Jon Stewart
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Links: December 2016
What’s Your Ideal Community? The Answer Is Political
It’s conceivable that people who live in cities come to value more active government. Or they’re more receptive to investing in welfare because they pass the homeless every day. Or they appreciate immigration because their cab rides and lunch depend on immigrants. This argument is partly about the people we’re exposed to in cities (the poor, foreigners), and partly about the logistics of living there.
The suburbs… See more →
Links: January 2016
The Website Obesity Crisis
Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
The 2015 ProPublica Year in Visual Storytelling
A nice roundup of ProPublica’s more visually and interactively rich stories from the past year.
Animated homage to The Wire
When I hear Blind Boys of Alabama’s cover of “Way Down in… See more →
Consumption: February 2006
On the Web
- Microsoft Designs the iPod Package: This amusing little video demonstrates perfectly why designers typically prefer Apple.
- Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey: An insider’s anthropological documentary examination of the much-maligned musical subculture.
- Dev2.0: Band-sanctioned, kid-friendly versions of Devo classics on Walt Disney Records. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
- Lotte Klaver: A beautiful watercolor sketch blog from Amsterdam.
- Netdisaster: Wreak harmless havoc on the web site of your choice. A neat idea,… See more →