You can’t always get what you want
[Image: The first paper clip was invented in 1867, and …
RIP: The laptop
Centuries-old words on the iPad
Cartographic confusion
Management secrets of the Grateful Dead, or strategic improvisation
In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, …
The shape of music
The commuters paradox
Pencil genealogy
You guys
The enthusiasm currency
Deliverable undesirable
Two four-letter words
Presidential thank-you pens
Office in motion
LA-based artist Mark Bennett is a seasoned television watcher who …
In praise of nothingness
Trial and error 101
To speculate in Wall Street when you are no longer …
Negentropy is more
Some things old
Editors at large are chattering about the official White House …
Improvisation and design, video
Signed, sealed, dirigibled
David Byrne on avoiding writer’s block: After the initial transcription …
Normals
The universal 12th language
If you want to get lucky … it pays to …
@ at the MoMA
The head bump and other retail challenges
Even though life is disgusting sometimes, I’ll get up again. …
Happiness is working hard
Ideal bookshelves
Most abandoned yet available
Attribution effect in transportation choice
Under the skyscraper patterns
The etymology of a shake
[Image: The spectacular view of the starry sky has long …
Harmony, a procedural drawing tool
Lookalike avatars encourage exercise
A window into David Foster Wallace’s mind
The nearest kind of association is not mere perceptual cognition, …
New vehicles for design
The potential of the comic trajectory
The deconstructed taco
Slow to the touch
From Safire to Zimmer on language
Chunk of print frightens nation
Relaxing the no-applause rule