2013-08-21 (Wednesday)
Links
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Butterick’s Practical Typography
Free online guide, which seems quite good, but… all that attention to detail and he makes it almost impossible to tell what’s a link. Bloody Designer designers. (via Daring Fireball)
Tweets
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YAY! A new type of email notification from Twitter I can opt out of on all my accounts one-by-one! BRILLIANT! (nb: may not be brilliant)
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@engineeringdept I (and Spotify) don’t have it… Happy to relinquish the speakers to someone who has it, but has no Lighthouse Family.
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@littlecabaret The last time I checked there were also other hallmarks.
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@mondoagogo I couldn’t possibly comment.
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“I’ll like this one. Oh, I’ve liked that already.” “Or maybe I liked it?” “Shall I like this one…? OK, I’ve liked it now.”
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@dotcode Yeah, thanks, it’d be interesting to see what they find important. Easy to take this stuff for granted.
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@dotcode Wow. What kind of questions?
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A metaphor that was also pushed to the same limit by the same company a year ago, with a previous name change: web.archive.org/web/2012091821…
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Not quite an Incredible Journey (just a name change) but this certainly pushes the metaphor to the limit: edgecase.com
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@littlecabaret It might be worth logging in just to remove an un-needed apostrophe for them. I know you want to.