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Books have been, and will continue to be for some time, a physical maker of one’s curiosity and intelligence. Want to look worldly and cultured? Store your stash of tomes in style. A proper bookshelf is a healthlibr.com great way to add a shot of sophistication to your place. Especially in the pockets of space in between the stacks of books. But how do you make your bookcase look as sharp as one expertly styled by an interior designer? Simple. Borrow moves from their professional playbooks to nail that perfectly relaxed but still polished vibe.

Some lovely ideas here. Going to plan to add some of this to my own library.

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Itsycal is a tiny [keyboard controlled] calendar for your Mac’s menu bar.

If you want, it will display your calendar events as a companion to the Mac Calendar app. You can also create and delete (but not edit) events.

Looks useful.

Some great ideas from Dave here. Certainly a few I had not considered.

Torres’s security detail is unique not just in the prominence of its beat — a major American city’s most-visited neighborhood — but also in the fact that it was conceptualized and financed by a single individual, with government support. Staffed by off-duty N.O.P.D. officers in vehicles that bear the N.O.P.D.’s star-and-crescent logo, the force became part of a larger initiative for public-private policing that Mitch Landrieu, the city’s mayor since 2010, had been working to put in place since the shooting on Bourbon Street last summer.

A lot of talk is happening around where and how many of these public/private police partnerships go wrong, this is one example of where it more or less works. Far from perfect, but I can tell you that I’ve never felt safer in the Quarter than the last couple of years in a row I’ve visited. A night/day kind of difference.

For me, a blog post is just the culmination of something I’ve been thinking about or a story I’ve told in person a dozen times.

This is pretty much how it works for me too. Which is why the posts on my personal site tend to be infrequent but thoughtful.

A lot of what we say is controlled by large corporations, or by small ones that will be owned by large corporations. There isn’t much interest, among the owners of Medium, for example, in owning something small and boutique-y 20 years from now. Either it will be huge, or it will be gone. And they may well have pivoted a dozen times before arriving at their eventual success. It’s quite possible that the stories you write today will not be part of that future. Or worse.

A sobering thought but one which I very much agree with. It is the main reason why anything I’ve written of importance to me lives either on a domain and or server space I own or in a physical object in my possession.

Want to know why the Minimal Mac book exists? Because, one day, Tumblr will not.

If you’ve got an older iPad around and have been wondering about its usefulness, let me point out these great ways to keep it useful and in service.

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For what it’s worth, my little girl uses my original iPad (Gen 1, 64GB) daily for games and movies/shows. Perfect device for her.

A film about place and memory, a farmhouse in Japan, and the lives of the people who called it home.

Lovely. I may have cried a bit.

The last few years has seen a resurgence of clothes and accessories that resist the impulse of fast fashion. Garments that are sustainable because they won’t go into a landfill anytime soon: they are easily repaired, made out of quality materials, and designed to never go out of style. That’s a concept we can get behind.

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