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Teddy Roosevelt is ready to rock and roll. You have to see this.

Horizontalism and Readability by Frank Chimero – “We may be able to kiss our scrollbars goodbye, but only if the implimentations are seamless and better than the existing paradigm.” Get on it, designer and programmer friends. We need this.

[Jack] I’ve done it. I fuckin did it.
[Kage] What?
[Jack] The most powerful tool in file-sharing technology since Napster, dude: Dropbox.
[Kage] What?
[Jack] Check it out. It’s an invention and it makes non-stop file-sharing possible. Think about it, man! File-sharers are only rockin you half the time! The other time they’re… they’re…. BREATHING! IN!! But not anymore, baby! Not with Dropbox!  Check it out…

The Kansas City Star stylebook that Ernest Hemingway once credited with containing “the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing” can be found online, in plain text, here. The deteriorated facsimile is here.

The City Sojourner #3: Venice at Gaucho – Summary: How do I save money in Venice? You don’t.

‘… [L]ife just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens. The O.J. Simpson trial lasted months, and much of it was deadly dull. Stories solve this problem—as the critic Clive James once put it, “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends.’ The Pleasures of Imagination by Paul Bloom at the Chronicle Review

The War of Art: An Interview with Steven Pressfield “… it never gets easier. You still have to slay the dragon every morning.”

It’s a couple months old and I don’t know how I missed it, but you must read this Vanity Fair feature on “the unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.” (Also, the second incarnation is up at exiledonline.com)

The Comprehensive Concert Photography Primer by Jeff Jewiss – This is boot camp if you want to be all you can be in the concert photography army

The Great Gizmo, Design by Choice, Reyner Banham, September 1965