August 2007
38 posts
Who Shot the Serif? Typography Terms →
The long-term aim of this blog is to be such a resource, a one-stop-shop for everything about typography, from terminology to new typefaces, from inspirational examples of type to choosing the best font for the job, whether that be on- or off-line.
Cientistas encontram maneira de recriar fenômeno... →
Existe algo de bom nos homens? →
What percentage of your ancestors were men? No, it’s not 50 percent, as I’ll explain shortly.
"Kid Nation": um reality show que colocou 40... →
“Seriously, if the terrorists hated freedom, then the Netherlands would be...”
– David Cross
Arthur Miller's Missing Act →
For all the public drama of Arthur Miller’s career—his celebrated plays (including Death of a Salesman and The Crucible), his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, his social activism—one character was absent: the Down-syndrome child he deleted from his life.
“the boys i mean are not refined / they go with girls who buck and bite / they do...”
– e e cummings
Bonsoir Juanita →
"50 Really Good Indie Games" →
Quem edita a Wikipedia? →
Wikipedia Scanner — the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith — offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.
My Life as a Hot Woman →
My beautiful baby-sitter needs a boyfriend. So I became her Cyrano. I’ve been a beautiful woman for fifty days, and no one has compared me to a summer’s day. No one has said my lips are like rose blossoms or my throat is as smooth as alabaster.
A Ciência de Insultar as Mulheres →
Breve artigo no blog do Freakonomics.
As maiores "invenções" da vida →
O olho, o cérebro, a morte, a fotosíntese. Artigo interessante da New Scientist. The invention of the eye ushered in a more brutal and competitive world. Vision made it possible for animals to become active hunters, and sparked an evolutionary arms race that transformed the planet.
China's iClone →
Cellphones, microchips, cars, even iPhones — there’s virtually no high-tech Western product that China’s cloners can’t copy. Pretty soon, you might even prefer their work.
Tinydrum4.0 — plataforma para música aleatória →
Aperte R para aleatorizar. L para limpar. Copie os números para salvar a seqüência, ou cole os números para carregar.
Coleção de discos pode revelar novo aspecto da... →
Outward hatred for Jews and Russians may have belied a secret passion for some of their greatest musical works, if a recently discovered cache of records proves to be the remains of Adolf Hitler’s private music collection.
O sagrado e o humano →
Os polemistas ateus de hoje em dia ignoram a principal conclusão da antropologia da religião — de que a religião não trata primariamente de Deus, mas da necessidade humana pelo sagrado.
Ridley Scott quer transformar Banco Imobiliário em... →
“Claramente, tem que ser algo bem-humorado, para a família — o jeito como o seu tio de repente compra a avenida tal. Você assiste às pessoas mudando. É como testemunhar Jekyll e Hyde. Em algum lugar aí tem algo histericamente divertido que pode render um filme empolgante”.
“A história do mundo não é mais do que o progresso da consciência da liberdade”
– Hegel (via Dez momentos radicais na arte do século XX, no the new shelton wet/dry)
Caminhar causa "mais danos ao meio ambiente do que... →
Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance.
“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
– Mark Twain, When insults had class
