Linotype Really No. 2
unburyingthelead sez: Via my job, this blog, and this blog, I’m starting to get into typography. On a personal level.
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Newly appointed Chief Kuhnian Disruptive Officer at Joybricks. Former corporate minesweeper. Music lover, painter, aspiring filmmaker some day
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Virtual Alice
—via John Coulthart, Feuilleton
John sez: No, I didn’t go searching for this, I had my fill of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland last month. The British Library website is a lot more amenable than it used to be for the casual browser, and one of its newer sections is a small collection of what they call virtual books which enable you to leaf through some of their exclusive volumes. The pages above are from the original handwritten manuscript, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, from which the printed book was later adapted.
![Dear Mr Beck [PDF, 4 Mb download]
h/t Groklaw](http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksr0a2VKhs1qz8hy0o1_500.jpg)
Dr Jekyll et Sister Hyde!
—via lacontessa sez: It’s probably utter crap, but I’m watching this on telly right now with the sound turned down and it’s really fun…
NIN Fans Demand Liz Cheney Apologize for Trent Reznor "Pathetic" Comment
vruz: in case you somehow stiill liked Liz Cheney, not only she defends the indefensible, in the process making herself an accomplice of her father’s wrongdoings, she’s also certifiably uncool and persona non-grata: she knows shit about music. heavy metal, Liz, really? I get it, the only real authority is the one granted by God almighty to representatives of the Cheney and Bush clans. “call me Princess Liz.” fuck you idiot, accomplice of war criminals.
—via twentyfourbit:
As previously reported, NIN’s Trent Reznor, Rage’s Tom Morello, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, the Roots, Rise Against, Billy Bragg, Jackson Browne, and other famous musicians have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo and released a string of statements condemning the use of music for torture at Gitmo. Well, it looks like the debate is heating up a bit:
Debra Burlingame, director of Keep America Safe, a political organization co-founded by Liz Cheney that focuses “on issues like troop levels, missile defense, detainees, and interrogation,” called Reznor and company’s political stand “pathetic,” telling the Washington Times:
It’s almost laughable to think that heavy metal bands like Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine have a moral authority on national security issues.
They’re worried about torture of hard-core terrorists? This is really something I would expect to read in the Onion.
Gene Vincent — Spaceship to Mars (1962)
vruz: space era rockabilly: mars, tentacles and all.
via lacontessa:I heard this on the radio earlier this week and I’ve been singing it ever since. It’s silly and quite adorable and I now have a bit of a thing for Gene Vincent… To the youtubes!
Jon Stewart pulls a full Glenn Beck
“Take a look, if you will, at what your appendix is connected to. I mean: It’s all there! Your appendix is connected to your large intestine, which is connected to your small intestine, which is something Karl Marx had. That doesn’t seem suspicious? Because what is the small intestine connected to? Oh, I don’t know… the stomach? Which is where acorns would go if you ate them? ACORNS?! Where have we heard that name before?!”
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The UN World Food Programme are looking for vloggers to take part in their international video competition entitled Hungerbytes!
—via @documentally
They hold the competition every year in partnership with Youtube. It’s open to all but you have to be 18 to claim the prize of a trip into the field to witness the work that’s being done to help chronically hungry people. (Last year 3 girls travelled to Ethiopia and visited one of the agency’s largest food assistance operations.
If you feel you can create a hard hitting, provocative youtube video that makes people think about hunger issues, check out the information at: Hungerbytes! to enter.
This year, for the first time ever, the number of chronically hungry people crossed the 1 billion marker. The chronically hungry have stunted growth of both the body and the mind. Many will die.
If you don’t feel like entering why not just spread the word? I think this is a great use of social media to raise awareness of Hungerbytes! and ultimately, hopefully change lives for the better.
The Youtube channel with submitted videos can be found here: Hungerbytes! Youtube
Venezuela bans violent videogames: a first-person guest essay
by Guido Nuñez Mujica via @XeniJardin
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)
—via branduponthebrain:oneafter909:
