The most ridiculous live mashup on a Novation Launchpad ever
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The most ridiculous mountain biking video ever
It starts out pretty nuts, and then part 2 goes straight to plaid.
via reddit
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Old-Timey Web Fonts
I was playing around with Google’s Web Font Directory and found some great fonts. I really like IM Fell English and IM Fell DW Pica, both originally designed by John Fell in the 1600′s and digitized by Igino Marini.
Marini’s THE FELL TYPES and some revival fonts page has some background and history:
The Fell Types took their name from John Fell, a Bishop of Oxford in the seventeenth-century. Not only he created an unique collection of printing types but he started one of the most important adventures in the history of typography. You will find here a non-exhaustive history and a modern digitalization of some of them.
Here is a sample of the IM Fell English web font:
I think these will be perfect when we add text mode to the IA bookreader!
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shag
http://www.dafont.com/ is also pretty cool. They claim they have 12,660 fonts there, in various forms of ‘free’. Who knew there were so many font designers out there?
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may
ooh this is really neat. this is quite possibly the nicest web font browser I’ve seen!
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San Francisco, as seen from above
Jon Hope has been taking pictures from a helicopter and posting them to his blog.
I love this shot of the Transamerica Pyramid:
And this one of the Bay Bridge toll plaza:
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Ooh.. Bernal Tilt Shift:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonhope/5759180673/in/set-72157626610238046/
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The Musalman, a Handprinted Daily
The Musalman is a newspaper handprinted in Urdu calligraphy daily in Chennai, India. Here is a short film about it:
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Meanwhile, The San Francisco Public Library
Wendy MacNoughton draws the San Francisco Public Library, In Its Own Words:
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may
I love this series of paintings soooo much! when I was a kid my dad dropped me off at the public library every weekend for hours while he did errands and grocery shopping. the library was basically my daycare…i checked out and read 10 books every week….nowadays, i’m lucky if I read 10 books in a year. sigh.
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Wendy MacNoughton won an Awesome Fellowship from the Awesome Foundation:
She has more work up on her blog: http://wendymacnaughton.blogspot.com/
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Robot Bird
You know, Blade Runner was set in 2019.. that is only eight years away!-
Igor Reyes | Herramientas de Marketing en Internet
Fantastic draft Festo guys, is there anything that man can not achieve?
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Never say never
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Chanda Mama Door Ke is a children’s song from the 1955 movie Vachan
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Doodling in Math Class
This is a great video about doodling and graph theory:
via reddit. Here are more videos of Mathematical Doodling by Vi Hart.
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Amon Tobin – Esther’s
I’ve never seen this video before.. It’s based on “Esther’s” by Amon Tobin. Found via this incredible MeFi post about Ninja Tune.
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Words.. they fail me…
When you have kids, apparently your sense of style goes out the window and mail order companies from Kentucky decide that now you are smack dab in their target demo. This is some serious 1950s Sears Roebuck bullshit right here. We got a whole fucking catalog full of this crap. Just look at this disaster:
OK, I admit it. I would so buy this family pajama clusterfuck if they just included some puppy dog pjs for Zara.
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This is actually family survival gear. Mimicking the effect of a school of fish or herd of zebras, these outfits will confuse any predators/muggers chasing them down by reducing their ability to get a fix on any one family member.
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trish
LOL. you know you love it. we are *so* buying these for you! i can tailor one for zara…
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may
hah! these look exactly like the kind of PJs my mom would buy for me. I think I even have a sweater like that with bells and satin bows on it
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Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco
Amazing auto-biographical sculpture made with 100,000 toothpicks over thirty five years:
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How Can You Deny An Electric Car?
Ravi likes the Electric Car song by They Might Be Giants. Cute paper-cutout video too!
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Cross-writing
During the 1800′s, letters were sometimes writing using cross-writing to save paper. The Boston Public Library has been scanning letters written by Abolitionists prior to the American Civil War. Here is an example of a letter that shows two levels of cross-writing. However, it is written with a cursive slant so that the ascenders and descenders seem to form additional diagonal layers:
In 1890, Lewis Carrol wrote a booklet titled Eight or nine wise words about letter-writing where he warned against cross-writing:
My ninth Rule. When you get to the end of a note-sheet, and find you have more to say, take another piece of paper — a whole sheet, or a scrap, as the case may demand: but, whatever you do, don’t cross! Remember the old proverb ‘Cross-writing makes cross reading‘. “The old proverb?” you say, en-quiringly. “How old?” Well, not so very ancient, I must confess. In fact, I’m afraid I invented it while writing this paragraph! Still, you know, ‘old’ is a comparative term. I think you would be quite justified in addressing a chicken, just out of the shell, as ” Old boy ! “, when compared with another chicken, that was only half-out!
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The Coffee Wars
A Ken Burns documentary on the San Francisco Coffee Wars
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SFFD Ladder Shop
I always wondered about the wooden ladders used by the SF Fire Department…
Ladder Shop for SFFD from AdamKaplan on Vimeo.
via mefi
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Live dubstep + tabla + flutebox
I found this video on the Engine-EarZ Experiment YouTube channel. It’s a live dubstep collaboration between the Engine-EarZ and Nathan “Flutebox” Lee:
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Proofs of a Conspiracy
Boing Boing has an excellent post on the Birth of the Illuminati, which traces the Illuminati conspiracy theory back to a book called Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, published in 1797.
Here is a scan of Proofs of a Conspiracy, scanned from the John Adams Library by the Internet Archive:
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Behind the scenes at sampleswap.org
A look at the editing work needed to keep sampleswap.org running. 120 minutes compressed down to 2.5:
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Drums On Demand
Thanks for the post – it’s hard to find good drum tracks these days, so thanks for sharing!
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may is discussing. 
may, and 
shag are discussing. 
jess are discussing. 
trish, and 
may 3:37 pm on July 12, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
that looks fun! (except for the parts that run along steep rocky drop offs to certain death!)