Meanwhile #014

Here are some things for your brain to nibble on.

1. The doughnut hole is 168 years old. So now you know.

2. Mystical maps and forgotten gold – BLDG BLOG on the legends and folklore of America's buried treasure.

3. Six reasons why big budget films end up with terrible CGI. From what I can gather, it's mostly Orlando Bloom's fault.

4. Chris Ware, illustrious chronicler of modern family life, on the story behind his latest New Yorker cover. Would love to see a collection of these published at some point.

5. The latest in big evil corporate shenanigan news: Amazon are only going to pay Kindle authors for pages that have been read. Taylor Swift has been notified.

6. Design for Guggenheim Helsinki unveiled. One day I'm going to do a world tour of all the Guggenheims. One day.

7. An epic history of the movie trailer.

8. The joy of reading roleplaying games. One of my favourite reads as a kid was the Paranoia rule book. I'm not sure I ever actually played it.

9. Longplayer is an app that lets you listen to a 1000-year-long song, a deep-time composition by ex-Pogue Jem Finer.

10. Be seeing you – on the typography of The Prisoner, i.e. lots and lots of Albertus.

That is all.