We’re off to Louisiana for the weekend. I won’t have a chance to get to New Orleans while we’re there, so instead of beads, have some links!
Boston brings back Derek Lowe!
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National Design Awards article! Yay! With a slideshow!
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This is not going to win anyone’s design award.
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“Where have all the anti-globalization activists gone?” I think they got jobs and settled down, and that the next wave of mindless protesters latched onto the global warming and anti-war movements in the never-ending quest of college men to score with radical girls.
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Peter Hitchens advises us to get over our paranoia as he describes the many aspects of Iranian life. . .
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. . . while Michael Gerson writes about religious liberty in Turkey.
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How Helvetica conquered the world. Plus, in what fonts do authors compose?
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Core animation, evidently, will rock the shit.
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Mad Mix bought a new iPod!
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China expunged the Tiananmen Square massacre so completely that one of its censors had no idea what it was. There’s something science-fiction-y about that.