Archive for June, 2009

Issue has a whole bunch of these custom-built 6 channel speakers, left over (?) from a commissioned concert series they did a couple years back.

Headed towards the Can Factory. But facing backwards.

"Thus, it is impossible for the opponent to surrender, so it is possible to continue investment forever." via fitnr

"I am a philosophic music man, who, long ago, was seduced into musical carpentry."

University of Nottingham site featuring "videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy."

Flickr set of the some items from the Herb Lubalin archive at Cooper Union.

Century+ old fixie tricks by "Neidert."

"Time lapse video of night sky as it passes over the 2009 Texas Star Party in Fort Davis, Texas. The galactic core of Milky Way is brightly displayed. Images taken with 15mm fisheye lens."

I actually remember versions of some of these maxims from high school psych class.

Amost endlessly amusing. Personal fave: "Garamond, Wayward Son."

Literary history of extremely large numbers. That changed the world.

Moriah and I have made this twice now - it's very flavorful, but not *just* sweet or spicy like store-bought stuff usually is.

May well fill the hole in my heart that was left when I lost constant access to the OED online.

A collection of books of historical illustration and decoration. via agfa8x, more or less.

Graph and stats taken from TransAlt, who are by no means disinterested. If these numbers are real, and they seem like they might be, it's good news. Making a city bikeable takes more than a little while, but having visited European cities where they've had solid infrastructure in place for decades, the end result seems like it must be worth it.

New headphones. Why oh why do I keep doing this to myself, other than that they sound fantastic.

"Tisa is a typeface created while studing in the MA Typeface Design course at the University of Reading. The typeface was primarily created for use in various magazines that are either printed by web-fed offset or gravure printing techniques. Nevertheless, the typeface can also be successfully used in other printed media, such as newspapers, annual reports etc."