Stay tuned for Jobs⁏ crack at the very end. It’s cheeky.

David Leonhardt writes: “The problem with Mr. Dobbs is that he mixes opinion and untruths. He is the heir to the nativist tradition that has long used fiction and conspiracy theories as a weapon against the Irish, the Italians, the Chinese, the Jews and, now, the Mexicans.”

“Wiimbledon is Brooklyn’s first — nay, the world’s first! — Wii tennis tournament.”

James Surowiecki’s excellent, taut summary of “feature creep” in product development. Obvious to interaction designers, but invaluable when discussed in mainstream publications like this. “In part, feature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell products are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what’s best for consumers.”

Michael Bierut on his first book, “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”: “I’ve found that writing is a way to slow things down again, to question my own premises, to force myself to pay attention to things I might otherwise file away after the quick glance.”

“This is an online survey to research the existing public symbols and pictogram standards.” See the results here.

Time Magazine film critic Richard Schickel argues in this editorial that “Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or any other cultural object). It is work that requires disciplined taste, historical and theoretical knowledge and a fairly deep sense of the author’s (or filmmaker’s or painter’s) entire body of work, among other qualities.”

“I’ll be founding a Web startup, EveryBlock, that focuses on making local news and information useful.” Thanks David for the tip.