February 2011
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January 2011
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New Rule: Americans Must Realize What Makes NFL... →
Now, me personally, I haven’t watched a Super Bowl since 2004, when Janet Jackson’s nipple popped out during half time, and that split-second glimpse of an unrestrained black titty burned my eyes and offended me as a Christian. But I get it—who doesn’t love the spectacle of juiced-up millionaires giving each other brain damage on a giant flat-screen TV with a picture so realistic it feels like...
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Name the cat. →
Considering it’s All Kitty All the Time over at Blog du Jabbour these days, and considering the kitty that is All the Time still remains nameless, I suppose it’s time to ask folks this very important question:
What would you name this kitty?
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“There will be no moves to take certain customers... →
Verizon, the telecom giant, would acquire “cloud computing company” Terremark for $1.4 billion. The purchase would “accelerate Verizon’s ‘everything-as-a-service’ cloud strategy,” the press release said. …
Among its portfolio of data centers in the US, Europe and Latin America, Terremark owns one of the single most important buildings on the global Internet, a giant fortress on the edge of...
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We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and...
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010 →
#1: You.
Your brain’s been cobbled together over millions of years of blind evolution and it shows. You’re clumsy, stupid, weak and motivated by the basest of urges. Your MO is both grotesquely selfish and unquestionably deferential to questionable authority. You’re not in control of your life. You wear your ignorance like a badge of honor and gleefully submit to oppression,...
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Milton Glaser, stand-up comedian
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The New York Subway map (Vignelli’s version) as a living string instrument
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The risk for transmission of zoonotic agents by close contact between pets and...
– Drs. Bruno Chomel and Ben Sun, “Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie in Your Bed Can Kill You,” AOLNews
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Futura for AIGA members →
Join fellow AIGA members on a trip to the theater. Portland Center Stage has graciously offered AIGA Portland a group rate (30% off) to attend the March 10th show of its play, Futura.
Futura is described as, “a font; a love story; but ultimately… one rogue professor’s quest to avenge her missing husband – and the lost art of ink on paper.” As Portland Center Stage designer (and AIGA regular)...
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elizmayerle asked: ...what's the point of the Oxford comma? Are you serious? This is where we part grammar/typography ways.
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The hypothesis is that the added difficulty in reading these texts forces more...
– Laura Miller, “Hideous fonts may boost reading comprehension,” Salon
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Mikev Olhão →
My NPR name, bitches.
The rules: Take the first letter of your middle name and insert it anywhere you’d like in your first name. And then your last name is the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited. Presto: You too can compete with Korva Coleman, Lakshmi Singh and Mandalit del Barco.
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Top Ten Terrible Things Done to Us by Sen. Joe... →
10. Undermined Jeffersonian ideals by joining with George W. Bush to throw government money to religious organizations.
9. Revived, with Lynn Cheney, McCarthyite techniques in order to harass and intimidate university professors who dared attempt to explain the historical and political context for the rise of al-Qaeda and its attacks on the United States. He even put out a blacklist of 40...
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Two spaces after a period: Why you should never,... →
Every modern typographer agrees on the one-space rule. It’s one of the canonical rules of the profession, in the same way that waiters know that the salad fork goes to the left of the dinner fork and fashion designers know to put men’s shirt buttons on the right and women’s on the left. Every major style guide—including the Modern Language Association Style Manual and the Chicago Manual of...