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Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
🎧 The Daily: The Freshman, Part 1: Rashida Tlaib | New York Times
Now that the Democrats have taken back the House, their plan is to govern on a message of unity heading into 2020. A small group of new, progressive lawmakers threatens to upend that plan. Meet one of them.
🎧 The Daily: A Rift Over Power and Privilege in the Women’s March | New York Times
How tensions in the leadership of the protest movement burst into the open.
🎧 The Daily: A Republican Congressman From Texas Who Opposes the Wall | New York Times
Representative Will Hurd’s district runs along the southwestern border. His vision for border security is starkly different from the president’s.
👓 Why OAuth API Keys and Secrets Aren’t Safe in Mobile Apps | Okta Developer
Let's take a look at two ways it's possible to hack secret API keys out of mobile apps.
🎧 The Daily: William Barr Under Oath | New York Times
We look at how President Trump’s nominee for attorney general navigated the first day of his confirmation hearings.
👓 Empty Cans of Dehydrated Water | BEACH
Our friend Mr. Ronse recently brought a gag gift known as “Bernard Dehydrated Water” to my attention.
Packaged as if it were a canned food product, this item is clearly a part of that larger category of gag gifts: packages, containing ephemeral contents. (See: Rob Walker’s recent Design Observer post, “Rarified Air”)
The thing that’s unusual in this case is that “dehydrated water” seems to be the only novelty product of an otherwise legitimate food company: Bernard Food Industries.
Apparently on the market since 1962, their dehydrated water beverage is the only gag gift mentioned in a long list of trademarked applications for their standard label design. Also interesting, is how they’ve stipulated their trademark’s use for “novelty gift items, namely, empty cans.”
(Some trademark documents, after the fold…)
👓 Coca-Cola Urns | BEACH
Although the Han Dynasty urn on the left was originally fired sometime between 206 BC and 220 AD and the decorative “syrup urn” on the right was fired nearly 2000 years later, in the late 1800s or early 1900s, the two objects seem related, none-the-less.
👓 Christian Marclay – Selected Works | Paula Cooper Gallery
Skin Mix II, 1990, wood, 19 record covers and screws, 60 x 48 x 12 inches (150 x 120 x 30.5 cm)
👓 Maquette | Wikipedia
A maquette (French word for scale model, sometimes referred to by the Italian names plastico or modello) is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture. An equivalent term is bozzetto, from the Italian word that means 'sketch'.
👓 Intersecting Milk Cartons | BEACH
I was hoping that “intersecting milk cartons” were already a thing. But, alas, no example seemed to exist online. So, for the 5th and final day of “Polyhedral Milk Carton Week,” I had to make it myself.
What are we looking at? My 3D animation showing the intersection of two gable-top milk cartons. They intersect in (more or less) the same manner as a polyhedral compound of two cubes.
Of course, milk cartons are not cubes. They’re more like rectangular prisms. And it wasn’t at all obvious (to me) what the intersection would look like with taller shapes.
This is cool…
👓 Box Vox | Kicks Condor
Where does one put company blogs?
🎧 The Daily: Trump’s Pick for Attorney General | New York Times
We look at whether the changing of the guard at the Justice Department could also alter its often-acrimonious relationship with the president.
🎧 The Daily: Dispatches From the Border, Part 1 | New York Times
We joined our colleagues as they set out on a trip of nearly 2,000 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border.
🎧 The Daily: What a Border Sheriff Thinks About the Wall | New York Times
A sheriff in Arizona tells us how President Trump’s immigration policies have played out in his county, and why his interpretation of the president’s message has changed.