Archive for August, 2007
Way better than Hot Wheels
Surfing is better than the Hot Wheels track and cars I played with when I was seven. Jim and I used to set up the long orange track from the radiator cover – which was four feet high – in the living room at 50 East 96th Street, and run it down the length of the 60-foot hall. [...]
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Font
Veer has exquisite typefaces. My favorite among those shown on the first page is Savoir Faire. Clean, crisp, elegant, tolerably illegible at times. When I first got into desktop publishing – a latecomer to it, I’m sure, in 1986/87, which I subsequently left in 1990 - I went through a brief affair with Palatino along with [...]
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“Beer pong”
The Wall Street Journal, which I normally find very helpful in its digestion of the day’s news, had an article on beer pong that unhelpfully compared it to a “cross between ping pong and beer chugging.” Have they forgotten the game of quarters, long practiced in both frat houses and bars? No mention of this is [...]
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The beginning of joy (slideshow)
Photos are royalty-free, used with grateful appreciation to the owners.
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A bio I…encountered…online for a man who works with a consultant in the homeland security field mused as follows: “[Dr. Joe Smith] a medical neuroscientist, has an MD/PhD from [West Coast] University, is the [employee title] of the Institute for Interventional Informatics and has gained international recognition for pioneering new methods of physiologically based human-computer [...]
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