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From the brain trust at GQ, 21 Books You Don’t Have to Read (and 21 you should read instead)…with a little something to irritate everyone.
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The New New York Times Twitter account tweets words as they appear in the New York Times for the first time. Great fun to follow despite the occasional “firsts” that are misspellings || Related: NYT Minus Context, posting often surreal verbatim bits from the New York Times || See also, more Twitter fun: Fake Library Stats
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With pictures this powerful, I can’t imagine what experiencing the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice would feel like.
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Even if just browsing them as nerdy eye-candy, Xenographics (“weird but (sometimes) useful charts”) are great.
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Choose Your Own Adventure books are being adapted into interactive Choose Your Own Adventure Movies.
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Two examples of large scale book art made their way to me this week…and they are astounding! → Alicia Martin’s Biografias Book Sculptures and Matej Kren’s “book cell”, which could come straight out of my head.
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Inspired by this NYT article, I gave the peanut butter and pickle sandwich another try. And…they were right. Except in dissing the bread and butter pickle’s delectable suitability.
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Can Handwriting be Copyrighted? Well, no. But using the names of celebrities could have been a problem.
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Some great art this week: Seung Hoon Park’s woven photos & Mimi Choi’s Makeup Artistry & Kate Kato’s paper sculpture
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Today in 1852, the first edition of Peter Mark Roget‘s Thesaurus is published. Originally “only” 15,000 words, the current 7th International Edition contains more than 325,000 words and phrases. Highly recommended: The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget’s Thesaurus, an ultra-readable biography of Roget, a driven, eccentric polymath, inventor of the slide-rule and, umm, frolicsome bachelor who was compelled to categorize just about everything starting at the age of eight. In fact, he intended his thesaurus to be not just a categorization of words, but of the world’s ideas.