vanityfair:

Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak, age 83, as profiled for us by Dave Eggers.

We love this arresting, Grimm’s-colorplate of a portrait, don’t you?

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

nypl:

He’s not only our new NYPL President - he’s also a patron! Former Inwood Library user Anthony Marx starts today as President of The New York Public Library after a successful career as President of Amherst College in Massachusetts. Marx, a New York native who graduated from P.S. 98 and The Bronx High School of Science, is eager to lead the Library — “one of a very few institutions that unite the world of advanced scholarship and the world of universal education.” We welcome him!

nprfreshair:

Music for your Monday: As LCD Soundsystem heads into retirement — its last show takes place Saturday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden — The Current pays homage to a band that helped define the sound of new music. With artists name-checked directly in “Losing My Edge,” they created a music stream that pays tribute to where LCD Soundsystem came from and where the band was first inspired. 

Also: James Murphy, The Fresh Air Interview

washingtonpoststyle:

The is the U.S. customs form for the astronauts of Apollo 11.

Note the “departure from” and “cargo” fields.

Via Letters of Note

cheatsheet:

Tumblr, here’s your representative at the royal wedding!

[AP Photo/Matt Dunham]

soundcloud:

SoundCloud Spotted is new weekly roundup of the most interesting uses of SoundCloud out on the interwebz. Here you can find all you’ll ever need to know about super cool apps, SoundCloud exclusives and new and exciting SoundClouders!

We launched Takes Questions a while back - our…

thedailyfeed:

Dear Daily readers,

Thank you for all the feedback. We hear you and we are committed to making The Daily the best possible experience. That’s our entire focus.

In five short months we’ve brought The Daily from vision to version 1.0, created a custom content management system, built a…

latimes:

Stephen Ceasar reports, “As the sun sets in the west on Saturday, the biggest, brightest moon in about 20 years will be begin peeking over the Eastern horizon. The so-called ‘supermoon’ will appear about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than normal, according to NASA.” Incoming rain clouds might obscure the view in Los Angeles on Saturday night, so to all would-be moongazers and photographers — road trip? Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll even see a supermoonbow.

Photo credit: Hyungwon Kang / Reuters

decodering:

Free UI Kits

FreeUIKits.com is a resource dedicated to providing free UI and GUI PSD files for download.

robertreich:

Whatever shred of doubt you may have harbored about the determination of congressional Republicans to keep the economy in the dumps through Election Day should now be gone.

Today, in advance of a key meeting of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee to decide what to do about the…