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My sister and I grew up in an extended, old European family where togetherness was a central component of existence. We spent most summers with… Read More »
Episode No. 47 - featuring music by Latche Swing.


In what is now a SXSWi tradition, SMITH’s Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser took to the streets (oh fine, to the open bar) to document the oldest form of personal expression since cave painting, the witty T-shirt.
Know these nerds? Recognize your chest? Name ‘em, claim ‘em, tag them on Facebook, fave them on Flickr. And should you doubt the staying power of this series, Google image search nerdy girl—the one who isn’t naked is ours.
Quick links:
This year’s photos on Flickr.
This year’s photos on Facebook.
From the archives: our first geek tee photo essay.
Episode No. 46 - featuring music by The Yummy Fur.
It’s no secret that in the world of SMITH we’re a fan of the short form, with six being the magic number. But what’s the problem with four more words? There isn’t one according to Ten Word Wiki.
Like the go-to information cultivation of the full-fledged Wikipedia.org, Ten Word Wiki’s mission is the same: to provide its visitors with answers for all those random questions you may have or for the last-minute help you always need on your papers and essays. The only difference is that Ten Word Wiki’s entries are only (you guessed it…) ten words long. (more…)
As I decompress from a tech conference—a dizzying few days of true Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, blogging overload that I absolutely loved—I am especially looking forward to unplugging this weekend as a part of the “Sabbath Manifesto” (tagline: “Slowing down lives since 2010″). Sabbath Manifesto is sort of a “secular Sabbath,” a national day of unplugging from sundown, Friday, 3/19 to sundown, Saturday, 3/20. I don’t know a single person who couldn’t use a little unplugging in their life (with the possible exception of my dad who refuses to use a computer, and indeed may be the last person in America with a dictaphone), so I hope you’ll get on this bus and take a breather from the screens that suck up so much of our mental and physical energy.
Here are two short videos about this idea of why a “secular Sabbath” is both hard to achieve and so valuable for our sanity. The first one is from the organizers of the Sabbath Manifesto. The second is from filmmaker and Six-Word Memoirist Tiffany Shlain, who pays tribute to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” with her take on chilling out, Yelp.
Episode No. 44 - featuring music by Delta Dreambox.
Episode No. 43 - featuring music by Jack and the Pulpit.
Episode No. 42 - featuring music by The Yummy Fur.