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  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the... Jason Kottke

    The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the line-up: the Midi. “The standard Times daily crossword, you see, is a 15×15 grid. The Mini is 5×5. The new Midi is 9×9, snug in be…

    Today · 15:36
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    • Satellite’s Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse Photo Taken From Orbit
    • “ Eclipses have been connected with the fate of...
    • Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth : 530km...
    • “ x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86...
    • Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been...
    • Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker
    • How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account ....
    • Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free...
    • An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75)
    • Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The...
    • “A collection of images of trees at Dollar Tree...
    • Physics Is a Conversation
    • These synchronized martial arts robots are genuinely...
    • They’re doing a new Pride and Prejudice adaptation...
    • Jayden Hoffman spent more than 4 months customizing this...
    • Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? “When the...
    • “The CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a...
    • Commenters in this thread shared a bunch of songs...
    • 20 Minutes of Excellent Skateboarding Clips
    • Tear Gun by Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen is a...
    • Cover of Such Great Heights by Chvrches
    • “I remember walking by a former drug dealer, a...
    • I Am a 15-year-old Girl. Let Me Show You the Vile...
    • How to Stop a Dictator . “Democracy is in fact a...
    • The Trailer for Season Five of For All Mankind
    • Top tier nerd shit. “ WalkmanLand is a tribute to...
    • Well, this is one of those things I wish I’d known...
    • Andor Creator Tony Gilroy Is Free to Speak About Fascism Now
    • A Meta employee who works on AI safety let an AI agent...
    • I Hate Trump’s Awful Policies, but I Love That...
    • Writer Lauren Groff on how she works . “After she...
    • “We” Haven’t Lost Our Sense of Shame....
    • Token Anxiety . “This voice in my head that says...
    • Unusual Views of the Winter Olympics
    • “Antibodies harvested from the blood of...
    • “What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done...
    • The United States of Beauty
    • Is Donald Trump Alive? Now, this is a site that knows...
    • The hum of a grocery store’s freezers delights...
    • “A new ethic is quietly emerging among modern...
    • Butter Tea
    • A ripple of excitement pulsed through the crowd. Paul...
    • The folks behind Dark Sky spun themselves out of Apple...
  • Erwin Wurm Tina Roth Eisenberg

    Erwin Wurm’s absurd art makes my heart sing.…

    Today · 13:53
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    • No Idea
    • Alysa Liu
  • How Not to Take 10 Years to Design a Typeface John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts I have often heard type designers talk about the many years they spend developing a typeface. I would listen with awe and think, “That must have been a real challen…

    Today · 01:37
  • Tucci Pan Review Chris Coyier

    Stanley Tucci has a set of cookware named after him that GreenPan sells. I’ve got these two pans: I forget where they came from exactly, some silent auction or something, but I unboxed and start…

    Yesterday · 11:36
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    • You Get Good At What You Do (Or Do You?)
  • A nice day Jeremy Keith

    It’s the 25th of February and it’s a beautiful day here in Brighton. I had lunch sitting outside—that’s how unseasonably warm it is. Like a little whiff of Summer to remind us of what’s ye…

    Yesterday · 09:09
  • Headless boot for Beelink EQ14 Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Two Days Ago · 09:09
  • Is it worth pointing out the use of technology anymore? Greg Storey

    What happens when a prolific author integrates AI into their work so much that it turns up wholesale in their writing? Seth Godin—said prolific author—recently posted an argument for hir…

    Three Days Ago · 10:11
  • Troika #59: Win some, lose most Jon Hicks

    I couldn’t let episode #59 be anything else but a celebration of one of my favourite bands: Starflyer 59. I've been besotted with them for over thirty years, and as such, it’s going to be a quadru…

    Three Days Ago · 08:30
  • Automate Chapter Headers and Section Titles in Adobe InDesign Veerle Pieters

    If you’re familiar with Adobe InDesign and Master Pages, you may have wondered how to automatically display the current chapter title at the top of each page. Or maybe your document is using diffe…

    Three Days Ago · 02:50
  • Smaller and dumber Dave Rupert

    If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.…

    Four Days Ago · 22:33
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    • Priority of idle hands
  • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 2/21 Rob Weychert

    Added to the film diary:The Watermelon WomanCheryl Dunye, 1996, ★★★½Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New OrleansWerner Herzog, 2009, ★★★★ Tagged: February 2026 Reply via…

    The Other Day · 22:00

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