January 2008
20 posts
Watchdavid: ATHF’s Carl gives his Super Bowl predictions (thanks livejamie!)
More on Gold
Gold is the basis for the monetary standard under the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is used to back currency. Under the gold standard, a certain weight of gold was given the name of a unit of currency. The US government originally set the US dollar to 1 troy ounce=$20.67 in the 1800s. In 1934 President Franklin Roosevelt saw the need for gold to adjust for inflation. He forced US citizens...
Helvetica, the movie →
I just watched a one hour twenty-one minute movie about a typeface. Technically, it’s just a documentary about a typeface, but I think it’s far more interesting than that. I highly recommend this movie, if only to get a sense of the impact Helvetica has had on the world. Note: this is a Google Video link, so watch the movie before it gets taken down. Via— cubicle17
“The definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting a different...”
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the [Amazon Kindle] is, the fact is that...”
– Steve Jobs This reminds me to mention the great article on literacy in New Yorker’s Dec 24th’s issue called The science of reading and its decline.
“MySpace, with its cluttered layout, can suggest an online incarnation of the broken-windows theory—surface disorder begetting actual chaos.” (from this week’s New Yorker) Oh Gladwell, you keep popping up everywhere like a state fair whack-a-mole. I’ve never really thought about applying the broken windows theory to web design, but it makes total sense. Careless design...
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“So to recap, what you’ve got here is a system that makes people leave their...”
– John Scalzi on Sony BMG’s DRM-free music business.
Twins marry by mistake | The Sun |HomePage|News →
CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters... →
article on the NY subway's "If you see something,... →
I was literally wondering this exact question yesterday: “What, exactly, did those 1,944 New Yorkers see, and what did they say?” — jakoblodwick
