Apparently my family don’t understand anything I write on this blog any more. This post isn’t going to help. The good news is, I’ve got a bundle of photos from Stockholm which I hope to put up sometime over the weekend. Travels in Scandinavia, that’s not geeky at all, right?
This, on the other hand, is.
From a Pharyngula post I learn that the Museum of Jurassic Technology has a website. Magnificent.
(A few years ago I picked up Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, about the MJT and its proprietor, in a fit of whimsy and a second-hand bookstore. Highly recommended.)
André Miede’s Classic Thesis LaTeX style is a thing of beauty.
Things to like about it:
It’s damn elegant. It’s inspired by Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, which remains the most eloquent and convincing argument for attention to typography I’ve ever read. Namecheck of the booktabs documentation (on why the tables don’t have vertical lines), which I’ve also [...]
I went into Scheltema this morning. I wasn’t even looking for a book… but I got sidetracked (it’s a five-storey bookstore, in retrospect it was inevitable). I got caught by this.
That’s Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. (It’s actually “Volume 1″ of “The Complete…”, projected to run to five volumes, which to my mind [...]
An old friend of mine has a new website, showing her awesome handmade jewellery.
You might also like to trot over to my sister’s site, aSpire Arts, and check out her weavings. Don’t bother trying to contact her though, she’s in Mongolia for a few months.
Shaun Tan’s The Arrival (which I have raved about before) has won a Locus Award: for best Art Book. Well-deserved, I must say (his website has images from the book, they’re even more beautiful full-size on the page).
Now go find it and read it. Look at it. Whatever you do with a wordless story-in-pictures. ‘Enjoy’ [...]
I was looking for an octopus (it’s a long story) when I stumbled upon the complete plates of Ernst Haeckel’s 1904 Kunstformen der Natur. They’re beautiful.
(The octopus I was looking for is featured in the BibliOdyssey book, and turns out not to be by Haeckel at all. It’s here, along with an enormous number of [...]