The New York Times has a tremendous tumblr called The Lively Morgue.

Tina Roth Eisenberg believes everyone should have side projects. So do I.

Sad this is becoming a necessity, but handy.

via The Brooks Review

From Business Insider: The Kindle Fire Is The Fruitcake Of Tablets

The best headline of the year so far.

*If you know who the Jerky Boys are, you understand my title.

Photographer David Friedman put together a short documentary on the ‘father’ of the video game, Ralph Baer. His wife died to in 2006, but he continues to tinker and invent is his home laboratory. “What else am I going to do? I need a challenge.”, he says. I love how he’s an engineer by trade, but sees himself as an artist:

I still get a big charge out of making something work. I write the hardware, I push the button, I download it into the microprocessor… and it works. Ahhh, beautiful!

I’m basically an artist, no different from a painter that sits there and loves what he does.

Would you ask a guy who’s been painting his whole life why you’re still painting, why don’t you retire? Retire to what?! Stop painting? This is insane.

via The Atlantic

Abdel Ibrahim reviews the HTC One X for The TechBlock:

When it comes to Android, though, my second in-depth experience wasn’t any less jarring than the first. Despite my time in the trenches with ICS on the Galaxy Nexus, HTC has slapped on so much paint with Sense that I often struggled to find my way. And what I recognized I still didn’t like. Granted, I cut my teeth on iOS devices, which pride themselves on simplicity, but I refuse to believe Android couldn’t be more user friendly. For all its options, there’s too much clutter. But if you can look past that or are accustomed to Android, I have little doubt you’d love the HTC One X.

Translation: If you’re cool with messy, shitty experiences you should love this phone.
Talk about Android apologists.

Maurice Sendak, dead at 83
via The Atlantic via Drewbot

Influencer: Francisco Goya, The Shootings of May 3, 1808

Influenced: Yan Pei-Ming, Exécution, Après Goya, 2008

via Cool Hunting

Shawn Blanc says his iPad is now is laptop. Patrick Rhone of Minimal Mac agrees and even wrote his latest book all on an iPad.
To be clear, Blanc used to be a print designer and now writes full-time on his own site. I understand how it’s possible to be a writer and use just an iPad for work.
For me, I’m a web designer and rely heavily on my laptop to be productive. When I travel, it’s with 3 devices – my iPhone, my iPad and my MacBook Pro. While I am more senior at this point in my career and don’t find myself doing as much heavy lifting in Photoshop and Illustrator, I still need to use them.
I would love to reach a point where I just need to carry my iPad, but I still work on the farm and I need a truck (see also here).

Apparently in 1911 Dr. T. Kennard Thomson proposed to expand New York into its adjacent waters for a grand total of 50 square miles.
From Big Think:

By Dr Thomson’s estimates, enlarging New York according to his plans would cost more than digging the Panama Canal – but the returns would quickly repay the debt incurred and make New York the richest city in the world. He then goes on to describe how he would reclaim all that land. The plan’s larger outlines: move the East River east, and build coffer dams from the Battery at Manhattan’s southern tip to within a mile of Staten Island, on the other side of the Upper Bay, and the area in between them filled up with sand. This would enlarge Manhattan to an island several times its present size.

Here is one of his proposed expansion maps:

via thisisnthappiness

Arnold One-Liners by Kyle Kargov.
Why he’s not selling these, I don’t know.

via Public School