May 2013
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April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
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January 2013
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Rex-a-Sketch
Over the course of 2013, I’ll be posting lots of sketches here. Not sure of what. Don’t even know the style. Starting out with random drawings of every day things with some copy attached. I’m using the iPad App called Paper to create them. It won’t necessarily be an every day thing. But some days, I will post lots of them. Just an experiment and exercise.
December 2012
5 posts
“It has always been my opinion that ‘education’ is something...
– Joi Ito’s Trends to Watch in 2013 | Think with Google
Before we invented automobiles, air-conditioning, flatscreen video displays, and...
– Kevin Kelly, “Better Than Human,” Wired.com, 12.24.2012
Advice to gun lovers who are clueless
I have advice for anyone who feels the need to defend the Second Amendment today.
It is professional advice. It is also friendly and free advice.
Here’s the advice: Don’t.
Pick another time. Anytime.
But today, to use an internet acronym I’ve never used before, do yourself and everyone else a favor: Just STFU.
Even your most articulate, well-researched, and, perhaps to...
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November 2012
8 posts
Making sure the Berlin club scene doesn’t die is more important than...
– Felix Petersen (@fiahless) on the BBC World Service program, Global Business. Episode: “ Start Up City” (The story includes great advice for any city wanting to create an environment that fosters startups — or any creative scene.)
How to handle a political scandal
[Updated on 11.13.2012 - While I would like to delete this post and pretend it never happened, I’ll confess: Everything you read from here on is wrong. I showed extremely poor judgment and wishful thinking on my part to think that a scandal can be “handled.” It was sheer fantasy to believe someone could actually handle a scandal the appropriate way, which is to say, any way...
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If there is a Pulitzer Prize for interactive graphics, NYTImes.com’s election-related maps deserves it. This “how voters shifted” from 2008-2012 is mesmerizing, a term I’ve never before used to describe an election map.
How Natural Disasters Can be Like Twitter
[This is also posted on RexBlog.com, however, there are some “load” issues there so I decided to post it here also.]
How we learn about, or even how we experience, major disasters spread over large regions, can be like Twitter: Snippets of truth, opinions, rumors, lies, inspiration, whining, complaining, heroism, sacrifice, brilliance, ignorance — a collection of ”small...
October 2012
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At Punahou School 34 years ago, one of his English teachers asked the class a...
– David Maraniss, “Obama’s way with words,” The Washington Post, October 12, 2012.
September 2012
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It’s silly to expect your customers to care about your corporate...
– Seth’s Blog: How to downgrade