727-727 vs 727- (Found July 19, 2008 ) A curious postscript to the post below: both the NYT and Slate have slide shows about the Murakami show. Both of them talk about 727-727, and attempt to illustrate it, on slide 10 of the NYT slideshow, and slide 8 of the Slate sideshow. And both of them use an illustration of a different painting, 727, rather than 727-727. Both paintings are on show in Brooklyn right now, but they are definitely distinct: 727-727 is more expressive and painterly. It's not that hard to tell them apart, you'd...http://www.felixsalmon.com/000883.html Poder Column- (Found July 19, 2008 ) I've started writing a monthly column on art collecting for Poder, a magazine in Miami. Here are the first four. I love the art direction on them, it makes a refreshing change from the blog format. The Lion's Share: A Man with a Plan: Can You See What he Said When a Balloon Looks Like a Bubble:http://www.felixsalmon.com/000884.html How to stop websites from resizing your browser window in Firefox- (Found July 19, 2008 ) I wish I'd known this years ago... Point your brower to about:config. Where it says "Filter" at the top, type in "resize". Or just scroll down to "dom.disable_window_move_resize". It probably says "false". Right-click on it, and select "toggle". Now it says "true". You're done! This is for OS X, but I'm pretty sure it's almost identical in Windows and Linux. No more seeing your carefully-constructed desktop hijacked by evil websites insisting that you view their content in a full screen!...http://www.felixsalmon.com/000885.html RSS update- (Found July 19, 2008 ) Lots of problems with the felixsalmon.com RSS feeds right now. To be sure of getting all of my Market Movers posts, Portfolio's RSS feed for them is http:feeds.portfolio.comportfoliomarketmoversformat=xml. It doesn't include any felixsalmon.com content, but given the frequency of posting here of late, that won't make a lot of difference.http://www.felixsalmon.com/000886.html O-ba-ma!- (Found July 19, 2008 ) I watched the New Hampshire debates last night, the first debates I've watched this election season. (I would have watched more, I'm sure, but for the fact that I don't have a television.) And after watching first the Republicans and then the Democrats, I'm increasingly convinced that Barack Obama not only should be the next president of the United States, but that he will be. For me, the low point of the evening came when Hillary Clinton, asked to compare herself with Obama, instead...http://www.felixsalmon.com/000873.html |