- An Introduction To Typographic Families
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In order to create a successful typeface I think it is vital to have at least a basic knowledge of the various typographic families and the characteristics that set them apart from one another.
- Henry Jame’s Testicular Injury
- A literary quest.
- Diddy’s tattoo + Bierut’s Facebook wall
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Diddy got the New York Magazine logo tattooed on his arm…
- How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets
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Netflix’s data indicated that the same subscribers who loved the original BBC production also gobbled down movies starring Kevin Spacey or directed by David Fincher. Therefore, concluded Netflix executives, a remake of the BBC drama with Spacey and Fincher attached was a no-brainer, to the point that the company committed $100 million for two 13-episode seasons.
- The Neurocritic: Fisher-Price Synesthesia
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…a new study has identified 11 synesthetes whose grapheme-color mappings appear to be based on the Fisher Price plastic letter set made between 1972-1990.
- Metafilter n-gram viewer | MetaTalk
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A clone of the Google Books N-Gram viewer, but for Metafilter.
- Ad-free social network App.net moves from Twitter clone to cloud platform | The Verge
- I’d pretty much dismissed App.net as social network for wealthy nerds, but this move opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities.
- Arch BSD
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…a lightweight and flexible BSD® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.
- Must Read
- Nominate a ‘must read’ article, along with a brief note; follow the ‘must read’ articles saved by others.
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