Archive for June, 2008

And We’re Back

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Back up and running after a sudden barrage of generous linking from Joshua Schachter, Andy Baio, Jack Dorsey, Valleywag, Boing Boing, Daring Fireball, Download Squad, CNET’s Webware, UTNE Reader, Bub.blicio.us and other good folks.
Servers don’t hold up as well as paper.

Toynbee’s Resurrection

Many an urban internet meme collector can tell you about the 25-year-old Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles—embedded in hundreds of city streets throughout the Western Hemisphere, a cryptic message from an unknown crank: TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUBRICK’s 2001: RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.
Researchers have traced it back to a handful of tantalizingly vague possible [...]

Booksmooch

I mean BookMooch—have you tried it? It’s enough to send a book hoarder past the point of no return. You go and list the books you have that you no longer want and if they’re good ones, you’ll receive email alerts within minutes from people who have those same books on their wishlists and would [...]

Book Art Backgrounders

McLuhan book gun by Robert The
If you ever wanted to know more about the people behind the book art you see around the web and on sites like this one, proceed to Elizabeth Wadell’s piece in the summer issue of The Quarterly Conversation. She profiles Robert The, well-named creator of the book gun above, Cara [...]