Required Reading: “Chocolate Vaccuum Cleaners, Brian Eno and Vice Preisdents” Smokler on November 3, 2009 Library Transformed into a 24 Hour, Open Air, Community Space – PSFK Hot! (tags: library germany design architecture) Being in your twenties is overrated I self-servingly agree. (tags: age generations twenties) NY TImes interview with James Dyson, inventor of the Dyson Vaccuum via Subtraction.com (tags: technology interview design inventor invention innovation jamesdyson) Nestle is the world's biggest chocolate maker and isn't sorry about it. — The Economist via Give Me Something to Read.com (tags: chcolate nestle business nutrition food) Consolidating Down To A Single Laptop Computer Simple. Organized. Life. Man do I need to do this. (tags: organization clutter computing) Brian Eno's essay introducing The Long Now Foundation via Steven Johnson (tags: time urbanism clock longnow brianeno) Rundown of Memoirs by, eh Vice Presidents? — The Awl Thrilling. (tags: vicepresident memoirs books politics) When Do Rich Kids Realize They're Rich? Vanity Fair on class awareness among children (tags: vanityfair class children money economics)
Required Reading: “Maya Lin, I-an-Out Burger, Roger Ebert and Recliners” Smokler on October 8, 2009 Sketches of Maya Lin's original submission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial One very special memorial (via 37Signals) (tags: design architecture mayalin vietnam memorial washingtondc) Pasadena, CA will soon have an all-recliner, cocktail service movie theater: Cinema Treasures (tags: movies film cinema theaters luxury) See all those Yahoo ads around? Is it a $100 million waste of money? — Business Week (tags: yahoo marketing advertising business strategy) Maybe we shouldn't have given up middlebrow culture so easily: The Chronicle of Higher Education (tags: books middlebrow greatbooks culture literature reading arts education class humanities intellectuals learning) A new book on the unmatched success of In-and-Out Burger: The Weekly Standard via AL Daily (tags: food fastfood business success inandoutburger book businessbook) Roger Ebert on a lifetime of reading… Beautiful… (tags: books rogerebert reading)
