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PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator

I don’t know what the text I wrote means, I just like it.

Oh, phooey. I tried to save my image with my iPad, but it didn’t work. Well, it was fun anyway.

PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator.

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The Comic Sans Song

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Comic Sans is a typeface, not a font. I therefore choose to interpret this song as parody, in which case this video is awesome.

“Comic Sans is the best font in the world / If you want your designs to look like they’re done by little girls.”

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Pinkalicious — “Buzz Off”

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My daughter plays the Bumblebee in “Buzz Off,” which both ended Act I and opened Act II in last weekend’s Stage Right! production of Pinkalicious.

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Almost Flat Design

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Apple, Google and Microsoft have very different design aesthetics.

Almost Flat Design | Matthew Moore Design.

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A 27-Story Vertical Forest Grows in Milan

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Bosco Verticale was conceived in response to the alarming levels of air pollution in Milan. The structure itself is no more radical than your average high-rise tower block, but when fortified with over 700 balcony-perched trees, not only will the buildings look like two enormous topiaries in the middle of the city, but they will [...]

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Mother 3: My Mom, and Me

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Thoughtful, powerful, personal analysis of a computer game. Blogging this as an example of “new games journalism,” so I can have it handy the next time I teach Video Game Culture and Theory.

When someone you love dies, your view of the world takes on an air of mysticism. You find meaning in places you [...]

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Vote for your favorite Monopoly token — or else!

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One of the six current game pieces will be voted out, to make room for one of these new ones. I’m partial to the captain’s chair in Star Trek Monopoly. What do you think about these options?

Hasbro, maker of the board game available in 111 countries and 43 languages, is replacing one of the [...]

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Stephen Coles’ The Anatomy of Type, reviewed.

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Talk nerdy to me. You’re my type.

What about old friend Helvetica, Miss Typography of 1957 (and pretty much every year after)? Coles theorizes that its universality stems from the fact that its “shapes and widths are unusually uniform.” This homogeneity makes it perfect for big display logos but “not as effective for long passages [...]

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At Home In Fantasy’s Nerd-Built Worlds

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In other words, more than the profound lessons on the corrupting influence of power, more than the stirring battle scenes, more even than beloved characters like Frodo and Sam, readers came to Tolkien’s books for the rich, magical world that they built out of his words. Martin has taken this lesson to heart in his [...]

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Explore – Laconic history of the world in a typographic map…

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Explore – Laconic history of the world in a typographic map….