Weekend 373.0
(1) I-75/University Parkway Diverging Diamond Interchange Design (YouTube) (2) Creator of Brompton folding bicycle steps down from company’s board – disgruntled at way business is run (This is Money) (3) Continue Reading →
Author Archives: Winston Smith
Invisible transfers, long distance calls, hollow laughter in marble halls…
“For hard cash, we will lie and deceive…even our masters don’t know the webs we weave.” – Pink Floyd (1) The Mendacity Behind Obama’s Mockery of the Cash-for-Iran Story by Continue Reading →
Weekend 372.1
“So the little prince, in spite of all the good will that was inseparable from his love, had soon come to doubt her. He had taken seriously words which were Continue Reading →
Weekend 372.0 (…it’s worth trying to explain in picture…)
(1) Friday A/V Club: What We Left at the World’s Fair: John Crowley and Jason Robards look back at a festival of social planning (1a) The World of Tomorrow 1/6 Continue Reading →
Musical Interlude
(1) String Quartet No. 2 In D Major
Weekend 371.0
(1) How miniature objects reveal bigger pictures (CBS This Morning)
Weekend 370.1
The apple tree in my backyard has rust. The good folks at the local nursery assure me it will survive, but I’m still devatsted nonetheless (no apples in the fall). Continue Reading →
Weekend 370.0
(1) After Brexit: the myth of post‑truth politics (spiked) “But perhaps the worst thing about the post-truth notion is the way it redefines politics. It makes politics like religion. Remainers, Continue Reading →
Weekend 369.0
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. – Wallace Stevens “Do you wish to be Continue Reading →
Weekend 368.1
Rush hour in sepia #shareGCT by @anjanihr pic.twitter.com/TnEesprGZx — GrandCentralTerminal (@GrandCentralNYC) July 5, 2016 (1) New Yorkers can start using a secret subway tunnel under Central Park this December (Quartz) Continue Reading →