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Explanation and perspective on the looming screenwriters' strike from John August, a screenwriter.

"In the late 19th century you cut her name into the cornfields, hoping someone would invent the airplane."

It's all true. All right!

A "table of brand element terms."

It's a bubble, yes, but it may not pop in the same way it did last time. There's a coastal divide in opinion, too, with NYers skeptical and Valley workers optimistic despite the reality. We'll see...

Brilliant art preserved in digitized notebooks and gallery technology to make the experience just as good (from the folks at Behavior). To all of my friends in NYC, *please* go see. Interesting to note how the iPhone has already raised the bar.

"Bunnygrunt are an American indie pop band from St. Louis, Missouri." From the depths of sophomore year's word-association compendium comes this band.

Trent was an Oink user and regrets its disappearance. The Reznor-Williams collaboration, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!, a mind-boggling fusion of genres," will be released for free on the internet. "Ghetto gothic?"

"These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer."

"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox" Excellent.

Create vector graphics files from any uploaded photo, painting, logo, etc. Save as EPS or SVG. Insanely cool.

A wonderful idea, brilliantly executed. I'd love a print of this.

Another Ze Frank project, this one centered on crowd-sourced advice. Write a letter to Ze asking for guidance, get it from everyone else. Intriguing!

Stylus is shutting down, unfortunately. Here's their own excellent guide to the best of the site. Great weekend reading.

"Confused by some of the references and slang in The Office? You may well be if you're a Yank." Ricky Gervais explains some twenty-odd slang terms on video.

"...the war is not what the media or the leaders of the religious right would have you think it is. It’s not Blue States vs. Red States. I think the Times has it right: The front line is within the red states"

Excellent surreal porcelain sculptures, drawings, etc. Her "Once I had a Child" is used on Canadian supergroup Swan Lake's "Beast Moans" cover. Awesome!

An excellent resource for wireframing.

"A politically charged photography exhibition" -- she took away her subjects' lollipops and photographed them. Caught flak. Wanted "to convey that the children, if they knew, would be really upset about the way the world is going."

"Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice."

Friend Tom Wironen walks across in front of the stage around 0:35. Awesome! Not a bad song, either.

Is glad to see OiNK gone. Laments the conservatism and insularity of the community, made up, he says, of "supposed music fans who tricked themselves into believing [OiNK] could substitute for a sustainable approach to supporting music as art."

Interesting project: implants to raise the skin into Braille. "opportunity for blind people to have a meaningful body alteration, but also something what could be used by those who live or work with blind people."

Customer service done right.

FSJ posts on the photo my friend Dean took of the UMass antipiracy campaign poster.

A superb guide for anyone proposing ideas to clients who challenge you in potentially frustrating ways.

On the new NYC taxi logo: how it got to where it is and what some designers think. It could be worse, but it could be better.

On using microformats in posts and the like. Takes a considerable amount of extra effort, but that's what being an early adopter is all about.

My thoughts on Clay Shirky's "Arrogance and Humility." Kottke's ping struck up a shared link storm today, two weeks later.