7 June 2013
Links
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TypeMedia TypeCooker: Generator
“A tool for generating type-drawing exercises. The system creates a random list of requirements for a typeface, but with relevant criteria.”
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Sketching Out of My Comfort Zone: A Type Design Experiment | Typographica
A nice post about doing a sketch of a new typeface every day.
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Do We Need to Fire the Entire Financial Advice Industry?
A good rant about how much financial advice assumes the advice-seeker’s large level of spending is perfectly fine.
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Ipswich man in Japanese Earthquake, of 1923 — Kindred Spirit
My grandad’s account of surviving the Yokohama Earthquake of 1923. Also, a photo of the old Gyford greengrocer in Ipswich.
Tweets
@tomtaylor TOM YOU’RE STILL IN THERE! COME OUT! TOM CAN YOU HEAR ME? TOM!
@tomcoates Yeah! Ugh, since starting this tweet I’ve had a go on @nickludlam’s Oculus Rift and now I feel a bit sick.
@Harkaway Reminds me of @mala’s post about public/private/secret oblomovka.com/wp/2003/10/13/… (10 years ago, eek!)
Oops, wrong window.
Reaper.new().arm(‘paveway2’).set_target( prism.get_message(‘a84ec760-cf73-11e2-8b8b-0800200c9a66’).location ).launch()
@Timo The top two things I’m endorsed for too. I guess they’re closer to what I actually do, but still… seem like stupid vague things.
@suegyford This is good on the not-being-surprised thing: oblomovka.com/wp/2013/06/06/…
@suegyford But also, I think there was at least a general assumption of some kind of judicial oversight. Not “we can see it all, whenever.”
@suegyford That’s partly what I thought too. But, as someone said, if you think this is a normal thing, that in itself is pretty bad.
@tomcoates That was good! No idea what was going on.
@Preoccupations I find it a bit weird that he’s only upset about spying on Americans.
Liked tweets
If learning “the way the world works” causes horror and surprise, maybe the problem isn’t with naïveté, but with the way the world works.