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Whither Moral Courage? By Salman Rushdie

LB — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:43:05 +0000

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Police officers carried off an Occupy D.C. demonstrator in Washington, October 2011.

I’m reprinting this article here because I think it’s worth reading and I don’t think it should be behind the NYT paywall.

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Pollyanna and Cassandra

LB — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:23:43 +0000

I anxiously await the 2009 NYT Trender tool so we can see how things have changed since 2008, a year in which Cassandra ended on the decline while Pollyanna was on the ascendant.

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Woodstock nostalgia

LB — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:16:36 +0000

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No, you bite me, Karim Rashid.

LB — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:51:13 +0000

This is Karim Rashid’s new “Bite Me” Chair, a garish blobject in the shape of a bubblegum-pink molar. There was a pretty unanimous chorus of dislike and disapproval of this chair on the CDR (Canadian Design Resource) blog in May, and Rashid – the master of plasticky furniture that looks carelessly cheap when it’s made and then ages badly – totally deserved it.

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Roald Dahl’s writing shed

LB — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:18:45 +0000

This writing studio somehow comes as no suprise. James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Dahl’s disturbing adult stories were written in this cramped, somewhat decrepit room.

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Fia Backstrom – living in your art studio

LB — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:54:05 +0000

I love this art object/piece of furniture by artist Fia Backstrom, who has had a number of exhibitions in Vancouver. From the NYT article “Artful Lodgers“:

Fia Backstrom describes her apartment near the Gowanus Canal as a perpetual battle between organization and chaos.

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“The king has donkey ears” should have been used more often in 2008.

LB — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:35:54 +0000

I found this neat tool [Update: tool now offline, but try this one] after Jer Thorp made me some design-related graphs. Actually, Jer found it.

The words we use when we think about design, 1984 to 2009

LB — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:47:17 +0000

This graph shows the occurrence of the terms “decor” (blue) and “interior design” (red) in The New York Times between 1984 and 2009. What happened to the word “decor”? It fell out of usage in approximately February, 2001, maybe a result of a change in editorial style policy?