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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, 2008Tags: computer, history, microsoft, os, pc | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-06-27
June 26, 2008
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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
Tags: design, history, machine, production, theory | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-06-15
June 14, 2008
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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.
Tags: business, clothes, design, diy, furniture, history, market, produce, production | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-05-29
May 29, 2008-
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.
Tags: api, design, dev, firebug, futura, history, javascript, log, typography | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-03-16
March 16, 2008-
(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.
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 | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-02-14
February 14, 2008-
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
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links for 2008-02-12
February 12, 2008-
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.
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 | Comments (0)
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links for 2008-02-11
February 11, 2008-
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.
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 | Comments (0)
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