By the way, you should really go watch the new Star Trek (Beyond) — a film with much-needed optimism, focussed on unity and going beyond our reptillian instincts of agression, fear and violence. McCoy and Spock’s characters are at their best and I feel the story arc is almost perfect.
The film was particularly poignant given the tragic death of Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov, and Leonard Nimoy’s passing last year.
A basic income is needed for each human being on Earth.
Nice typeface designed for use in letterpress printing. Found via Kevin Simler.
Here’s a simple Google Sites template made to help anyone publish a portfolio of work online. A template for a résumé is also included in the about page.
The impact of an idea depends on how well it is executed.
Open source argument analysis platform for critical thinking using argument maps. Love the design that uses American Typewriter.
From The Galileo Project website’s page on Galileo’s drawings of sunspots: In 1612 during the summer months, Galileo made a series of sunspot observations which were published in Istoria e Dimostrazioni Intorno Alle Macchie Solari e Loro Accidenti Rome (History and Demonstrations Concerning Sunspots and their Properties, published 1613). Because these observations were made at appoximately the same time of day, the motion of the spots across the Sun can easily be seen.
…continueFan-made music video using Morrissey’s song Istanbul from the album World Peace Is None of Your Business using visuals from two of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s films: Uzak and Three Monkeys.
Just a note that Pasta Clock (al dente, not al mush) now works on browsers without Adobe Flash installed. Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a way for the alarm sound to play on iOS, so I use the default iPhone timer when I can find my phone 
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‘LICEcap’ is an odd name, but it works well.
Nethack is certainly one of the greatest games you will ever play.
It would be nice to be able to download the Adobe XD preview without signing up for an Adobe ID.
Today is the first day of the world’s largest mission-driven open source conference, hosted at the UN here in NYC.
Jenifer Tidwell:
So, it’s possible to be seen as both a designer and a coder. But it requires very, very careful management of your personal brand. Set expectations clearly, and defend your personal boundaries — if you’re doing more coding than you like, you’ll have to decide when and how to push back or ask for more design responsibility.
Yonatan Zunder:
Hidden inside the network protocol that powers the Internet is a system designed to fight a nuclear war, even if Washington were destroyed by a surprise Soviet attack. Today, it mostly powers cat videos.
Ferns in spring in Inwood Hill Park, New York City, May 2016. After eleven years apart, hypertexthero.com (design) and simongriffee.com (photography) were combined into one — this — website. If you came here looking for photographs, don’t worry, those are not going away and regular entries depicting the streets of New York will resume shortly right here in the Notebook (the front page). A mailing list is still available for my six faithful subscribers, as is an RSS syndication feed, and you can now browse content by keyword, time, location and the randomness of life thanks to Hugo’s wonderful Taxonomies system.
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