spent 10 minutes sketching some helvetica letterforms using my new stylus on the ipad. max miedinger, i salute you for the masterpiece that is the helvetica lowercase “a.”
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How does that thing go again, TurboTax? The one about “are you fucking kidding me with this shit?” Wait, now I remember: Are you fucking kidding me with this shit.
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"Horizontalism and Readability" →
Frank Chimero has an interesting piece questioning vertically scrolling windows as the primary presentation method for long blocks of text on computers. Coincides nicely with my experience with the New York Times iPad app, which seems to offer a better reading experience than the website (which is a better reading experience than almost every other news website).
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tasty nikes (x parra). love the blues and the reds.
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A pox on Mountain View: it is now the destination of choice for writers seeking to pad books with sci-fi visuals and newish-sounding but already conventional wisdom
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It’s some place where, toward the end of someone’s life, when they’re feeling a total sense of despondency, they want to return to a place of natural beauty … for their final moments
— Patrick Suddath, Chief of Ranger Operations of Glacier National Park. From this great Associated Press article about people committing suicide in national parks. It’s sort of ridiculous why the AP is writing about this, but hey, I’m not one to judge journalists.
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(Quoted from the Atlantic) “Promiscuity, on the other hand, demands a certain amount of nerve. It might be misdirected nerve, or neurotic nerve, or a nerve born of defiance or ignorance or of an intellectual disregard of social mores, but that’s what it takes.
— From the Atlantic, November 1957, in a piece entitled “Sex and the College Girl” by Nora Johnson.
