August 2004

The Gnomon Workshop – Analog Library – design sketching DVDs, expensive though…

dropload – temporary file uploading and sharing, up to 100mb

glish.com : CSS layout techniques : 2 columns, ALA style – floated bulletproof columns

The Official Site of The 86th PGA Championship and Ryder Cup – beautiful, standards-based, unconventional and unique designs; possible emulation for Veritas/Scratchworthy?

Great commencement speech about artists taking over the world when computers make MBAs and engineers obsolete

“We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick – On “having done” things; the opposite of autotelism is doing things to “have done” them; it is the primary motivation for many educational and career choices. “You can’t be this; you can’t actually do this.” He chuckled. “But you can have been and…more

The Simpsons Archive: Episodes By Writer – good for finding other episodes by a writer whose episode you liked

LandSurfer.com, The Future of Extreme Boarding – board with good pivoted turning radius as needed for in-city travel

Future Horizons inc: Hoverboards – hoverboards?!?!

Transitioning to Autotelism

I haven’t written in a while, for reasons that include a renewed cycling career, spontaneous trips with friends, and busier-than-normal design work, but which really begin and end with an attempt to live my autotelic new year (yes, I realize it’s August). Somehow it just seemed disingenuous to be writing long essays about becoming a…more