22/04/2009 @ 23:01 GMT
Cameron Moll : Beautiful new design over at Typographica.org - Beautiful new design over at Typographica.org. In it you'll find a review of Calgary Script by yours truly. (And what's this? A design beyond 960?)
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jonhicks : TELSTAR THE MOVIE - The Story of Joe Meek - looking forward to this!
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jonhicks : Typographica Favorite Typefaces of 2008
Andy Baio : Typographica's Favorite Typefaces of 2008 - Stag Dot is a gorgeous alternative to pixel fonts [via]
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Andy Baio : 241543903, photos of people putting their head in a freezer - inexplicable, until you read this note from David Horvitz [via]
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Andy Baio : PhD Comics on the cure for cancer - related: The Bride Was Beautiful [via]
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Andy Baio : Last Year's Model - "saving the planet through sheer laziness"
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Andy Baio : Maureen Dowd's ridiculous interview with Twitter's founders - they were funny and graceful under idiocy
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nelson : Nokia 1100 hacks - The underground is willing to pay a lot of money for a specific model of cell phone, apparently because it can be hacked. In related news: the cell phone network is insecure.
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Andy Baio : YouCube, make an interactive cube from YouTube videos - for example, try Oo De Lally, David After Dentist or Douche Cubed
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Anil : Sticking with Last Year's Model - I am lucky — I get to talk to some of the smartest geeks in the world, and to learn from their example about cutting-edge technologies. One of the most interesting things I've seen is that, while so much of the talk in tech circles is about the late
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Douglas Bowman : Tal Leming on Web Fonts - Seemingly reasonable middle-ground suggestions here that would allow web typography to move forward, allow people to use all the free fonts they want, yet continue to allow type designers to earn a living. -archive link-
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Douglas Bowman : In Defense of Eye Candy - Stephen Anderson: The more we learn about people, and how our brains process information, the more we learn the truth of that phrase: form and function aren’t separate items. If we believe that style somehow exists independent of functionality, that we
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22/04/2009 @ 20:00 GMT
philgyford : London Underground Tube Diary - Going Underground's Blog - Inside those tube carriages you can see on top of a viaduct in Shoreditch. Shame the video's no longer available. (via Blech)
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philgyford : Frinton-on-Sea's historic railway gates removed 'under cover of darkness' by Network Rail | UK news | guardian.co.uk - Yes, it's a bit quaint to want to hang on to this stuff. But it's also a shame objects and practices important to a place and its inhabitants get ditched in favour of efficiency and money.
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philgyford : LISPA - School - Information - Film - LISPA has a new website and a promotional film. The pictures at the top are people from my year, the film features people from the year above. Very strange, and lovely, to see and hear all this stuff again.
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Cameron Moll : Flickr: The Modern - Flickr: The Modern. Impressive, even more so coming from iPhone's camera.
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Cameron Moll : Slammer for OS X: Grids on top of anything - Slammer for OS X is a simple way to lay a grid over anything on your screen. Via theAppleBlog. [via]
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Cameron Moll : The Typographic Desk Reference - The Typographic Desk Reference. This looks like a fantastic reference. Hadn’t even heard of it before. "From the outset it’s worth stressing that this is not a how-to book. It does not compete with Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style or F
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Cameron Moll : Three inspiring product design concept - Three inspiring product design concepts: Abisko Washbasin by Eumar, Aquavolo waterfall/rainfall shower, and Annotation Bookshelf by Lau Design.
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Cameron Moll : Jill Sylvia creates art with ledger paper - Jill Sylvia creates art with ledger paper. Fascinating. [via]
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Cameron Moll : The Ora ilLegale clock tips to compensate for daylight savings time - The Ora ilLegale clock tips to compensate for daylight savings time. Brilliant.
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joshua : Discovery Is The New Cocaine - Going Beyond Engagement
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nelson : Ebert on Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - The film is more complicated than you'd think
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Simon Willison : And Now For Something Entire... Oooh! Shiny! - And Now For Something Entire... Oooh! Shiny!. Alex Russell on O3D, the new 3D browser plugin from Google that makes OpenGL accessible to JavaScript (and embeds V8 so performance won’t suck even on slower browsers).
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Simon Willison : Finding and fixing memory leaks in Python - Finding and fixing memory leaks in Python. Using Dozer, a clever piece of WSGI middleware which displays sparklines of Python object counts and allows you to introspect them, using the gc module under the hood.
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Milo Vermeulen : crackunit.com - Earning Eternal Respect In 48 Hours The Twitter Way
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jonhicks : Combining Cufón and @font-face • CSS & (X)HTML • Kilian Valkhof
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wearehugh : Microdata Problem Descriptions - WHATWG Wiki - hixie's raw notes on microdata (i.e. rdfa, microformats, and similar techniques). will be very interesting to see how this develops.
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22/04/2009 @ 06:00 GMT
jcgregorio : Straight out of science fiction « High Energy Mayhem - Neat
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nelson : PC Decrapifier - Software to delete software you don't want from mass market PCs
joshua : The PC Decrapifier - removes various crap pre-installed on storebought computers
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jcgregorio : American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse - Fascinating story about a monument in Georgia.
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Andy Baio : McSweeney's "Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era" - with slight modifications, I think this class would be a massive hit [via]
Cameron Moll : ENG 371WR: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era - ENG 371WR: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era. "Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets come alive with shallow wit. They'll learn how to construct Facebook status updates that glitter with irony, absurdity, and dramatic glibn
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