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“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.” · GARRISON KEILLOR

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  • West of England Design Forum 🇬🇧 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 12:00
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Zinkraft John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Massimo Vignelli was canonically adamant that a contemporary designer only requires a handful of typefaces and should “trash the rest.” He was talking abo…

    Yesterday · 21:25
  • The video rental store as “third place” . “Decades... Jason Kottke

    The video rental store as “third place”. “Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making…

    Yesterday · 15:58
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    • The End of Google Search . The internet giant is...
    • Media Matters : “ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a...
    • Fun little review by Marcin Wichary of a 1984 flying...
    • I love this little video of burbling pasta sauces...
    • I’d Be Lead Harpooner on the Pequod If It Wasn’t for...
    • 25 things that explain America , including personal...
    • How Does an Enigma Machine Work?
    • How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood ....
    • This guy hooked his hamster’s wheel up to Strava —...
    • Astronomers have measured the size of the largest galaxy...
    • “ In this video , I’ll take you from farm to...
    • The Computer That Helped Win World War II . “…it...
    • How to Store Ebooks in Instagram Reels and Other Covert Data Storage Tricks
    • Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the...
    • Heading On Out…
    • This is an old list but still interesting: the 12 most...
    • Tressie McMillan Cottom’s reading list for fighting back...
    • Emily Wilson takes another crack at a critique of...
    • Surfing Alaska’s Turnagain Arm (home to a twice-daily...
    • In recent years, science has been learning more and more...
    • Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of...
    • Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?
    • “ poetry camera is a new way to see your world....
    • The Phone in Your Hand . “A layer-by-layer teardown of...
    • An 8K Cinematic Tribute to the Artemis II Mission
    • The Past Catalog Archive is a throwback to fun & modest...
    • Reading Maps : Journeys from books & films (Moby-Dick,...
    • Work vs gym: a simple way to decide whether to use AI...
    • “Long live Hyrule jazz!” The Z Suites is “a...
    • How Podcasts Ruined America . This is an odd claim and...
    • Pilcrow, Dagger, and Octothorp, Oh My!
    • What Climate Science Can Tell Us About the Lost World...
    • This is fun: BoxSquad . Limbs & borders are all draggable.
    • “A Los Angeles Costco parking lot [has] become a...
    • Does Christopher Nolan Consider Himself a Bard for a Civilization at Dusk?
    • Google Earth stupidly launched an AI image-gen feature...
    • The Listening Museum : “36 mechanical keyboards...
  • Outburst Chris Coyier

    Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending f…

    Yesterday · 14:32
  • Radiant Star by Ann Leckie Jeremy Keith

    I absolutely loved Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy, particularly the first book, Ancillary Justice which blew me away when I first read it. Since then I’ve enjoyed the other books she’s w…

    Yesterday · 02:57
  • OTP replay: “One time” doesn’t always mean one session WonderProxy

    Something made me pause! This was when I noticed something strange. I had entered the exact same OTP code three times across different browser sessions. Now that is a critical red alert!…

    Two Days Ago · 07:00
  • I Shot the Serif Dan Cederholm

    Or rather, I took photos of the new Serif goods that are now in the shop. I love a good typography pun, and this one was inspired by a hat I wore 20 years ago from the late and beloved Veer (a wonderf…

    Three Days Ago · 05:00
  • Backyard Designers: Draft Your Dream Design Team Brad Frost

    Backyard Designers is making its rounds, and I got to see myself as a little character. I saw commentary about it feeling icky in-club kinda stuff, which is why the parody site Brokeass Designers with…

    Four Days Ago · 18:00
  • Kri Kri Greek Frozen Yogurt Veerle Pieters

    A series of illustrations created for the Greek Frozen Yogurt ice cream line by Kri Kri.— via George Probonas…

    Four Days Ago · 00:38
  • Designing Systems That Decide Josh Clark

    “How do we transition our thinking, not for one deeply thoughtful flow or feature, but for a whole system where agents can build things we’ve never seen?” In his essay The Mental-Model Reset:…

    The Other Day · 16:28

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