“Hemingway personally liberated its bar from the Nazis. Proust ordered from it on his deathbed. Sophia Loren declared it “the most romantic hotel in the world.” It was, of course, the Paris Ritz — headquarters and playhouse to Coco Chanel, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, and Ingrid Bergman, among others. As the hotel closes… Read more »
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In Memory of Blue
[I]f you ever wonder who has the more unconditional love for you, put your spouse and your dog in the trunk of the car for one hour. When you open it, who’s still happy to see you? I’ve heard variations of this quote many times over the years and it always makes me laugh a… Read more »
pentametron.com
How awesome is this? Pentametron scours Twitter looking for tweets that are in iambic pentameter and then combines them into sonnets.
Link Droppings
News & Notes Couple married 72 years dies holding hands — from kottke.org Jason Kottke also published an epic round-up of all the best stories, comments, obituaries, collections, videos, etc. about Steve Jobs. Top Ten Misused English Words — from listverse.com 4 Personal Finance Principles That Would Make Your Grandfather Proud — from The Art… Read more »
Daily David
Declaration 1776 sells Revolutionary t-shirts celebrating the origins of our nation. (*These are badass.) I used the free version for about a month and last night finally decided it was time to cough up the $3.00/mo for my Instapaper subscription. “What’s Instapaper, David?” It’s only one of the most brilliant apps EVAH! Basically it lets… Read more »
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The Timeless Beauty of National Geographic is a wonderful article examining the stability of a famous brand aesthetic. (I used to love reading NG in my elementary school library when I was a kid and just last year decided to get my very own subscription. Every article in every issue is fabulous, just as they… Read more »
Daily David
James Franco seems to be everywhere right now. There was a great article in New York Magazine last month — The James Franco Project — and it looks like he is going to be the star of September’s issue of Esquire. The crazy thing is that he legitimately sounds really interesting. Console jocks, by Tim… Read more »
Daily David
“When I see a guy alone at a café without a device open, I assume that he’s either got the iPhone antenna problem or that he’s a serial killer … I’m almost never alone with my thoughts anymore.” (from Blogging from the Shower, by Dave Pell) I really love these vintage social media advertisements. Sterling… Read more »
Daily David
The Banana Song will haunt your dreams. The photo of an iPhone 4 on the cover of the September 2010 issue of Macworld was taken with an iPhone 4. “He needed to know how Big Bird could possibly have arisen from evolutionary history: What are its relatives? How did it achieve such a unique bone… Read more »
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The story of the creation of the “Wanted” posters for Jonah Hex is pretty fascinating. About five years ago, on September 1, 2005, I sat at a coffee shop across the street from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and could not believe just how much it leans. And that was five years after they fixed… Read more »