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

  • TypeParis Now26 🇫🇷 Elliot Jay Stocks

    See the full details on the event’s website…

    The Other Day · 10:00
  • A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis... Jason Kottke

    A supercut of context-free intertitles from Adam Curtis documentaries. Even if you don’t know who Adam Curtis is, this is entertaining.…

    Today · 14:54
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    • New episode of Great Art Explained on Francis Bacon ....
    • 20 years ago: a guy interviewing for an IT job gets...
    • Jon Krakauer writes about what has changed about...
    • Infants are dying because parents are opting-out of...
    • My pal Matt Haughey recut the first season of Apple...
    • This is nuts: Fred Again has uploaded a video of every...
    • Movie Posters by Eric Rohman
    • The official trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The...
    • What now-familiar domain names looked like before they...
    • Pocket forests . “The Miyawaki method of...
    • Could This Fish Be a Notebook? “David Byrne...
    • A24’s Young Anthony Bourdain Movie
    • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace in black & white with the...
    • Microshifting . “From a creativity standpoint,...
    • The Booksellers is a 2019 feature-length documentary film...
    • New Banksy: Blinded by Nationalism
    • Designer Jenny Volvovski’s collection of...
    • I’m not a fan of the first part of this music...
    • According to this peer-reviewed paper, the...
    • NASA has released some 12,000 unseen photos from the...
    • The Contiguous 41 States
    • A 55-minute mix of Boards of Canada B-sides and rarities .
    • “They Would Never Use the Death Star on Us”:...
    • The Visual Comedy of Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs
    • How Sylvester Stallone Rescued the First Rambo Film With...
  • The schedule for UX London 2026 Jeremy Keith

    There’s just under a month to go until UX London 2026—exciting! You can peruse the full schedule if you need to decide wether you’re coming for just one day or for all three. The event is des…

    Today · 07:36
  • Vibe Check №42 Dave Rupert

    Forgive me, Reader. It’s been five months since my last vibe check. That’s a lot of ground to cover and it’s not possible to get into everything that happened. Like in real life conversations, i…

    Yesterday · 07:41
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    • The duality of language models in the browser
  • Steven Heller’s Font of the Month: Puffery John Boardley

    Read the book, Typographic Firsts Sometimes I get a hankering to see someone use a good old Blackletter, spikey Fraktur, or rounded Textura that transports me back to medieval Europe when a printer’…

    Yesterday · 01:18
  • Geography is four-dimensional Derek Sivers

    Forty years ago, a family moved from India to Canada, and raised their children with “Indian values”. When those children visited India last year, the locals laughed at their outdated beliefs.…

    Two Days Ago · 22:00
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    • 1993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen
    • Netizen
  • Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Tina Roth Eisenberg

    “The prosperity of the community grows from the flow of relationships, not the accumulation of goods.” – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (via)…

    Two Days Ago · 12:09
  • The absorbingly impenetrable typography of Analogical Force and Geometric Love Rob Weychert

    Analogical Force, an electronic music label based in Madrid, found its way onto my radar earlier this year when I picked up Oh Mr. James’s fun I’m Not Here EP. Most of the label’s output hone…

    Two Days Ago · 10:32
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    • Entries logged without comment for the week ending 5/2
  • Determining if a reboot is required on Linux Matthew Weier O’Phinney

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    Two Days Ago · 07:35
  • Shipping todometer, version 3! Cassidy Williams

    I updated my app todometer after several years of it lying dormant, and it's better than ever!…

    The Other Day · 18:00

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