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In 1981, Microsoft paid Seattle Software Works for an unauthorized clone of CP/M, and Microsoft licensed this clone to IBM which marketed it as PC-DOS on the first IBM PC in 1981
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links for 2008-07-03
July 02, 2008
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Tags: computer, history, microsoft, os, pc
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links for 2008-06-27
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Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s.
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a prolific architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age”, and his 1971 book “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies”
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Reyner Banham most famous book: Theory and Design in the First Machine Age – (still in print with The MIT Press after forty years), was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change o
June 26, 2008
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Tags: design, history, machine, production, theory
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links for 2008-06-15
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Misericordia is a team of seamstresses who have been working with their hands, spirit and heart since 2002 in Lima – Peru. The hope and the will are within us. To live means to fight. We sew to learn and to discover another World. No longer Utopia.
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grannies to stitch you socks the old-swiss-way.
June 14, 2008
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Tags: business, clothes, design, diy, furniture, history, market, produce, production
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links for 2008-05-29
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An interview of Christopher Burke; the discussion opens with a consideration of the work of Paul Renner, and especially his typeface Futura, then moves on to Christopher Burke’s own work as a type designer.
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the foundry retraced the original alternate characters of the Renner’s early sketches for the Futura.
May 29, 2008
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Tags: api, design, dev, firebug, futura, history, javascript, log, typography
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links for 2008-03-16
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(tags: geometry typography)
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(tags: explosion photography)
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nice resource of Monospaced fonts for displaying code – I finally selected the Profont for my own use in TextWrangler, seems like an improved version Monaco.
March 16, 2008
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Tags: activism, analysis, author, brain, censor, code, coding, color, comparison, consciousness, content, cup, design, drawing, explosion, font, frame, future, geometry, GUI, history, icon, interface, mapping, network, noodle, photography, production, resource, science, talk, ted, time, tools, tradition, typography, web2.0
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links for 2008-02-14
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designed by Stanley Morison (MonoType) in 1931 for the british newspaper The Time, based on Plantin
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Designed in 1957 by Max Miedinger (Haas Type Foundry) to compete with Akzidenz Grotesk
February 14, 2008
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Tags: context, font, history, typography, wikipedia
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links for 2008-02-12
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seems to be a nice alternative to image backgrounds to produce gradient
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analyzes your music collection and creates a short audio signature to represent who you are and what you listen to – by Jason Freeman
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nice indication of the windows size from the start; the content does not need any introduction anymore.
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Thisandagain is the online personal space of Andrew Sliwinski, a User Experience Strategist, Designer, and Technologist living and working near Detroit, MI.
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nice interface which use black rectangle; it would be nice if the size were relative(tags: portfolio graphicdesign)
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Peter Saville did a very nice set of boxes for audio cassettes back in the days; it looks like book binding
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Brad Troemel did a serie of picture, where the subject is reframed
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Easily view images in a directory tree—without actually clicking through to every image
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An architectural icon; Battersea Power Station in London is a defunct power station that was the first in a series of large coal-fired electrical generating facilities
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A bastion of the architectural establishment in early 20th century Britain
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a group on flickr collecting pictures from architect Gilbert Scott
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some nice types and book covers
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Damien Hirst at the launch of ‘In the darkest hour there may be light’, his personal art collection at the Serpentine Gallery(tags: art collection)
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I traded one red paperclip for a house.
February 12, 2008
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Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, analysis, architecture, art, audio, blog, books, cassette, code, collection, color, creative, css, design, editorial, electronic_presence, exchange, extensions, filemanager, filesystem, firefox, flickr, gradient, graphicdesign, history, identity, image, image_on_the_fly, interface, itunes, london, marketing, meme, music, netart, netherlands, photography, picture, plugin, portfolio, statistics, trade, typography, uk, urban, usability, web, webdesign
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links for 2008-02-11
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Tommi found a couple of nice trick on wordpress this weekend; this one is naked wordpress theme so that it’s easier and faster to kick off a custom theme design.
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via Tommi (again) – let’s you replace any html text by a flash file generated on the fly which let’s you use custom not standard typefaces…
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nice writing about a Moleskine competitor
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Via Markus – another rant against FaceBook after the one send by Adriana, makes me wonder why not to start a kind of workshop to teach people how to get the same thing as FaceBook with their own tools and intelligence
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it seems like electricity is magic!
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Laxton fields seems to be the last common land in the UK after the enclosure; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
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This term marked the end of the Common Land, the open field system in the UK
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WordPress can displace or pass over one or more initial posts which would normally be collected by your query through the use of the offset parameter.
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to check; it seems to crash with WP2.3.3 but it might be just a problem of header
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another Flash text replacer for WordPress
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Father of the modern Chemistry; he established that matter cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged (Conservation of mass Law). This evening, Amandine used it very nicely to explain her work.
February 11, 2008
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Tags: article, chemistry, common, custom_query, development, electricity, flash, flickr, font, fonts, hardware, history, internet, life_hack, light, map, moleskine, neon, networking, php, plugin, politics, privacy, reference, self_organisation, sifr, sketchbook, social, theme, typography, webdesign, wikipedia, wordpress
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