Archive for November, 2012
The AWWWARDS site has a list of best 20 web fonts. Web typography is a little far afield from this blog's usual topics, but I figure it's close enough....
In addition to being amused by the phrase “semi-finished casting products,“ I like (and hadn't encountered before) a couple of the specific names of such products: billet “a length of...
Researchers at U. Penn have created software that generates typos. Give it a phrase, and it will generate a list of variants on that phrase, featuring things like missing letters,...
I have no training and but little skill in rhetoric, but I find the bits of it that I've seen fascinating, especially the names for things. I recently learned that...
I got curious about why HAL 9000 sings “Daisy” (actual song title: “Daisy Bell) in 2001. It turns out that it's because Arthur C. Clarke saw a 1962 Bell Labs...