The Puget News

Fiona interpreted by Janeane Garofalo lip-synched by Chris Glass.

Quoted: This was a joke that was spawned by a post on a blog, write me for the story, I’m too tired to spill it.

The new Razr2 commercial by director Michael Gondry is great.

Quoted: A novel about the affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney.

A collection of writers’ rooms.

I love these. Classic literature in the shape of cigarette boxes. Great for kids!

Just what I’ve always wanted! A map of fetishes. If yours isn’t on here, you must be really twisted!

With lack of real estate a real problem, Londoners are burrowing down instead.

A collection of many interesting quotes from Alan Greenspan’s new book, “The Age of Turbulence.”

Quoted: Venice, I realized, is the antithesis of creative destruction. It exists to conserve and appreciate the past, not create a future. But that, I realized, is exactly the point. The city caters to a deep human need for stability and permanence as well as beauty and romance. Venice’s popularity represents one pole of a conflict in human nature: the struggle between the desire to increase material well-being and the desire to ward off change and its attendant stress.”

A NYT piece about Ayn Rand’s influence on well known capitalists, including Alan Greenspan.

Quoted: Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,”a glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest, influenced Alan Greenspan and others.

Even (especially) as a color-blind person, I am intrigued by this - it’s a list of top grossing movie poster colors broken down by rating. You can see that as you move from G rating to R rating movies, the colors become much more black and fleshy.

Quoted: Speak Up is an open forum to discuss matters related to Graphic Design.

“Architecture of Authority” author Richard Ross interviewed. An interesting project to photograph physical spaces that force us to negotiate institutions.

Quoted: An online magazine, published weekdays.

These are great. Fictitious company t-shirts from movies, etc. I love the Amity Island shirt (Jaws) and Might Mick’s Boxing (Rocky).

Quoted: t-shirt designs which are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in 20th century fiction.

The Guardian takes a look at blogs through the lens of Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language.”

Quoted: From the Orwellian point of view, it is the violence the internet does to the English language as much as its challenge to the journalistic infrastructure that is the biggest anxiety.

Michiko Kakutani reviews the newest book on the Bush administration. This one looks a bit frightening and worth reading.

Quoted: A chilling new book provides an inside account of the Bush administration, revealing its obsession with expanding presidential power and its arrogant unilateralism.

I searched for this program on TV and haven’t been able to find it running anytime soon. There’s a nice introductory video on this page though.

“Saved by the Wrecking Ball” is the controversial story of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House.