ubuwaits: Who's interested in startups in the humanities? -
On any given day, a quick glance at Techcrunch will be proof enough that a large number of entrepreneurs are eager to replicate the success of sites like Twitter, Foursquare, and Groupon by copying their business models and making slight alterations. Not that there is anything wrong with that….
Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures
The new Google WebFont API.
These have been everywhere I look lately. They are amazing. I can’t wait to steal color palettes from these.
Just caught this poster of some folks I know(ish). Beautiful. Looks like how they sound.
I’m still not sure what that lunch was they gave me, but it was good.
Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.
Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.
There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will last forever
A thing that I need to build.
“[Design] is not a 10-step recipe for creating a “Super-Awesome Laser Beam Effect.”
