The New York Observer on the rise of unpaid labour:

The upshot is this: When interns work for nothing, as Frederick first pointed out, they lower the value of everyone else’s work. In publishing, for instance, it’s not uncommon for editorial assistants to earn less than $30,000 a year, for aspiring writers to blog for the mere satisfaction of seeing their bylines, and for more seasoned journalists to write long book reviews for a few hundred dollars

If you have enough talent to be an intern, you have enough talent to get paid.

Never work for free.

Also, see this.

Via Archinect.

99% Invisible, well produced short podcasts covering a wide range of design topics.

Roman Mars is the Ira Glass of short design podcasts.

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A very well designed note taking app with Dropbox sync for iOS.

Notesy.

Thomas J. Campanella for The Design Observer:

But the same community activism has at times devolved into NIMBYism, causing several infill projects to be halted and helping drive development to greenfield sites. (Cows are slow to organize.) It’s made the local homeless shelter homeless itself, almost ended a Habitat for Humanity complex in Chapel Hill, and generated opposition to a much-needed transit-oriented development in the county seat of Hillsborough (more on this in a moment). And for what it’s worth, the shrillest opposition came not from rednecks or Tea Party activists but from highly educated “creative class” progressives who effectively weaponized Jane Jacobs to oppose anything they perceived as threatening the status quo — including projects that would reduce our carbon footprint, create more affordable housing and shelter the homeless. NIMBYism, it turns out, is the snake in the grassroots.

“Weaponized Jane Jacobs.”

Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning.

I love the art for Mother Courage & Her Children (above).

More covers at but does it float.

"The world would be such a better place if the brightest people on the planet would stop making the things that the dumbest people on the planet wanted them to make".

Robert J. Sawyer, Humanity 2.0 lecture for TVO's Big Ideas. On location.