simon Reynolds on Frieze.
“One of the things I’m still puzzling over is how things are changing from a...”
– Simon Reynolds speaks to Dan Fox of Frieze Magazine.
“I don’t think there’s any point in doing something you’re not terrified of.”
– Carey Mulligan speaking to Charles McGrath in The New York Times.
WatchAn awesome exercise in time-lapse, perfectly soundtracked. (via Andrew Sullivan, as usual)
Minimal Mac: Listen to What You Love →
minimalmac:
I’ve been meaning to speak about this for a while. Namely, this: If you have music you don’t enjoy in your iTunes library, why?
Is it that you bought it before you realized it was not your thing and now feel like deleting it would be throwing money away?
Is it because it was a gift and you…
“Every so often you read a poem — or a book, a passage, a play, a transcript...”
– ( C.J. Chivers via Andrew Sullivan )