Rectilinear normalization
The whooshing sound
What cabbies want
Endangered sounds
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“As French gastronomer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin presciently noted, back in …
The four word education plan
Nap to it
Jen Bekman defines boundaries
Evolve
Making face: avatars in everyday media
Writers get so fixated on the mechanics of writing that …
Choose your own musical adventure
Underground etiquette
Grape guidelines
The joy of walking
I’d like to write something that comes from things the …
The possibility of neighborhoods
The joy of print
Great energy expenditure and risk with apparent pointlessness
New York City as business
There is no style store
The Gruen transfer
The Pipeline, episode 12
Wordnik developer challenge
“Only the mediocre is unendurable,” wrote Mark Twain. [H]e could …
The other 20 percent
Writing about the writing room
If bees were masters of the skies
Choosing close quarters
Faking it
On the passing-ness of things
Honk history
There’s value in obscurity. Clive Thompson in “In Praise of …
The disappointment of things
Getting to third drive
Cinema impromptu
The God complex approach to UX
Isolating variegation through simplicity with take-out beverage lids, but also …
Off the greeting path
Design in high spaces
In praise of shadows
Census matters
From here to then
Curating the human imagination
Designing with film
The elaboration likelihood model
The stories of the Math Winnebago
Take it to the limit
Proper noun panic narrowly averted