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Typewriter / Typeface: The Legacy of the Writing Machine in Type Design

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typographica.org

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Pride photos go.

Allow me one recap post of this past week.

In every respect…friendship, sportsmanship, my relationship…the past 7 days have been perhaps the best week of my life. I can think of at least 20 things that I did that the old me could never have considered ever happening.

So thanks to everyone who was a part of this, and here’s all the photos off my camera. Except for that one photo. Which was a really good photo, but un-postable.

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Liberal Biases, Too, May Block Progress on Climate Change

Liberal resistance to nuclear power plants, which emit virtually no greenhouse gases, could be damaging in the effort to combat climate change.

www.nytimes.com|Eduardo Porter

Liberals dump on conservatives for denying climate change and evolution, while they irrationally fear GMOs and vaccines. Human cognitive biases know no political stripe.

#science and technology

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Camera sales history. Or, the camera industry is history.

Not a coincidence: the iPhone 4 came out in 2010, and then standalone camera sales fell of a cliff.

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Choosing a Simple Prime Kit

www.dslrbodies.com|Thom Hogan

If you’re in the under 20 crowd, you might not fully appreciate those perspectives. Smartphones have had fixed focal length lenses, and lately that’s trended towards about 28mm. So “normal perspective” for the young crowd is decidedly different than for the older crowd.

(I should point out that “normal perspective” for young smartphone users differs across countries, too. People stand closer in Europe than they do in the US, for example.)

I refuse to accept that 28mm is appropriate for photographing people. I am old.

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For Some, iPad Pro Can’t Match PC Strengths

A panel of design professionals found that despite the tablet’s size, they still had to turn to a computer for more powerful apps.

www.nytimes.com|Brian X. Chen

Doing my day job with an iPad would be like mowing a football field with an electric razor.

The only people who “work” on iPads are people who write blog posts.

So it’s set then. Welcome to our carless future.

Except for the small detail that car sales are headed in the wrong direction — they are skyrocketing. Last year saw a record 17.5 million cars and trucks sold in the United States; China sold a record 21.1 million (although growth is slowing), and India a record 2.03 million. The United Kingdom sold a record 2.6 million, Australia a record a record 1.6 million…are you sensing a theme?

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Breaking Unbreakable Encryption

www.mondaynote.com

Or, how the NSA probably works, and how “back doors” politicians are agitating for will fuck us so very hard if implemented.

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It’s been real, DI and buzz

Thus, earlier this week, when Illini Media Company announced that it was only going to print The Daily Illini for two days a week starting in January and was totally ending the printing of buzz Magazine starting March of this coming semester, I was taken aback.

www.smilepolitely.com

The resource that the University of Illinois once had, where students were forced to work in and manage their own fully functioning print newspaper environment is really unique, and taught countless numbers of students what a proper print journalism entity should function as, both internally and externally.

Working at Illini Media will go down as one of the most important, formative experiences of my life. It’s sad to see reality catch up to it.