The Frame

Apr 17

Play him off keyboard cat! This gets me every time.
Speaking of memes, here’s a hilarious video explaining “Yo Dawg I herd you like…”
Geoffrey Pullum rips on Strunk & White (via: Arts & Letters Daily)
This week in mash-ups: Sitcoms with literary captions (via rach) /Family Circus cartoons with random Nietzsche quotes.
Backyard Bill is like The Selby but with clothes instead of interiors. (via ACL)
Scripts from The Wire turn up. From David Simon’s proposal: “But more than an exercise is realism for its own sake, the verisimilitude of The Wire exists to serve something larger.” (via kottke)

Apr 10

The New York Public Library Digital Gallery presents a collection of author portraits: Authors: Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. A lot of Walt. I like the Conrad bust. (via: Readerville)
This week in fear-mongering: Mark McKinnon blames the conficker virus on p2p networks. The article sounds more like a paid advertisement by the RIAA: “Whatever the girls were downloading for ‘free,’ it’s a pretty safe bet that it could have been bought for less than two grand [the amount of a tax refund the girls’ family lost due to a p2p networking leak].”
Apparently, journalists are not expected to practice journalism, as demonstrated in this article where ‘Fox & Friends’ reporters were not held liable for reporting an obvious satire—from a website that lets anyone write news stories—as real news.
William H. Gass’ library. (via: The Rumpus)

Apr 3

NY Mag reviews the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album without apparently bothering to listen to it. No “shortage of excitement” on the new album? A “brave” new direction? Riiight.
An interesting discussion about how Kerouac polarizes people. I weigh in (as ‘marshponds’) as an anti-anti-Kerouacian.
Esquire Magazine releases a tumblr theme.
A virtual tip jar. Here’s a confusing explanation of why it’s better than paypal for donations.
A new competitor to Shirt Woot. TeeFury sells a new t-shirt everyday for only $9+$2 for shipping anywhere in US. From what I’ve seen, the designs on TeeFury top Woot, but I wonder how the quality compares.
A directory of typographic posters. So many artists but no thumbnails.

More stately mansions.