On Land

# The Harper's DFW Archive...

In PDF form in memoriam. 'Shipping Out' was the original title of the cruise ship report 'Supposedly Fun Thing...' mentioned below. 'The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems' is an excerpt from Infinite Jest.

# $8.34...

Seems reasonable.

# Five...

years.

# A Fox...

ran through the yard this morning with a newspaper in his mouth. It didn't make him appear any more tame.

# Clock...

Sundials are cool but they don't really work.

# Mercury...

First new image in over 30 years.

# Milk Man...

This is the webcam of the school under construction with the money partly raised from the sale of the DVD of the performance of the kids' ballet based on the record by Deerhoof.

# Faces in Places...

Here, via Coudal. There's an Archicad one in there, what are the odds.

# Good Diagram...

of wall composite priorities.

# Pixelated Stained Glass Window...

in Cologne, designed by Gerhard Richter. I have been a Richter fan since Daydream Nation. Via BB.

# That's a relief...

Bald cardinals are no cause for alarm. But the bald grackle is disgusting.

# Watch as...

the illusory wipes out the actual.

# Milage...

# iPhone Ads...

These are great. I expect an Apple ad to look good, look cool, make the thing look cool, and make me think I'm cool for seeing how cool it is, and I would be even cooler if I had one.

That's not what these do. At this point everyone has heard of the iPhone, everyone knows it's probably cool. And there won't be enough of them, so if you have one you're cool. Question: Does it really work? And how does it work? The ads go straight to the point. They appear to, incredibly, cut through the hype. They don't promise to make you a better person, they just show you how it works.

# LOLCODE...

LOL

# Michel Rojkind...

profile at Apple.com. Michel is the architect of, among numerous good works, the house pictured on the AC10 splash screen. Which is built, yes, and IIRC was done in 6.5, so take that. (h/t DNC)

# Strange Maps...

...is about just what it says. Check out this one of an imaginary generic territory. (Link. (Via Kottke)).

# Resources...

A Second Life avatar consumes as much electricity as the average Brazilian. Via TH.

# A Development...

Graphisoft will be acquired by Nemetschek AG of Germany. Nemetschek makes the VB-oriented Allplan. They are also the parent company of Vectorworks, the only other semi-serious CAD offering for the Mac, and Maxon, who make the extremely serious Cinema4D and, in turn, the MaxonForm blobby add-on for AC. They also appear to have money.

I have no intelligent observation to make about this, but it's certainly interesting. In one corner we will have a rack of capable European 3D software, in the other, the capable Revit hanging off the side of the Autodesk etch-a-sketch-a-drome. And in the third, the charming and youthful Sketchup, whose models are relatively information-free, but whose parent does nothing but model information.

# Depends What You Like...

Got around to pre-ordering Against The Day. After doing so Amazon recommended The Road and Count With Maisy. I'm sure they both make good points...

# Planted...

# I Shall Harm...

Word of the day: nocebo. Opposite of 'placebo'; inert stuff that harms, rather than helps, despite being inert. (Source)

# Central Asian Orthography News...

Stuff like this (Language Log) happens occasionally. Nothing to worry about.

# Nonsense...

Testing the idea of hierarchically inferior posts, so you can tell totally worthless stuff like this from your everyday worthless stuff. And yes I backdated this one so it wouldn't show up at the top.

# 'Imperfect Sound Forever'...

Interesting, longish essay on Stylus about why loud music is good and loud recording is bad.