[Saturday, May 17, 2008]
[For the love of diagrams]
Oxygen + Heat + Fuel.
The Fire Tetrahedron, from Hobart Institute of Welding Technology.
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Monthly Archive May, 2008
[For the love of diagrams]
[Friday, May 16, 2008]
[These are words that I have read]
Perhaps a career in firefighting.
“People ask me, ‘What do you do?’ And I tell them I’m a writer, but always with the silent reservation, ‘I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.’
“I like to stay in my room. I have an office and I go there every day and write. I used to think I’d […]
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[Thursday, May 15, 2008]
[For the love of diagrams]
The Ebb and Flow of Movies.
The New York Times has posted a glorious interactive graphic of box office grosses from 1986 to 2008. See how blockbusters spike and then fizzle away and word-of-mouth favorites extend into plump worms. I love how the graphic turns the film industry into a thorny, twisting vine of earth-toned globs — clumped together […]
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