Paper.js: the latest Jonathan Puckey project, an “open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas.” See the examples (and the editable code) here.
Best Dutch Book Designs.
Shoot Factory: a website with a dedicated library of shooting locations in London.
Beautiful microscopic images on FEI company’s flickr stream.
Simon Walker’s “vintage” logo designs (1 2).
Hilarious video of a New York City bicyclist receiving a ticket for not riding in the bike lane (so as to avoid common bike lane obstructions).
A brief history of the hashtag, a symbol that can be “a more sophisticated, verbal version of the dread winking emoticon that tweens use to signify that they’re joking.”
“Technology and Political Sex Scandals”—in a digital flux, self-confident politicians recklessly disregard common sense.
“Why Women Don’t Get Caught Up in Sex Scandals”—an interesting New York Times article on how gender can define a politician’s behavior.
“Faux Friendship”—another excellent article by William Deresiewicz, this time on facebook and friendship.
Just when I learn Final Cut, Apple introduces Final Cut Pro X. David Pogue’s review of the easier-to-use software.
JR on the stoops of Brooklyn.
“Collection is additive. Curation is subtractive. Collecting is for yourself, curating is for others.”—a post by Frank Chimero on curating v. collecting.
New York Times article on how European cities are “openly hostile to cars,” favoring bicycling and public transit instead.
“Male cyclists in New York outnumber female cyclists three to one.” Time to move to Copenhagen or Amsterdam.
An editorial by James Gleick, author of The Information, on how the need to see an original book is sentimentalism—no one owns information in the age of digitization.
A beautiful New York Times visualization that plots reader’s comments on how Congress should respond to the debt crisis.
Stieg Larsson’s “trilogy that has been met with such an enthusiastic but curiously apolitical response [though it] was written by a consummately political man”—an article that revisits Larsson’s warning of far-right movements in light of the Oslo attacks.