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2013

“Picturesque descriptions will not mend broken circuits, Mr. Scott.”

Some of the best news you’ll read all week: shuttlecraft Galileo (NCC-1701/7) is being returned to its former glory—a “massive, ground-up + more

Kiss the Rest of Your Day Goodbye

Productivity, thy foe is the Amazing Fact Generator. While the degree of amazingness varies wildly*, it’s a lot of fun seeing + more

Done with Tolstoy

It’s easy to forget that some of the greatest works of fiction—Proust, Dostoevsky, Kafka—require the work of a translator to + more

“Copywriter” Just Missed the Cut

Another gem from Lapham’s Quarterly, here’s a look at some of the worst jobs of the last 2,000 years—though, to + more

Quote of the Day

Asked whether market research breeds mediocrity, Wally Olins had this to say: “If you are going to create something that is + more

Get Started on YOUR Copywriting Career!

“Writing is your passion. Why not make it your day job, too?” Ugh. Writer’s Digest University is selling this load + more

The Secret Life of Punctuation

Keith Houston has done a remarkable job in reducing the history of punctuation down to 530 words. Take a couple of + more

Musical Interlude

Spring seems (finally!) to have arrived in our neck of the woods. Regular readers of the blog know what that + more

Miscellany

A Russian billionaire (sure seems to be a lot of those lately) is building an army of cyborgs…while man-powered robotic + more

Lucky 13

Despite a long list of shortcomings that includes listening to Bon Jovi and keeping a man-eating tarantula on her desk, + more

Unsung Hero

Victoria Ertelt, library administrator at Mount Angel Abbey, poses next to one of the Alvar Aalto chairs on display at + more

A couple of architects walk into a museum…

Bob Nixon, left, and Glenn Davis visited SPOMa over the weekend. Nixon, who served as a partner at both Walker & + more

RIP, Storm Thorgerson

It’s a pity the digital age has somewhat lessened the impact of album cover art. Storm Thorgerson, who died yesterday, + more

“They waterproof their dense fur by preening it free of oil and schmutz…”

If this headline doesn’t reach out of your computer screen, grab you by the throat, and provide a vigorous demonstration + more

Word Porn

This is the sort of thing I love about the English language: seemingly arbitrary, yet also somehow rational—not to mention + more

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