http://nurblog.nurble.com yep. a blog. contain yourselves Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:37:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Listen to nurblecast 16 ➤ Hey, how ya been? Ready for another bushel of sweet tunes? Of course you are: Lately - The Helio Sequence My friend Henry turned me on to these dudes by dragging me to a show at the Bowery Ballroom last May. I really liked the show, but the ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/06/01/nurblecast-episode-16/ So I've been working my way slowly through Helvetica, the documentary about the font. I love it, it's both geeky and rewarding in a way that not many things are, but it's also kinda hard work. Listening to designers talk about the mundanities of typefaces, and drone on about the ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/05/03/helvetica/ From a New York Times article about South Park comes this interesting tidbit of TV history: It brings to mind a similar arrangement made by another visionary, the sorely underestimated Desi Arnaz. In 1951, for “I Love Lucy,” the show he did with his wife, Lucille Ball, he suggested that CBS ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/03/05/549/ via nick douglas http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/03/03/stoner-towel-math/ Well this is fun. From Greg Sargent comes a strategy memo written by NeoCon architect and all-around douchebag Bill Kristol back during the 1993 war to defeat Clinton's Healthcare agenda: Well, I have obtained a PDF copy — you can read the whole thing right here. And it’s really a ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/03/02/bill-kristol-fucking-you-over-for-political-gain-since-1993/ Who knew? Via War and Piece comes a Huffington Post article about some apparent hanky-panky surrounding the awarding of a contract to build 28 new Presidential helicopters to an Italian aerospace firm: "Obama Confronts a Choice on Copters" read this week's New York Times . The President soon "will have to decide ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/02/22/marine-one-helicopter-scandal/ It's not a pretty time to be a digital cinema camera manufacturer. There's a crisis in the economy, film and tv production are down, reality television is supplanting dramatic content at an alarming rate. And then there are the sensor wars. In one corner, we have Panavision. Panavision probably needs ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/02/20/digital-cinema-by-a-dilettante/ A while ago I announced that I was going to move to New York, and put up a surprisingly (to me) honest assessment of what that involved, practically and emotionally. Now that I've been here for nearly 9 months, I want to start reflecting on that decision.  Needs to be done. I ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/02/15/new-york/ I'm not really a trek guy, but I can definitely see the appeal here.  Beyond the boobs, I mean. via kate klonick's twitter http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/02/14/the-nerd-in-me-approves-of-this/ Via BoingBoingGadgets comes the supposed pitch book for the new Pepsi logo.  Having worked in design firms, this all looks very familiar... This 6MB PDF that is purported to be the pitch used by design group Arnell to sell executives at Pepsi on a new logo design is perhaps the most brilliant example of puffed ... http://nurblog.nurble.com/2009/02/10/design-wankery/