Tag: typography
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My delicious.com bookmarks for November 8th through November 10th
Nov. 10, 1999: Metric Math Mistake Muffed Mars Meteorology Mission – Sometimes the simplest of mistakes have the most dramatic consequences. Linotype: The Film – The revolution in printing before DTP… soon in documentary form.
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My delicious.com bookmarks for August 5th through August 11th
The origins of abc – "We will begin where civilisation began, meander through the Middle Ages, race through the Renaissance, and in doing so discover where our alphabet originated, how and why it evolved, and why, for example, an A looks, well, like an A." Icelander’s Campaign Is a Joke, Until He’s Elected – This…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for January 11th through January 13th
Priori Acute – What if M.C. Escher had been a typographer? What "Nothing to Hide" is Hiding – Why "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" is a bad argument in favour of increased surveillance.
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My delicious.com bookmarks for December 9th through December 21st
exactly – "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" Looks like we're not going to find out because of a few hold-outs… A Typeface for the Underground – Design and typography on the London Underground. Fascinating stuff. Britain to Levy a One-Time Tax on Banker Bonuses – "To…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for March 2nd through March 10th
These are my links for March 2nd through March 10th: The Numbers Post (aka Brutal Honesty) – "I hope that this article might serve as a counter-point to the articles that seem to go around the web about devs making hundreds of thousands of dollars off an iPhone app. Everyone within the dev community understands…
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My delicious.com bookmarks for February 7th through February 9th
These are my links for February 7th through February 9th: The League of Moveable Type – Most free or open source fonts I've seen have been pretty poor but these guys seem to have the right idea. Government plans travel database – "When your travel plans, who you are travelling with, where you are going…