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...blue covers and silver edging. On the floor, behind a Marc Newson desk, was a rugby ball. Overlapping framed images leaned against the wall: a Banksy print of the Queen with the face of a chimpanzee, and a poster, well known in design circles, that begins, “Believe in your fucking self. Stay up all fucking night,” and ends, many admonitions later, “Think about all the fucking possibilities.” Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - The New Yorker

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...n environment of dust sheets and undecorated walls, a bag of Whole Foods nuts, on a shelf, makes a loud claim for attention. But the room’s minimalism derives from nondisclosure more than from dogma. Ive’s aesthetic is not austere: one could think of the work done here as a reticent man’s idea of exuberance, with rapture expressed in the magnetic click of a power adapter. Richard Seymour, a British designer who has known Ive for years, recently referred to his friend’s “emotionally warm modernism.” Clive Grinyer, a friend and former London colleague of Ive’s, said, ap... Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - The New Yorker

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Come on, though, the MagSafe’s magnetic snap–you can’t even call it a snap it’s more like a magnetic embrace–is SO COOL!

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And now, Comcast is doing it. On a remote. With Apple's signature font, no less. Behold: Comcast ripped off Apple's tagline to make a TV remote look special | The Verge

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Rather than delusions of grandeur, maybe this is a jab at Apple’s pomposity, a little design humor on the level of typography. @cdixon

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Real Southerners—Confederate enthusiasts—had made the pilgrimage too. Ambling through the yard in his uniform, Philip Logan, a tall and portly Civil War reenactor from Centreville, Virginia, inspected the headstones: Ferguson, Cullen, Pyles. Born: Texas. Died: Brazil.
The Brazilian Town Where the American Confederacy Lives On | VICE | United States

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I highly recommend reading Tony Horwitz’s book Confederates in the Attic on Civil War reenactment culture.

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... the thousands of Confederates who had rejected Reconstruction and fled the United States in the wake of the Civil War—a voluntary exile that American history has more or less erased. Their scattered diaspora has gathered annually for the past 25 years. The party they throw, which receives funding from the local government, is the family reunion of the Confederados, one of the last remaining enclaves of t...
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A fair word choice–literally meaning a scattering of population–though we might be more accustomed to hearing it in the connected context of the African displacement caused by slavery.

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Dispora (Greek) in the context of Jews dispersion since the destruction of the first temple in Jerusalem in 587 BC.

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I agree, though, that the term usually gets deployed in context of violence that precipitated that scattering… it’s not a word you’d generally use to talk about American Confederates.

But the Confederados would definitely argue their forefathers were driven out of the States. They see their ancestors as victims of Northern cruelty (and hence themselves as a kind of diaspora that formed as a result of that violence).

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...er was yammering about in his 2013 Teen Choice Awards speech, or just looking to take a long, informed stroll through “The Waste Land,” it’s easy to get lost wandering the expository halls of Genius.

And the price of admission is just two cents.

 genius.com annotates all things with words, lyrics - Arts - The Boston Globe

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Cute! And it’s true!! All Genius costs is your intellectual contribution–your two cents.

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Embedding a text block means that people will read the thing you want them to read without having to follow a link. It, genuinely, saves a click (without being condescending!). The Rise Of The Screenshort™ - BuzzFeed News

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It also focuses in on a point for discussion. A link is a click, but it’s also a text. As a former teacher, I want the unit of discussion to be smaller: a line or two.

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