Andy Baio launches a platform for creating your own text-based adventures.

This page presents a scientific paper that has been redesigned as a sequence of illustrations with captions. This comic-like format, with tightly-coupled pictures and prose, allows the author to depict and describe simultaneously — show and tell.

From @worrydream.

On the difference between creation and curation. To read again and consider.

I believe there is value in curation to the level that the curator himself brings to the topic and the purpose to which it is curated. This is why museums are fine (in the sense of fine art) and reblogging useless.

Ira Glass on how to become a great storyteller.

A collection of idioms reduced to three basic nouns. Thoughtfully designed by Nikki Farquharson.

Sweet example of great copy.