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Posts from blogs I read written in the last few days.

  • Times New Resistance Jason Kottke

    This is awesome and clever. Minneapolis designer Abby Haddican has made a typeface called Times New Resistance. The letters are identical to Times New Roman (and it even appears as such in f…

    Today · 10:25
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    • 10 Movies to Stream for Black History Month , from The...
    • Hour-long YouTube training session on how to observe &...
    • The Strangers’ Case
    • The CIA has deleted the CIA World Factbook (a popular...
    • Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South...
    • Michelangelo’s First Painting, Made at Age 12
    • The Tour Down Under’s winner won despite being...
    • “Virginia Oliver, a feisty, salty-tongued lobster...
    • Shared Claude is a website anyone can change via LLM...
    • Wow, these paper flowers from 11th-century China are...
    • How Do They…?
    • An almost 2-hour mashup mix by dk darkly of music from...
    • A Lovely 3500-Year-Old Drawing of a Sparrow
    • The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle ....
    • Only 7 gasoline cars were sold in Norway last month ....
    • Roxane Gay : “Humanity is, always, enough. We have...
    • Good god, this story: Mother Says Asking 13-Year-Old Son...
    • Minimalistic City Map Posters
    • The full trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 . The pitch...
    • Been thinking a lot about this Ted Chiang quote...
    • Vibe-coding gone wild . “Stories of family...
    • A collection of thousands of photographs of NYC...
    • Claude’s Constitution
    • The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed...
    • Podcast interview with two photojournalists who have...
    • Haven’t watched this 90-minute video yet, but...
    • A group of 50 Chileans recently spent several hours...
    • Killing In The Name, The Minnesota Edition
    • The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been....
    • Elon Musk and other internet racists started an internet...
    • Early this month, a wily coyote swam across San Francisco...
    • Seu Jorge’s Lovely Tribute to David Bowie
    • The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed ....
    • Significant Find of Cambrian Explosion Fossils
    • Culinary Students Given Live Baby To Learn How To Care...
    • Volleyball Player Does Sliding Dogeza Apology
    • As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are...
    • The Schoolchildren of Minneapolis . “As thousands...
    • Autocratic backfire : when dictators construct echo...
    • Darren Aronofsky’s AI Studio Used Artificial...
    • Do you know about the original vampire ending for Marty...
    • Tim Burton on Catherine O’Hara :...
    • ProPublica : “The two federal immigration agents...
    • Another brutal Melania pan : “First Lady is a...
    • When horrible people make bad art, the reviews are fun to...
    • “The end of Temporary Protected Status has...
    • Illustrator Chris Piascik has made several of his...
    • Stamps: Graphic Art in Miniature
  • Measuring SVG rendering time Stoyan Stefanov

    The questions Is rendering large SVGs significantly slower than smaller ones? Is there a cut-off size above which things are terrible? And what if these SVGs were PNGs, just for giggles. To answer thi…

    Today · 00:32
  • What Happens When Agents Meet? Josh Clark

    This essay is part of a series about Sentient Design, the practice of creating intelligent interfaces with AI. The book Sentient Design by Josh Clark with Veronika Kindred will be published by Ro…

    Yesterday · 15:23
  • “A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” Jeffrey Zeldman

    Posted today for no particular reason. The post “A streamlined newspaper for a streamlined era” appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.…

    Yesterday · 08:56
  • Write about the future you want Dave Rupert

    There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s unde…

    Yesterday · 08:45
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Cattivo John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Slab serifs, which are frequently featured in old wood type catalogs as among the most functional types, exude vintage qualities – even the new and revival faces re…

    Two Days Ago · 23:02
  • Designing a Life That Excites You with Christine Vallaure | Wake Up Excited! Brad Frost

    On the latest episode of Wake Up Excited!, I talk with my friend Christine Vallaure. Christine is a designer, speaker, and the founder of moonlearning, an online learning platform for UI and product d…

    Three Days Ago · 11:42
  • People Photographed With Their Vehicles Tina Roth Eisenberg

    People photographed with their vehicles. Made me smile.…

    Three Days Ago · 08:08
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    • Thinking Is The Enemy of Creatvity
    • Painted Rocks
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 1/31 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:Carlito’s WayBrian De Palma, 1993, ★★Ricky Jay and His 52 AssistantsDavid Mamet, 1996, ★★★★Side EffectsSteven Soderbergh, 2013, ★★★Added to the music lib…

    The Other Day · 22:00
  • Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way Cassidy Williams

    Turns out just asking for help gets you help? Who knew? Here's how I increased my newsletter open rate.…

    The Other Day · 17:00

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