Archive for May 2009

Because We Need a Laugh

From Antick Musings, publishing light-bulb jokes: A few samples:

Q. How many copyeditors does it take to change a lightbulb? A. The last time this question was asked, it involved art directors. Is the difference intentional? Should one or the other instance be changed? It seems inconsistent.

Q. How many publishers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A. Three. One to screw it in, two to hold down the author.

What are your favorite lightbulb jokes?

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Gorgeous Pictures

Joe Decker is having a 72-hour sale on nature photography.

Now, Joe is something of a cross between Ansel Adams and Galen Rowell. In other words, a hellaciously fine photographer of nature. And this sale includes many of his best pictures of glaciers, icebergs, moonrise, and the motion of light on water. Some are traditional landscapes. Others show the world almost as an abstraction, a texture, a pattern.

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Arts and (Air)Craft

The Unlikely Events of a Water Landing: New Photos From Flight 1549. Fascinating chronicle of the salvage effort by a photographer on the inside. It shows the whole process of pulling the plane out of the Hudson. Very, very cool.

Bay Area Coolness, Episode 43,279. They’re building a rocket ship in Oakland. Yes, you will be able to visit it. And when I say “they,” I do not mean NASA or even Pixar. I mean some independent artists. Link courtesy rmjwell.

The air that I breathe, AKA Hazmat Crisis at AT&T. This article is being clipped or printed and posted in office kitchens all over the US.

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The greatest thing
in the world
is the Alphabet
as all knowledge
is contained therein
except the wisdom
of putting it together.
—from an old German bookplate