June 2017

Animated Subway Maps Compared to Their Actual Geography

These are a wonderfully concise look at design thinking.

How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science

Murray Energy — despite its enormous clout with Mr. Trump and his top environmental official — boasts a payroll with only 6,000 employees. The coal industry nationwide is responsible for about 160,000 jobs, with just 65,000 directly in mining, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.

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Flexbox still trips me up every single time I try to use it.

I can’t believe the iPhone is 10 years old today. It still feels new and miraculous to me, even as the era that preceded it feels distant.

who needs to ever sleep again anyway

SINCE WHEN DO COCKROACHES FLY

A strange homage/parody of occult and hippie films from the ’60s and ’70s, overloaded with wishy-washy neopaganism and boneheaded musings on heterosexuality and patriarchy. My best guess is that it wants to be some kind of feminist Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, but apart from offering an excuse for the wardrobe department to go for broke, I can’t really figure out why this film exists.

Watched the video, assumed it was a joke, looked very carefully, found no indication it’s a joke. 😐 indiegogo.com/projects/smart…

To whom it may concern, this is my official mea culpa for not taking high school math more seriously. #programming

I just don’t get it.

An interesting profile for the uninitiated, but in its cursory understanding of chess, it makes little effort to understand Magnus’s genius, which remains enigmatic as ever. While Magnus the man has had an outsize role in inspiring a new generation of young chess players, Magnus the film fails to depict the game as anything but arcane.

Pizza cake topped with coconut, figs, dried pineapple, and strawberry fruit leather. Made by the incomparable @chambermonster for @mattsutter’s 40th.

“Walmart wants to do better. It has to. Even in the age of Trump, inclusivity sells.” mtv.com/news/3019514/i…

Trying to suss out the patterns of nights like this, when I’m 100% out of step with everyone around me. An unwelcome return to adolescence.

Mobile devices have improved our lives in many ways and I’d give them all up in an instant if it would forever put an end to vertical video.

Uber gonna Uber, I guess. twitter.com/washingtonpost…

Best WSJ hedcut ever? wsj.com/articles/hell-…

I’ve looked forward to this since it was a twinkle in @clagnut’s eye a decade ago. Haven’t read it yet, but I can confidently recommend it. twitter.com/webtypography/…

One of my favorite things I’ve read about Prince. daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/06/susan-…

Me: “Just calling to say I’m sorry you missed it.”
Her, both disappointed and giddy: “Did you fall down?!”

“I think the first real disruption will happen with the people tinkering with CSS and variable fonts…” subtraction.com/2017/06/08/dan…

Though it does little to distinguish itself from the untold thousands of horror cheapies that litter the streaming landscape, The Evil Within has a certain undeniable flair, even if you don’t know it was the singular obsession of a millionaire meth addict who spent 15 years and vast sums of his own money to make it. “Outsider art” doesn’t quite do it justice. Unlike the bewildering writing of Neil Breen or Tommy Wiseau, writer/director Andrew… See more →

This has long perplexed me: Like any certifiable bully, Trump (mostly) knows how to make a fist, so why is his thumbs-up so fucking weird?

“[W]e’ve given this feudal Internet the power to change our offline world in unanticipated and scary ways.”
idlewords.com/talks/notes_fr…

Solid tips for beginners and veterans alike. twitter.com/nytimes/status…

So excited to return to MV. No pressure to win, score, achieve, collect, etc. Just a beautiful space with thoughtful mechanics to explore. twitter.com/ustwo/status/8…

Plot-wise, Hounds of Love is in many ways a fairly by-the-numbers kidnapping / serial killer movie. But after a first act that hews uncomfortably close to crass, skin-crawling exploitation, its character development and attention to style are able to set it apart from less compelling grindhouse fare. Its success in those departments is noteworthy: Emma Booth’s fragile performance has rightly received a lot of praise, and the cinematography and score work well together to create… See more →

These animated subway maps compared to their actual geography are a wonderfully concise look at design thinking. thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/animat…