U.S.: Redesign Of Vladimir Nabokov's Book Covers
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
At Design Observer, John Gall writes about the redesign of Vladimir Nabokov's book covers: “All twenty-one of them.” (Link via Maud Newton.)
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Lawyer: Accused Fort Hood gunman may be paralyzed
The Eagle Texas and Region (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
FORT HOOD, Texas -- The Army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralyzed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday.Civilian attorney John Gall ...
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Not Everyone Loves the New Nabokov Editions
The Book Design Review (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Lots of folks are talking about the John Gall-curated Nabokov redesigns . And well they should -- it's not often that we see an author's entire body of work redesigned by such an impressive cadre of designers. Three days before Gall posted the series at Design Observer , though, a BDR reader wrote in about the "best Nabokov cover I've ever seen--blows the sh**ty Vintage/Random House motif out...
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New Work: ‘Speak, Memory’
New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Michael Bierut designs one in John Gall's series of new Nabokov covers.
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Nabokov Book Covers
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Over at Design Observer, John Gall has shared this cool project of redesigned Nabokov book covers, which he created by taking photographs of specimen boxes. The boxes were assembled by a variety of designers, whom he names in the post. Have a click over. (via @parisreview)
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Transit Maps Meet Book Covers
The Book Design Review (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Green Metropolis design credit to come Underground designed by John Gall and Jamie Keenan I'm a chump for transit map-related designs. I know there are tons more. Do you have a favorite? Send it in (thebookdesignreview@yahoo.com) or leave a URL in the comments and I'll post it.
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Lance Berkman lands on the DL; Where do the Astros go from here?
The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
More photos » by Pat Sullivan - AP See ya in a fortnight, Big Puma. Browse more photos » First of all, thanks to Joe and Timmy for breaking this story. This is not the kind of news you want to hear heading into another tremendously important week-one that sees the Astros head on a two series road trip against both the Cubs and the Cards. Richard Justice's take on the situation can be found...
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Peddling ...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 06/21/2009
As most regulars readers know, I try to keep my book peddling divorced (aside from posting an occasional fan letter that's relevant) from this site so as not to take away from what we do here at the Brain. That said, a lot of people have been bugging me to set up a page to make picking up a copy (or two ... or three ... heh ...) easier (even got an earful about it from John Gall this past week). So...
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How I spent my afternoon ...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
I had the distinct honor and privilege to meet up with regular reader and commenter John Gall, his lovely wife Delaine, and his college buddy Bob at a local seafood place the Mrs.* and I used to frequent when we were dating. John and his wife were in from Iowa, visiting Bob (who lives about 4 hours north of the Island) and made the trip down so Delaine could finally see the ocean (seems John made a...
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Learn the Principle Of Systemantics
best4poker.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." This saying is written by John Gall on his book, Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail.
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Bumbling Bees drop one in Texas
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/26/2009
Two Salt Lake errors led to three unearned runs, as the host Round Rock Express downed the Bees 4-2 on Monday night in Round Rock, Texas. Salt Lake led 1-0 in the third and Round Rock had runners at first and second with no outs when John Gall hit a would-be double play ball that went through
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Google Adsense Best Practices
WebDev (Free subscription) | 04/15/2009
Google Adsense Best Practices by: John Gall When selecting the size of your Google Adsense code the 300×250 is by far the best performer. This square box works best when placed in the middle of the content towards the top. I commonly place the 300×250 ad block under my title and on top of my [...]
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Gall's Law
Suitably vague (Free subscription) | 04/02/2009
Amen to this. Gall's Law (after author, John Gall ) states: "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." Taken from his book The Systems Bible (alos...
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Astros vs. Pirates, Sunday spring game
The Crawfish Boxes (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
Lineup: CF Michael Bourn LF Yordany Ramirez RF Hunter Pence DH Aaron Boone 2B David Newhan 3B Chris Johnson 1B John Gall SS Drew Sutton C Lou Palmisano Boxscore: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_03_08_houmlb_pitmlb_1 At the end of 4, the Pirates lead 3-2. Backe pitched 2 good scoreless innings. But Hensley gave up 3 runs in 2 innings of work. Yordany Ramirez and Palmisano with doubles....