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Book Designs of 2008

Via the penguin blog and featuring this incredible ABC3D book from Roaring Brook Press. Absolutely magical. link

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Almost there

We made our minds up back in January. Feels like the waiting is almost over. We’ll be glued to Fivethirtyeight tonight, and hoping.

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Oi Polloi

The Guardian has a profile of Steve Sanderson, who is one of the owners of Oi Polloi, the best menswear shop in the world. Now if only they would open a branch in London…..

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LOVE SAVES THE DAY

Eskil Steenberg‘s one man game, LOVE looks incredible. Could be a defining moment in indie game development and good for everyone if it helps get us past the ‘games and violence’ debates and onto talking about video games as culture.… Continue reading

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A temporary break in my self-imposed Wire-fast

The why is it. The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and… Continue reading

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Bubble, bubble toil and trouble

“Essentially, what has happened in this country is that we’ve confused home ownership with the acquisition of wealth,” says Adam Sampson, Shelter’s chief executive. “Those two concepts, which should be distinct, have become irrevocably yoked together. It shows plainly in… Continue reading

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Aglimore

Prints etc on etsy. Nice.

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Roubini in The (New York) Times

The United States, Roubini went on, will likely muddle through the crisis but will emerge from it a different nation, with a different place in the world. “Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers,” he… Continue reading

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If only all electric cars looked this dope.

The SAM car from CREE, looks like it’s arrived from the future. (and maybe it has) I so would. more here

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“Pineapple Express just may be the Casablanca of Pot Comedies”

Greencine rounds up the first reviews, here. (it’s looking good)

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