September 2010
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When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the...
– Sinclair Lewis
August 2010
12 posts
Day 3 - Favorite TV Show
watermelonbread:
I don’t watch T.V.
Yes.
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July 2010
24 posts
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Preserving the Criminal Code →
Photo slide show of actual prison tattoos from the early 1900s.
The tattoo collection at the Department of Forensic Medicine at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland consists of 60 objects preserved in formaldehyde, a method devised by one of the experts employed by the Department at the turn of 20th century.
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My Weekend
Our power went out Saturday evening around 6:30 and didn’t come back on until around 8pm Sunday.
Electric company told us it would be back on by 10pm Saturday, so we waited and made sure not to open the fridge.
10pm came and went.
Ultimately, it was our fault we lost everything in the fridge, instead of rushing out to buy 10 bags of ice and coolers. The plus side is, the fridge was...
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TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have...
– Author unknown
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Me: I've got a computer in my hand! (Shows iPhone). I know it because an app just crashed and quit unexpectedly.
Him: Yeah. That's great. (Goes back to sampler)
Me: I HAVE A COMPUTER IN MY HAND. (Shows the iPhone)
Him: Yeah. Great.
Me: YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. THIS IS THE INTERNET. IT'S A COMPUTER.
Him: YES. IT IS GREAT.
June 2010
37 posts
Comic Sans + Teachers = Danger
The first activity in my ed tech textbook is to make a flyer. The heading font is Comic Sans, one of the most ill-abused fonts in education ever. Do people not realize the wealth of beautiful fonts we now have available? And freely available at that.
I shall follow the assignment guidelines, but also submit a more beautiful version.
Comic Sans.
Fuck.
jimray: Keming, a Safari extension to fix... →
mrgan:
Jim Ray sez:
I couldn’t sleep last night so I made the world’s easiest Safari extension to auto-apply text-rendering: optimizeLegibility to every page you come across.
It’s a one-click way to improve how the web looks for you. Note that this is, however, not a substitute for tweaking your own website so you improve your corner of the web for everyone else.
Typography—good...
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US Healthcare Reform is Important: Two Examples...
Example One
My family did not have health insurance when I was growing up. My mom was a single mother for the first eight years of my life, and when she remarried, we still didn’t get insurance. She worked what jobs she could on a high school diploma, and my step-father (also with only a high school diploma) worked in the steel mills of Northern Indiana. A unionized position that saw many...
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Scary
I have a roll of 35mm film from the 90s that I’ve yet to develop. I’m afraid of what might be on it. Assuming the film hasn’t been compromised and/or degraded in the last decade.
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A good friend will help you move. A great friend will help you move a body. A...
– dive into mark