Hard to tolerate a hotel that allows all its doors to loudly slam shut instead of closing softly and quietly.

My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:

At my sister’s house, we uncovered a vintage, ’70s-era Musicland bag. ✨🎶✨

Thanksgiving in the Montana suburbs: The local deer could not care less.

"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong." ~George Washington to Francis Adrian van der Kemp, May 28, 1788. Image: Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington, 1804. Public domain.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It just so happens I am typing this from Idaho, where today we drove past a sign that said “Ultra-MAGA”.

Ahhh, I watched this when it aired! It was amazing then and an unambiguous classic now. (Although it probably helps to have lived through the Reagan years.)

Morning hike around Danville/San Ramon.

Last night’s opening reception of “Piet Zwart: Brand Architect” was a great beginning for a great exhibition at @letterformarchive.org. Well worth a visit!

This was the calculator included every version of Mac OS from 1984 until the launch of Mac OS X in 2001. Steve Jobs designed it himself.

Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.

I will be there! If you’re in the area, check it out. What’s not to like?

What a goddamn legend. Every big tough conservative masculinity guy has been crying about how terrifying cities are to live in for the past two years and now Trump wants to move back to NYC

Sad to hear about Mani’s passing. I know his work best through the Stone Roses’ phenomenal debut album, where his playing is as crucial as anything to the band’s iconic sound. R.I.P. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Linear-Antiqua ad/specimen, Ludwig & Mayer, Das Plakat, 1912. (Typeface by Richard Ludwig, 1911 fontsinuse.com/typefaces/23...) Source: iaddb.org?query=search...

Me: Do you know what an “amaryllis” is? Wife: Oh! It's that animal that has scales on its back. Me: You mean an armadillo? Wife: Oops.

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

Baffled by this review on OpenTable. It’s fine if you like the restaurant regardless, but this is not 5-star service.

we need a department of kerning

Folks are always shocked to hear that, when I was a Taco Bell employee circa 1982, we cooked batches of refried beans from scratch (sacks of dried beans), sliced fresh tomatoes and lettuce, sliced black olives (from a can) and more — all right there in the back of the restaurant.

On November 11, 1993, students Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina from the University of Illinois programmed one of the first web browsers with a graphical interface – Mosaic 1.0. #WebDesignHistory

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This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it. And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE? Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

My god, such a nice morning here for the Monterey Bay Half Marathon!

Hiking today in Del Monte Forest in Pebble Beach, we came across a cluster of wild golf balls growing in their natural environment, just about ripe and ready for harvesting by the golf farmers.

"overwhelming defeat" is when you lose by a point and a half (historically narrow) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Like I needed another reason to avoid Target.

I am truly shocked to not find more thinkpieces on the incredible graphic design and typography of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign but maybe that’s because searching on the internet is garbage now. TL;DR lead designer was Aneesh Bhoopathy of Forge Co-Op Roundup of articles in thread 🧵

The deadline for Type West is extended to November 14! If you want to learn type design in a deep way without leaving your current job, there’s no better way to do it. letterformarchive.org/education/ #TypeDesign #Typography #DesignEducation #GraphicDesign

JUSTICE IS BEST SERVED LIGHTLY TOASTED

sign up and save Bay Area transit (and if you're a graphic designer, please halp)

It’s Matthew Carter’s typeface, Shelley (fontsinuse.com/typefaces/27...), but like much Word Art it’s been artificially bolded. But the White House has a Chief Calligrapher (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...), so why not have her do something proper? (Unless she’s been laid off like everyone else.)

This article is super-interesting! I know California is capable of producing really compelling wine — yet often doesn’t. Caring about the right approach and having the right land aren’t a given. [Gift link]

Zohran Mamdani has won the primary and the general election. Now the true contest begins. by Andrew Cuomo

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

It's funny how every time the Criterion Channel removes Dog Day Afternoon, it returns like a month later.

Here’s what’s Scary this Halloween: AI. But not because of it’s superbrain potential to replace and do away with us. Because of it’s extraordinary lack of talent! The Worst Writer in the World? AI The Worst Voice Over Actor in the World? AI An Ungodly Lack of natural talent. 😱

I still have my trusty Discwasher that I bought in the early ’80s. Seems to still work just fine!

Back in 2007 I started freelancing under the name Made by Elephant. Was doing some domain cleanup and was curious what the logo would look like if I did it today. Fun little Wednesday warmup exercise. (Old on the left, new on the right)

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Man, I do agree with this 100%. I'll add that we used to expect civic leaders to set examples and encourage people to be better, to educate us about what's right. Vance and co. just give permission to folks to be their worst selves.

Cleaning out the office, I ran across this charming relic from days gone by.

I don’t really use Google Drive, but I am delighted to disable this setting anyway, and I think everyone else should too.

Everyone should read this in its entirety — just 1½ pages, explicitly describing terrorism by the government.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

it was really lovely!

I got to spend a couple hours today with the family and friends of the late, great Jim Parkinson at his house in the Oakland hills. These melancholy occasions are always redeemed by the chance to reminisce and reflect on life.