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: “Monty Python, Old Growth, and Gender Blindness” Smokler on October 13, 2009 Secret features of Google Reader via Micropersuasion (tags: google googlereader text rss articles reading) Rock climbing is the only truly gender-blind sport: Double X (tags: sports gender rockclimbing athletics) What will our lousy economy do to the generation just entering the workforce? Business Week Scary. (via Give Me Something to Read) (tags: economics recession unemployment work future generations) Christopher Hitchens on Monty Python's 40th Anniversary: Vanity Fair (tags: montypython anniversary comedy british uk christopherhitchens) Pitchfork: The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 20-1 via Subtraction.com (tags: music 2000s list lists albums pitchfork) Stephen Johnson on Old Growth Media A must read…. (tags: business media journalism newspapers trends onlinejournalism future) The grim present and hopeful future of the Literary Journal: Times UK via AL Daily (tags: journals literaryjournal publishing writing literature future trends)