They call them fingers but I never see ’em fing
sextet of dope Simpsons scenes [via Russell B]
So last night I was jaded having had one too many Gamay Noirs after work (it was a good day at work, I finally made a cover for a book I’ve been stalling on for eversolong, we had a class trip to Satay Kampong (recommended) and then to PARAMOVNT for Helvetica. Great film, could have been edited down a bit, was a fun way into thinking about modernism and reactions to it. Made me think about how the big temptation for design is to be about what it is always about: surfaces, surfaces, beautiful lies – but what we are all hanging out for is the truth. Helvetica caught a wave because it pretends to be neutral, an empty vessel, timeless, no history, no attachments; and we all want to forget our pasts.), so though I’d said I’d go to town with Kathy & co., I was very much not in the mood for that. But in this shifty-sand world every kept promise is a good brick, so we went out, found the French man at Hope Bros and it was all go, we were up for it clubbers, I bumped into old friends and we made some new ones, and it was all very good.
Best graph ever, from the Pew Global Attitudes Survey [2.5MB PDF, via D the Great]. It appears the Latinos are doing something right:
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you are great
thanks mate!
Matt, please make that graph meaningful to me by telling me where NZ fits in.
No idea. Though I’m in Western Europe, more or less.
We’re near Spain in per capita GDP. Who knows whether we think we’re happy.
Based on http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10426910 if you can compare the disparate data, we indicated around 90% overall satisfaction which would indicate more happiness than our level of income might indicate (18th out of 178 countries in survey). So maybe shift Mexico over to about $26,000 per capita GDP, move it up a little and say it’s somewhere around there…