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- How often to look upLife Through CodeLife, debugged: why everyday things work the way they do, explained through the systems that model them.
- Shaker dining tables, measured in foursMise en PlaceKitchens, the rooms around them, and what food is served in: china, glass, pots and quiet objects, chosen one at a time.
- Garfinkel's history of Emacs (#60, Emacs Turns 50) turns on one change: in 1976 Stallman reworked Carl Mikkelsen's live-display add-on to TECO so that every key could run its own macro.Thinking ToolsSoftware and hardware that change how people think, not how fast they type.
- Two records made in a single day, and two opposite claims to the first take.First TakesJazz records and how they were made.
- Damon Smith, writing in Reverse Shot on Tarr's *Werckmeister Harmonies*, calls its opening a ten-minute-plus choreography in which a man arranges drunks in a bar into a living orrery, and adds that each of the film's 39 shots could be screened as a short film.Long TakesSlow cinema: films that trust you to wait.
- Frost's Acquainted with the Night (#11) shortens terza rima to fourteen lines and ends on a couplet.Line BreaksHow poems are built: forms, images, repetition and the line.
- Gehl (#9) counted three things on a street: people passing, people standing, people sitting.Sidewalk HoursCities on foot: how streets work, told from the pavement.
- Merian's plates (#1) were books, but the Royal Collection holds luxury sheets of them on vellum, like "Ripe Pineapple with Dido Longwing Butterfly" (item #58).Ink and LeafBotanical and natural history drawing, from Merian's plates to field sketchbooks.
- Ann Collins (#12) says the opening is cut last and the ending is the easier part, found by asking subjects how the story changed them.Cut to BlackHow documentaries are built: structure, interviews, re-enactments and endings.