Archive for July, 2008
Ben Stein on the Economics of Love
AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just celebrated his 96th birthday) used to tell us, economics is the study of the allocation of scarce goods and services. What could be scarcer or more precious than love? It is rare, hard to come by and often fragile.
Ben Stein, Lessons in [...]
Everyone Will Be Lonely Eight Months From Now
Slate’s Everyone Will Be Lonely Eight Months From Now: The weird science of stock photography, notes the somewhat disturbing phenomenon of stock photography shops potentially trendsetting the nation’s mood.
A while back, a friend of mine—a guy who does a lot of directing work—was asked to shoot some rather odd film footage. It was all brief [...]
McCain Thinks He Might Learn to Use the Internets
Wired caught this little gem in the New York Times’ interview with John McCain, McCain’s Conservative Model? Roosevelt (Theodore, That Is) -
He said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides like Mark Salter, a senior adviser, and Brooke Buchanan, his press secretary, to get [...]
Font-geek Humor
via ffffound and todayandtomorrow
Handwritten Typographers
Cameron Adams hit upon a pretty interesting notion with this question -
If we strip away the monitors, and the printing presses, and the typefaces … how would William Caslon have written on a post-it note?
Not satisfied with the thought alone, he took it one step further and mailed away to these imminent typographers [...]
Vanity Plate Blo9s, Wish I Had Thought of That
Spotted in grocery parking lot in Memorial. Cool enough that I’m even willing to overlook for a moment that they’re Aggies. Whoop!
Where Photography Meets Illustration
from Design You Trust.
Christianity’s rapid rise in China
Christianity — repressed, marginalized and, in many cases, illegal in China for more than half a century — is sweeping the country, overflowing churches and posing a sensitive challenge to the officially atheist Communist Party.
Chicago Tribune: Jesus in China: Christianity’s rapid rise
Happiness is Warm Feet
Part of a Austin artist William Hundley’s series, “with cheeseburgers“…. ah, sweet, sweet art. Take a look at Little Naked Person Storage for another delightfully literal set.
Imperial March
All the better without explanation. via Karl Gunnarsson.