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A running list of loves, hates, recommendations, and everything in between. A digital commonplace book for ideas worth saving.

LOVES.

The smell of old books.

A placeholder image representing a beautifully designed object.
The specific texture of a well-worn book cover.

Perfectly aligned design elements.

Finding a typo in a classic novel.

Long, uninterrupted train rides.

HATES.

Design by committee.

Websites that hijack the scroll bar.

The font "Comic Sans".

Low-quality JPEG artifacts.

Unskippable video ads.

QUIRKS.

Arranging books by color, not author.

Using keyboard shortcuts for everything.

Having exactly three tabs open at all times.

Saving files as "final_final_v2.psd".

Preferring the command line for simple tasks.

RECS.

Five Films Under 90 Minutes

  1. Primer (77 min)
  2. Before Sunset (80 min)
  3. Phone Booth (81 min)
  4. Run Lola Run (81 min)
  5. District 9 (82 min)

A Video Worth Watching