http://contactsheet.org/ graphic design, urbanism, film, media, arts en-us ss@contactsheet.org Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:16:21 -0800 http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/06/09/dollar.html A friend of my wife is visiting us from Lisbon. Because of the really, ahem, skewed exchange rate between the dollar and euro (or between the dollar and every other currency), our friend has been tagged by her other friends... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/06/04/sophia.html We've been busy the last seven weeks, so I forgot to tell you.... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/04/03/the_american_paradox.html Q: The nutrition community is fascinated by the French paradox — the fact that the French eat seemingly fattening food but don’t get fat. In your book you describe an American paradox. What is it? A: Americans are a... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2008/02/28/the_design_of_obamas_campaign.html Graphic designer Michael Bieruit was recently interviewed by Newsweek about the achievements of Obama's design: He's the first candidate, actually, who's had a coherent, top-to-bottom, 360-degree system at work. Whereas, I think it's more more common for politicians to have... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/12/17/diy_internet_radio_recording.html I listen to NPR off-and-on throughout the day. But I rarely listen to live radio -- it almost entirely comes from podcasts that I download with iTunes. I want to listen to what I want, when I want, and be... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/12/13/no_leopard_for_me.html I was planning on upgrading my Macbook to Leopard in the next month or two with the assumption that all of my essential applications would run fine. I mean, with the Universal PR that Apple has put out over the... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/11/08/the_only_article_you_need_to_read_about_the_writers_strike.html ...is that by the Fake Steve Jobs. It's either sad or funny, I can't decide. The overpaid spoiled morons who write all the shit that gets blasted out onto the TV networks want even more money for their piles of... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/11/01/fullpage_screenshots.html A side project I've been working on the last couple of weeks is finally finished: superscreenshot.com. As the name implies, the site will produce a screenshot of any URL you send it -- a full-page screenshot -- not just... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/09/07/the_devils_choice.html This is one of the few times that I actually choose a Microsoft product over the competition -- that is, when the competition is Real.... http://contactsheet.org/articles/2007/07/31/water.html There have been a flurry of media stories on American's rising consumption of bottled water. You now see people toting bottles of water everywhere, as if the country underwent a serious thirst over the last few years. But the stories...