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Great piece from @ftrain on the parallels between the blockchain and dot-com bubbles, and the good and bad to come. bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I shall now begin updating you in real time which songs I skip as I shuffle this Billboard Top 100 of 1991 playlist. open.spotify.com/user/israel.ke…

🚨 For your weekend: Prince’s spectacular 1987 concert film, Sign o’ the Times, is now streaming on Amazon Prime. amazon.com/gp/video/detai…

Opportunity alert: We’re now taking applications for our new design fellowship at @propublica! propublica.org/atpropublica/p…

“[T]his trend of corporations-as-activists is […] the result of a government that’s unable (or unwilling) to serve its citizens.” twitter.com/beep/status/96…

“One of my greatest fears for the web is that building it becomes the domain of a professional priesthood.” adactio.com/journal/13498

Hello dear reader!

February is gone, but its links remain.

My site was pretty quiet in February, up until yesterday when I published the final post in a series about the process behind my redesign. This one is about color, and the recent revelations I’ve had about how to work with it.

This month’s links have the usual range of topics, with the highlight for me being a treasure trove of interviews and demos on… See more →

I’ve never had a complete stranger for a roommate, and I think I’ll stay the course. nymag.com/daily/intellig…

I love how @brendandawes documents his creative process in small books compiling Git commits, screenshots, and more. brendandawes.com/blog/gitbook

“How can the quintessentially rationalist faith of liberalism flourish in an age that […] demeans rationality?” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Here’s @michaelianblack succinctly and eloquently making an extremely important point about our broken masculinity. nytimes.com/2018/02/21/opi…

Loving @mSutters’s illustrations in @kevinmhoffman’s new book, Meeting Design, which promises to be excellent. rosenfeldmedia.com/books/meeting-…

Ugh. Why undermine the case against guns with misleading stats when the actual stats are already beyond horrific? twitter.com/washingtonpost…

I won’t pretend I’m immune to palace intrigue, but paying any attention to Omarosa—let alone putting stock in her commentary—demeans us all. twitter.com/washingtonpost…

I guess @d_carson_design is making music now? open.spotify.com/artist/1RtQ5z4…

I could watch @donttrythis’s giddy tour of @aardman all day. And there are enough videos to make that possible! youtu.be/stSYs7a2UHE

In the U.S., “abstinence-based sex education remains the norm […] online porn fills the vacuum, making porn the de facto sex educator.” twitter.com/nytimes/status…

In a weekly average of 23,077 violent crimes, “the White House only found two crimes linked to immigrants in the country illegally.” twitter.com/washingtonpost…

“It’s like designing a house so it’s easy to build, instead of setting up cranes typically used for skyscrapers.” frankchimero.com/writing/everyt…

“They concluded that Steele’s sources […] had no discernible reason to deceive the small intelligence firm.” washingtonpost.com/politics/hero-…

Everyone please continue making colorful geometric confections and I will continue admiring them. thisiscolossal.com/2018/02/lauren…

“Above all, my old iPad has revealed itself as a cursed object of a modern sort. It wears out without wearing.” nytimes.com/2018/02/06/mag…

This @business game is a fun way to learn about how and why retail is dying. Try to keep a mall in the black! bloomberg.com/features/ameri…

Trump, Inc is a new podcast from @propublica and @WNYC digging into the president’s opaque conflicts of interest. wnycstudios.org/shows/trumpinc

Has anything good ever happened because of the Greek system rather than in spite of the Greek system? twitter.com/washingtonpost…

“You could spend a million dollars on a piano part and it won’t make you a million dollars back.” vulture.com/2018/02/quincy…

“[T]he wound collector never has to go far to feel victimized.” Unpacking the alt-right’s growing body count. splcenter.org/20180205/alt-r…

I beat this drum a lot, but if you love movies, you need to be on @letterboxd. And their newly-updated iOS app is 🥇 itunes.apple.com/app/id10542710…

Hello, dear reader!

January is gone, but its links remain.

In my little corner of the internet, I posted a roundup of my favorite stuff from 2017 (including a look ahead at plans for 2018). As a subscriber, you may be especially interested in the stats I compiled about the 299 links I shared last year.

I released my first open source software project, Column Setter, a Sass tool for building custom responsive grids that… See more →

You’ll want to make some time for a long shower after reading @FranklinFoer’s in-depth profile of Paul Manafort. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

My favorite film of 2017 was Negative Space, nominated for Best Animated Short. Trailer and behind-the-scenes: thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/negati…

If you’re a web designer and/or dev, @mozilla’s Layout Land channel on YouTube with @jensimmons is a wonderful gift. youtu.be/7msERxu7ivg

How great is this 1980s “decade of cards” from Second Marriage Studio? @alyankovic and @FlavorFlav are the jokers! etsy.com/listing/585603…

One of my favorite things about Lady Bird is its quick pace. Character development via tons of tiny moments. avclub.com/lady-bird-will…

I’m not a podcast guy, but I make an exception for @JennLukas, @theledu, and @sara_ann_marie, the smartypantses behind the new @noyougoshow.

An excellent visual explanation of how scan lines and color work on analog and digital video screens. youtube.com/watch?v=3BJU2d…

Apparently @NewsHour redesigned recently, and it looks pretty great. pbs.org/newshour/

🚨 Today Def Leppard’s full catalog is streaming for the first time! Some of my faves from the first four albums: open.spotify.com/user/121632828…

One year into the Trump Administration, we’ve updated our Cabinet Cards to see who’s still standing. propublica.org/article/the-ch…

Catching up on conference talks. I’ve long been a @jensimmons fan but somehow never saw her speak. She’s so great! vimeo.com/147950924

Looks like I’ll be spending a good chunk of the day digging through all the goodies on the fantastic new @Slate redesign. twitter.com/jasonsantamari…

Web devs may be interested in this post’s tables styled as bar charts. I made a @jekyllrb include to generate them from CSVs. More to come! twitter.com/robweychert/st…

“We are miseducating the young to believe military heroism is the noblest form of heroism.” thenib.com/the-good-war

I’d read this story without hesitation if I were sure it would answer all my questions about the image at the top. newyorker.com/magazine/2008/…

Everyone please continue making colorful geometric confections and I will continue admiring them. thisiscolossal.com/2018/01/comple…

This short report on a newly-discovered prime number is an interesting window into the world of pure mathematics. fivethirtyeight.com/features/we-ha…

Shows I Wish I Hadn’t Missed, Late Sunday Edition youtu.be/KbrFOt39qkM

“Every step of post-production on Star Wars reflected a revolutionary commitment to the craft.” youtu.be/GFMyMxMYDNk

Happy New Year, dear reader!

December is gone, but its links remain.

I did some more film writing this month, most notably on The Disaster Artist and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and I also published a collection of all the shorter film reviews I wrote in 2017.

This month’s links are a good mix of the topical (net neutrality, sexism, the new tax bill), year-end reflections, inspiring art and design, and more. I hope… See more →

This is great. Creative prompts à la Oblique Strategies. twitter.com/mgoldst/status…