This weekend I completed a big update on Brian Booker's website.
We added a number of new artworks, a video of him reading, and content management system to help keep the site up-to-date.
If you're on Cape Cod this weekend, you can see him read at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown on Saturday the 13th at 8pm.
The Onion News Network covers the hotly-anticipated new 'cross-over' bestseller, Green Man, Blue Cat.
Just made a donation to C. Murray Consulting for the excellent Recommended Reading: Google Reader Shared WordPress plugin that's powering that part of the sidebar. It's a well-conceived product, worth using and supporting.
Click through for last few days worth of shared items:
Mind-blowing Rube Goldberg machine video from Ok Go.
Update aaaand then there's also this equally-mind-blowing version:
OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
Ok Go - This Too Shall Pass
Here is another Bureau Blank project that launched recently: a public calendar for Living Cities.
The nicest feature is that the client can fully control the events, RSVPs and meeting materials from their Salesforce account. Changes they make on Salesforce are pulled over automatically.
Faint double rainbow action.
I recently discovered there are three types of dashes:
I'm attempting to synthesize the information at Wikipedia, since the Chicago Manual of Style page on the subject is behind a paywall. The key equivalents above are for Mac, and the rules below are for American English.
I believe that hyphens are used to separate or disambiguate parts of a single concept (in their examples, award-winning or even compound concepts like Bose-Einstein or McCain-Feingold).
En dashes should be used to separate ranges, like June 12th–July14th, or the Giants won 7–3. There should not be spaces surrounding.
Em dashes should be used for parenthetical clauses—such as this one—and also should not have spaces.
Of course there are special cases, but I think this is a pretty good start.
I think this is a pretty good review of Marina & the Diamonds' debut album: it notes the Dresden Dolls influence (particularly evident in this song) and makes the following observation:
But it's her taste for the bleeding obvious which, ultimately, holds her back from greatness. … It's this kind of route-one thinking which reins in The Family Jewels … the song about being an outsider is called "The Outsider". The song about being rootless is called "Rootless." The song about feeling numb is called... OK, you're ahead of me.
Indeed! (And that's another similarity with Amanda Palmer.) But there's something wonderfully, obscenely uncensored about this obviousness. Like the video for her single Hollywood. Because yep! There can be no doubt from the look on her face that she, Marina Diamandis, is indeed obsessed with the mess that is America.
I hope she's looking forward to her upcoming dates in NYC. We are very much looking forward to seeing her.
Marina & the Diamonds - Are You Satisfied?
I came across this old post about my work on the Sites of Conscience site and thought I'd bring it up to date.
The design has continued to evolve, and I've made some updates to the programming, such as adding a new tab, and a newsticker on the homepage, and some new methods of administering newsletters, press releases and institutional members.
A lot of the content has evolved too, particularly in the sections on the right side of the navigation.
I've learned a lot from working on this project for the last few years. I'm not sure I ever would have really gotten into WordPress if not for this project. So this blog would be a lot different!
The map graphic on the home page is by Kerstin Vogdes.
This is a good review of the Joy Formidable show 1/11 in Brooklyn, with video and everything.
Also impressive is how quickly he posted -- 1/12 at 12:16am? That's dedication.
