August 2010
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“Writing and drawing are thinking. We’re told in school that they are skills but...”
– Chris Ware, quoted in The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking, a book of critical essays on his work. via johnmartz
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Are you ready for a world without antibiotics? →
The era of antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight.
Bleak. via Lotuspad
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Thanks dude. →
Kevin Holesh makes the Letterpress theme I use on Tumblr. I just want to take a moment and say thanks. Thanks for being awesome!
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“Eventually I discovered for myself the utterly simple prescription for...”
– Ralph Steiner via hrrrthrrr
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Why Sharpie Liquids Pencils Don’t Live Up to the... →
The Pentel p207 is still my favorite pencil. Cheap, refillable, and a good eraser (just don’t push too hard).
patrickrhone:
I was really excited for these but now could care less.
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Personality Set for Life By 1st Grade →
Reminds me of Michel Gondry’s I’ve Been Twelve Forever.
austinkleon:
File under “Science telling us what folk wisdom has told us forever”:
“We remain recognizably the same person,” said study author Christopher Nave, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Riverside. “This speaks to the importance of understanding personality because it does follow us wherever we go across...
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Anaithnid Games - On Being "Amateur" →
You can’t really succeed at what you love, do what you care about, without embracing it.
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“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to...”
– Borges: The Task of Art | Open Culture (via clampants and trainque)
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Oh damn I was going to say something cool here but...
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Breakfast →
I was about to throw a link up to this, but Best of Wikipedia beat me to it. The typical breakfasts of each country are fascinating. Here’s the entry for Thailand:
In the case of Thailand, a variety of different foods are served for breakfast since the country has opened to the eating cultures from many countries. Thai-Chinese people typically have congee/jook, boil-rice with fishes, pickles,...