Short Schrift

From the Diaries : 24 December 1910. I have now taken a closer look over my writing desk and have seen that nothing good can be done with it...

Via Daring Fireball.

At around 5:30 in this video is one of my favorite Peanuts or poetry jokes ever:

She & Him (aka Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward), "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?": MTV Music Videos MTV Shows Entertainment News I...

My very good friend Gavin at Wordwright is very wrong when he says that "the Clinton/Obama dichotomy was largely a rhetorical mirage...

Okay. Now, I would never never ever in a million years say anything negative about bicyclists , since I don't get paid by the pageview. ...

Nate Silver, " The Other Advantage of Opting Out ": If you simply know someone's name and either their address or their telep...

Kevin Kelly has a smart post on what he calls "vizuality," which he explains as "visual literacy" -- what he really mea...

I posted on the idea that consumption of books is converging just as music consumption is diverging here . Now Sebastian Mary at if:book wei...

The Guardian reports on a private collection of Franz Kafka's papers. The good news: Previously unseen documents, postcards, sketches ...