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imageobjecttext: “Unfortunately, these concepts are ill prepared for the fluid media objects of our real-time era. Such analysis will by default favor visual representations (because this is what these schilars with their film, television, or art history backgrounds are trained to analyze) but neglect social and interactive dynamics. Do we truly expect to find exciting…
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Screen-optimized fonts “look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro.”
cameronmoll: John Gruber: Fonts optimized for screen rendering look cheap on the retina MacBook Pro — sometimes downright cheesy — in the same way they do when printed in a glossy magazine. Great fonts, intricately designed for high-resolution output, aren’t just allowed, they are necessary for a design that truly sings on this display. In…
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I hope to be this natty when I make full professor. I began riding my bike to work last week, five miles out, five back.
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Introducing open-source, project based mentorship
alexkehayias: Spoiler: Project based mentorship is the future. I built http://mentorship.p2pu.org to connect people who want to learn (to code, design, whatever) or mentor by working on really cool projects. A Promise I’m a self-taught coder and I’m proud of it. I now make a living doing what I love: building cool shit. I would…
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electrikmuse: Frontage Typeface by Juri Zaech Frontage is a charming layered type system with endless design possibilities using different combinations of fonts and colors. Achieve a realistic 3D effect by adding the shadow font or just use the capital letters of the regular and bold cut for stark artwork. You can download Frontage Outline for…
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nevver: The Nietzsche Family Circus
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The Drought In The West: Here To Stay, So Time To Move
underpaidgenius: The 2000-2004 drought in the US West was apparently the most sever drought of the past 800 years. But don’t think that means we are headed into a wet period: Christopher Schwalm, Christopher Williams, and Kevin Schaefer, Extreme Weather and Drought Are Here to Stay Future precipitation trends, based on climate model projections for…
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wanting it both ways: “Hundreds of thousands of young girls are reading this and using it as…
wanting it both ways: “Hundreds of thousands of young girls are reading this and using it as… “Hundreds of thousands of young girls are reading this and using it as the basis for what they see as cool,” Ms. Coates told the Journal. “She’s the biggest columnist at Vice right now and she’s helpless, addicted,…
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I can tell you from experience that A Beka (and Bob Jones University Press) are stridently against modernism in all its forms. (I’m assuming they’re against post-modernism, too, but you have to understand that the opinions and perspectives this sort of Christian fundamentalism has about society and culture were formed between the late 1920s and…
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Do fonts affect people’s opinions?
jkottke: You may remember a short piece by Errol Morris in the Times a few weeks ago that was more of a quiz than a essay. Well, the quiz turned out to be a smokescreen for how people’s opinions change when the text is set in different typefaces. Each Times participant read the passage in…