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| February 27, 2016 |
Four Brothers, last month |
| December 26, 2015 |
Happy New Year!
From The
Commercial Zen of Muji by Silvia Killingsworth, in the New Yorker:
- The colors, patterns, and materials are generic, but everything, from toothbrush holders to storage boxes, comes in pleasing shapes.
- [Their] compact all-white appliances are described by a display sign as having "a square shape tinged with mellow roundness."
- Its advertising conveys the sense that life without logos, loud colors, and sharp edges is peaceful and free of distraction and excess.
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| December 5, 2015 |
In New York a year ago, on Broadway.
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| April 5, 2015 |
- Always enjoy Old Time Radio; have recently discovered
Airchecks, audio archives of several minutes to hours of some
radio station, now a broadcast from the past. First I came
across was
this
whole day from 1939 of WTOP at archive.org, then more recently
an hour from Top 40 KVIL in '67 at soundcloud which is gone now,
probably because it hadn't been 'scoped', where most of the songs'
middles are removed. Seeking the sounds of my youth led to
this
WPGC tribute site which has both triva and airchecks,
but unlike there,
this
DJ's blog posting has links to some unscoped MP3s from
that station 1963-1972.
- airportcod.es
provides access to a fun fact about your favorite
aerodrome via an attractive interface.
- This looks tasty -- The
Leviathan.
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| February 1, 2015 |
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| August 30, 2014 |
- Fascinating -- Campanologomania -- why
is the dumb-bell, change ringing and more
- Tower
Records on Sunset in 1971 (10-minute video)
- Also in Slate, in one of their blogs,
Why
Does ISIS Have So Many Names?
the New York Times,
LA Times; ABC, CBS and NBC all use 'ISIS'. However,
the US government uses 'ISIL', for Islamic State
of Iraq and the Levant.
Initially I attributed the difference to an assumed ignorance
of the Levant
Also contrast Obama's neutral rendering of "ISIL" (almost
rhyming with "pencil") with the sinister, hissing "ISIS."
And FYI that second "S" actually stands for "al-Sham"
(Arabic for the Levant).
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| August 10, 2014 |
- Amazing JT Singh travel promotion videos by Rob Whitworth --
This Is Shanghai,
Barcelona GO! and especially
Enter Pyongyang.
- Ex-postmaster
condemns
the USPS, he doesn't like
the
Harry Potter stamps. Wish my post offices had the
new
Jimi Hendrix, but they hardly received any, sorry, sold out.
- Say, what was that about
Mangoes?
And what type does that pertain to? There's six
kinds but to most, mango = Tommy Atkins but I don't
like those -- to me, they've a chemical taste... however, those
little yellow ataulfos from Mexico or the Philippines,
they're good.
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| July 29, 2014 |
Almost looks like Red State, Blue State, doesn't it?
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| June 24, 2014 |
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| May 25, 2014 |
- From Detroit,
Fordite -- 'gemstone' laminates
formed from layers of enamal paint.
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| February 17, 2014 |
The configuration of the top-center of my
new dual-flush toilet has an
athropomorphic, mournful expression.
- Brian Eno released a secret, to-the-trade only CD
of ambient sounds in 1989, called
Textures,
now available on YouTube. Interesting, but I listen to the older
Evening Star more
often.
- A new day trip, when you go to Venice (and
everybody should go to Venezia at
least once) -- the technicolor town of
Burano.
The name reminds me of the Soviet space shuttle
and the neighboring glass island of Murano.
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