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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • tweet Derek Sivers

    My life was changed by four sentences in four books : sive.rs/4s4b…

    Yesterday · 21:37
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    • My life was changed by four sentences in four books
  • Font Faces: Nick Shinn John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Welcome to the debut issue of Font Faces: the people behind the type. We ask type designers from around the globe the same five core questions (plus some potential fo…

    Yesterday · 21:06
  • “So, at about 14, I became the team’s... Jason Kottke

    “So, at about 14, I became the team’s unofficial basketball musician,” writes Theocharis Papatrechas. “A big shot earned a triumphant snare drum roll with a resolving crash. And if…

    Yesterday · 14:00
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    • The World Press Freedom Index at Global 25-Year Low
    • Sounds of the 60s: the IBM 1401 (punchcard collation,...
    • Jamelle Bouie thinks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is...
    • Being Fed Content
    • Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can...
    • Can You See the World When You Close Your Eyes?
    • We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More...
    • Digg has (sorta) relaunched (again) and instead of an...
    • How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant...
    • Remember Desktop Tower Defense ? I played it for a bit...
    • Taken : this is a web page that shows how much data your...
    • Mesmerizing 4K Video of a Cat-5 Super Typhoon
    • Interesting thread about why rural towns don’t...
    • Wallace & Gromit 24/7 Livestream
    • People Who Don’t Like People Are Making All of Our...
    • Grandma Stand
    • Where are the public benches on the internet?...
    • Now open in NYC: a pop-up called The Donald J. Trump and...
    • The Hidden Cassettes . “This is going to sound...
    • In 1951, the Civil Rights Congress submitted a petition...
    • Someone in a private forum I belong to mentioned fountain...
    • Wowsabout!
    • An analysis of 18 years of Guardian blind dates ....
    • Pioneering abstract artist Hilma af Klint’s...
    • The Design Evolution of Screwdriver Handles
    • What Can We Do About Partisan Gerrymandering? Jamelle...
    • Nolen Royalty : “My latest project is Marc...
    • The 2025 Alaskan Tsunami That Measured 1578 Feet Tall
    • Prophecy At 1420 MHz is the first single from Boards of...
    • It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday...
  • Attention: Fake Reminders Regarding the Renewal of Trademark Rights Marc Thiele

    10 years after you registered a trademark in Germany, you have to renew it, if you want, otherwise the copyright ends after the period you paid for.…

    Yesterday · 05:39
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    • ⇾ The Last Days of Social Media
  • The Boring Internet | Terry Godier Brad Frost

    The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. YESSSSSS. The Boring Internet by Terry Godier…

    Two Days Ago · 21:24
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    • Spicy Chicken w/ Brad Frost | Wireframe Live
  • Good products begin with good decisions Chris Shiflett

    Faculty has been a product studio for ten years. This week, we’re launching something new: a productized engagement called the Faculty Sprint. Ten years ago, building products was slower and more e…

    Two Days Ago · 11:22
  • Point Out The Good Tina Roth Eisenberg

    point out the good when you see it. in life, in others, in yourself. because the world needs to remember what kindness and love look like. – topher kearby…

    Three Days Ago · 14:07
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    • Brik.space
    • Wonderful World
  • Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Jeremy Keith

    Lesbian necromancers in space. That’s the usual pitch for Gideon The Ninth and it’s not wrong. Though there’s a lot more necromancy than space or lesbianism. The book begins in an environment…

    Four Days Ago · 17:31
  • Qobuz Theme v1.3 for Qobuz Beta Jon Hicks

    This is small bug-fix version of the custom Qobuz theme for the Beta release. There's not many changes but they're important ones, fixing bugs that will affect your usage of the app: Fix for the 'Cat…

    Four Days Ago · 05:00
  • Studio Notes #83 Dan Cederholm

    Hello, Very Fine People. Here are this week’s Studio Notes™—quick bits delivered to you each Friday. I'm writing today from Chicago, where I was chair for the Society of Typo…

    The Other Day · 10:43
  • Why Meteorologists Make More Than Fortune Tellers Dan Mall

    “Value pricing” has two words in it. Most designers only pay attention to one of them. They obsess over the “pricing” part—the number, the proposal, the negotiation—and spend almost no ti…

    The Other Day · 05:00

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