Nirvana + MGMT mashup

by Luke Rodgers on July 18, 2010

Smells like Kids, from artist Ben Kling.

Testing your websites on Android phones

by Luke Rodgers on July 17, 2010

Been reading up on web development/design for mobile devices recently, and came across some helpful instructions on testing websites on Google Android. Turns out it’s pretty easy, but I thought I’d write up these instructions for OSX since the steps seem to have changed a bit since the above article was written. Read the rest of this entry »

Two interesting fonts

by Luke Rodgers on July 8, 2010

Typography is somewhere between a passing interest and a form of professional dilettantism. I like the Myfonts newsletter, the most recent edition of which highlights a couple particularly outstanding fonts. Read the rest of this entry »

Updated RSS feeds

by Luke Rodgers on July 5, 2010

I’d been using Google reader pretty heavily for a few years, then abandoned it pretty heavily since I began school last fall. Now that I’m getting back to it, I’ve culled my list pretty ruthlessly. Here are (most) of the ones I kept:

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My favourite painting at the MOMA

by Luke Rodgers on June 1, 2010

I’ve been to a lot of New York art museums recently, with friends visiting. Quite liked the Marina Abramovic exhibition, which wrapped up at the MOMA on May 31. My favourite painting at the MOMA, I think, is Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World.

Marxist or Marxian

by Luke Rodgers on May 1, 2010

Can someone tell me what the difference is between being a Marxist vs. being a Marxian, or whether there even is a difference? For a long time, I assumed there was no difference, and no distinction was needed. But the more Marx I read, the more value I see in having terminology to differentiate positions that areĀ  “actually” Marx’s (i.e. for which there is relatively agreed-upon textual evidence) from those to which “Marxists” subsequently adhered, or promulgated.

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Me on my buddy’s blog

by Luke Rodgers on April 29, 2010

My friend and former roommate Wythe has a great blog (Chronolect) that is a reliable source of insight and wit. We were emailing back and forth about a TED video recently, and he posted some of my thoughts on his blog, in case you’re interested.

The sun shines to-day also

by Luke Rodgers on April 23, 2010

Read Emerson’s 1836 essay Nature online. link