March 10, 2010
What’s in the David Foster Wallace Archive?→

—The New Yorker



What do you think David Bazan is showing Damien Jurado in this photo by Sarah Jurado?

What do you think David Bazan is showing Damien Jurado in this photo by Sarah Jurado?


Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & the Cairo Gang – The Wonder Show of the World Out 3/23 on Drag City (via MBV) I hope this album is a return to form.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & the Cairo Gang – The Wonder Show of the World
Out 3/23 on Drag City (via MBV)

I hope this album is a return to form.


“ The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

Parkinson’s Law of Triviality

This is the basis of the Bike Shed Effect:

You can go in to the board of directors and get approval for building a multi-million or even billion dollar atomic power plant, but if you want to build a bike shed you will be tangled up in endless discussions.


Walnut-Bourbon Banana Bread

Walnut-Bourbon Banana Bread


March 9, 2010
“ Writing is a way of organizing thought. Publishing is a way of receiving feedback.
Frank Chiremo
A guide to Conan’s many Twitter identities→


Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog

Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog


“ JavaScript, Flash, HTML5, tables, Shockwave, Unity—no one cares when people using it can do what they’re supposed to.
Flash and Standards: The Cold War of the Web by Dan Mall
From A to Z: Words David Foster Wallace Circled in Dictionary + a bunch of other great scans from the David Foster Wallace archive at The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.

From A to Z: Words David Foster Wallace Circled in Dictionary + a bunch of other great scans from the David Foster Wallace archive at The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin.