December 2010
45 posts
Mt. Pleasant is getting a pop-up arts space this... →
How can Atlanta put together something like this?
brookehatfield:
Early next year D.C. will get its second Temporium, a pop-up arts space, this time in Mt. Pleasant. The D.C. Office of Planning awarded a $15,000 grant as part of itsTemporary Urbanism Initiative to “transform vacant storefronts or spaces into a unique temporary retail shop for local entrepreneurs to exhibit and sell their...
New Google Graphs Reveal Centuries Of Dicks, Pimps... →
Linguistic Pet Peeves. Got Any?
nprfreshair:
Here are some of Geoff Nunberg’s linguistic pet peeves:
When I hear people say “oversimplistic,” I suspect they don’t know that “simplistic” means that all by itself. I wish somebody would drive “arguably” and “quite possibly” into the sea. And it seems to me it’s almost always a bad idea to begin a sentence with “I pride myself on.”
What are yours?
Emory prof wins prestigious Grawemeyer award
Emory prof wins prestigious Grawemeyer award
Johnson, 67, said he would likely use the money to do something “dreadfully pedestrian like pay down my mortgage” instead of flying off to Tahiti. “I don’t need to get my groove back.”
Internet Blocking Software →
I just read about this over the weekend. I definitely could have used this in grad school.
Freedom
http://macfreedom.com/
Freedom is a simple productivity application that locks you away from the internet on Mac or Windows computers for up to eight hours at a time. Freedom frees you from distractions, allowing you time to write, analyze, code, or create. At the end of your offline period,...