July 2008
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June 2008
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“Break the Glass Ceiling and Golden Parachute on down!”
– Neil Fallon, Clutch
“Blood is freedom’s stain.”
– Iron Maiden - Two Minutes to Midnight.
“The internet is a beautiful and cluttered sea that renews itself with each wave...”
– Veer: Ideas: Taipei personality by Anders J. Svensson
Stiff Little Fingers - Doesn’t Make it...
“Some of this misunderstanding is due to automobile advertising, some to people...”
– Straight Dope Staff Report: What’s the difference between horsepower and torque?
“It’s a giant shit sandwich, and we are all going to have to take a bite.”
– Full Metal Jacket, but applicable to workplaces world-wide.
“Wow! Those cartoons weren’t really far off.”
– Nik on her recent tooth extraction.
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“A typographic solution develops from the typography’s intrinsic form; the...”
– Willi Kunz
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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
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- Ernest Hemingway baroque = puke (via nikography)
Agreed Gold is dead.
“As soon as I came out of the hotel—Yes, now I think I have found the right...”
– (via dailymeh) I enjoy how this was written.
“Hey senior have you been taken past your prime
Have you been taken advantage of...”
– Ignite - Veteran
“Punctuation is a word derived from the Latin punctus, to point. Punctus is also...”
– The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design — Jon Tan 陳
“Still keenly attentive, looks hard at adolphus. He was going
overland from...”
– The bottom of a spam email I got today. W…t…f…
Sign of the times...
So I’m riding home from work on my motorcycle today and I’m stopped at a traffic light. Someone pulls up right up beside me in a car (in the same lane).
Normally this is something that really ticks me off, but the man curiously asked with an Indian-Asian accent, “what mile per gallon does that motor bike get.” I replied “…about 50, 40 if I really beat on...
Design to be Consumed
I can’t believe the product cycle Apple is instilling with the release of iPhone 2.0. Almost exactly one year later the product is obsolete and now has double the features and half the price.
This is an event that is going to set the pace of the industry, I’m not sure if this is good or bad.
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“Never accept “it should look good” as a goal. This should be a...”
– Communication design is not subjective
“Never fall in love with an idea. They’re whores: if the one you’re with isn’t...”
– Chip Kidd (via scout)
“I was lucky to make my rent back then let alone own a camera…those were...”
– Some dude on my Speed Triple message board.
I took a bird to the chest again today. For the second time in my motorcycle career.
What the fuck?
“Could’ve been a swan on a glassy lake.
Could’ve been a gull in a...”
– Clutch, The Dragonfly
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