May 2012
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May 8th
Imagine London
Londonist a site I love to virtual sight-see by (oh hell, I don’t want to play tourist I want to live there!)  has the London that never was Really would have liked to see this on one of my visits.
May 5th
March 2012
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Happy Birthday Douglas Adams!
So wish you were still with us, but your books live on and have lives of their own in our hearts and in the creativity of others. Brilliant, evocative book cover designs by Andrew Lee
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Spike Jones uncovers the night life at a famous bookstore! No wonder the books are all just standing around on the shelves during the day they are exhausted. via Open Culture
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January 2012
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The year 2000 according to Ladies' Home Journal...
Amazing what they got mostly right and what they were so off on. I really wish we had more pneumatic tubes… via twitter Letters of Note
Jan 4th
This is what a year looks like
One place all the moments of 2011 — captured. Toronto Jan 1 - Dec 31 2011. Eerie and beautiful by Michael Chrisman via The Star
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December 2011
10 posts
Words to live by in 2012
via type everything
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Secret Agent Calvin I presume...
Just awesome! I would love to see more of this even though an evil Pooh is hard to get my head around. Now Calvin and Hobbes kicking asses and taking no prisoners — that I can see! More info and picks at io9
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Tonight…the Doctor on his own, The Doctor in the time where history is forgetting him? Hopefully a lovely treat that shows the strengths of the show and Matt Smith and gives a bit more distance from the end of the season’s story arc….
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November 2011
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information is not the same thing as knowledge...
much less wisdom.
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Wish list item
New Pixar book, on their 25 year(!!!) history. The Art of Pixar via BrainPickings
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Just so you know Jeff, you are now creating six...
I want this to become a real game! Which timeline do I have to be in for that to have happened? via SuperMercado
Nov 1st
October 2011
25 posts
a magazine cover of many colors and dimensions
Just wow, to think to do it, to accomplish it - art and engineering! Watch a video of the design process at Laughing Squid.
Oct 28th
A lost treasure trove...
in which to lose significant amounts of time Lost: Wired’s Guide to Pop Culture’s Buried Treasure And the coolest part about this for me is I found it through a Kurt Loder tweet. Someone who was an important pop culture authority for me in years gone by and — thank you twitter — again now!
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you might not be able to tell a book by it's cover...
Very clever, read the whole tale at A Bloomsbury Life
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writ large
Amazing public art work in Downtown Brooklyn by Steve Powers via Vernacular Typography
Oct 19th
Engineering humor...
A bridge in Norway to nowhere? Pretty and not so scary from this angle.
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until the fancy inforgraphic...
this useful chart helps to follow the dice rolls of last nights fantastic in all universes Community PS everyone noticed that it was Inspector Spacetime playing on A & T’s TV at the end right???
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Where I’ve been on my 3 year journey by the Mars Rover Opportunity — best slideshow ever! via i09
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