This is just flat out amazing. There are many more here at Apartment Therapy.

Via Boing Boing:

Based on Dr. Seuss’s final book before his death, this is a story about life’s ups and downs, told by the people of Burning Man 2011. Combining the stunning visuals of Burning Man and its population with the haunting, silly, thought provoking words of Dr. Seuss.

[Found via Think Geek]

[Found via CreativeFan]

Can’t wait to read Dan Gilmore’s most recent work. A quick review via Boing Boing:

Mediactive is divided into three sections. The first section is a history of the dismal state of current media—partisan and bickering, financially troubled, insufficiently critical of power and overly sensitive to Internet upstarts. Gillmor explains how reporters can (and sometimes do) use online media to get their stories straight, and in so doing, explains how you can do the same, and become a smarter consumer of, participant in, and maker of news. This is a crash-course in being a better consumer of the news, asking active questions about how the news you see and hear and read is constructed.

Part two is an information age journalism program encapsulated in a swiftly moving section on using tools and systems to make better news. Even if you’re not planning on starting up your own blog, wiki, mailing list, or even a newspaper, this section should be required reading for anyone hoping to understand how smart use of the right tool can put the news in the service to its community, structured around the values of truth, humility, and honor.

Part three is a big-think piece on the way that institutions—from j-schools to the FTC and Congress—can and should change the way they do things to clear the way for journalism that works with the net, not against it. Covering issues from pedagogy to DRM law, from comment moderation to Network Neutrality, Gillmor moves into the macro-scale with the same deftness that he brings to the details in part two.

Mediactive is available as a free, Creative Commons-licensed download. As you might expect, Gillmor’s Mediactive site dedicated to the book contains many other resources and a robust conversation on the book and topics it addresses.

Well surprise, surprise., maybe not so much. It is turning out that as folks have time to do a little fact checking, instead of being a first person account of Bush’s presidency, major chunks of the book comes almost word for word from third party news stories and even other books about Bush that have already been published for years. Grim notes:

Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial “decision points” of his presidency, the clip jobs illuminate something shallower and less surprising about Bush’s character: He’s too lazy to write his own memoir.

So how does his publisher respond to Bush lifting material from others?

A Crown official rejected the suggestion that Bush had done anything inappropriate, suggesting that the similarities speak to its inherent accuracy.

Wow, that is some world class spin. But maybe the best of all:

In a final irony, Bush appears to draw heavily from several of Bob Woodward’s books and also from Robert Draper’s “Dead Certain”. The Bush White House called the books’ accuracy into question when they were initially published.

I tell you want, the wonders of Bush will never cease to amaze me.

You should really get a copy of what appears to be a stunning book on Typography by Fontshop. I mean it is free to download (direct link to a PDF).