The awesome design is by Hanna de Vries, from an idea of mine (actually I misread “hardcore” on someone’s hoody…). Now I’m going to try to put it on a t-shirt — if anyone local has experience or tips I’d love to hear ‘em.
If you don’t know what “goatse” is, don’t bother reading on.
If you do know, then be reassured: the photograph after the fold is only revolting by association. It’s an advertisement for the “Over het IJ festival”, which just happens to put some abstract design elements in a familiar configuration.
I went today to pick up tickets for a weekend trip to Paris (for the PALMYR workshop). We’re going by train; if you make an internet booking, you go to the NS office and a machine prints your tickets for you. It’s a touchscreen system — here’s a shot of the moment when you enter [...]
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
It’s an awfully simple rule: Don’t put words (of more than one letter) in pure math mode. This should be carved into the monitor of every mathematician and (particularly) computer scientist who ever wrote a paper in LaTeX. Don’t use math mode for words. Don’t (don’t you dare) use math mode for italics.
Why not?
The spacing [...]
Quick links to a week’s worth of browsing:
Design: flowerlike lightbulb unfurls
as it warms up. [via sensory impact]
Craziness: every year two Greek monasteries
bombard each other with fireworks. [via
Nemo Ramjet]
Life/art mutual imitation: A British explorer disappears in the Amazon jungle, while looking
for a lost city. Attempts to find his remains, and the city he searched for, are [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2005
The short version: to use the WC at Amersfoort Station, you call an 0900 number that charges you and opens the door. Confused? So was I.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
I’m really not sure what to think about this. A List Apart has just redesigned their website, and it looks really nice. They’re now offering a bunch of merchandise, including this slightly bizarre t-shirt. The disturbing thing is that the blurb doesn’t even hint at the weirdness, and so I’m left wondering, did they just [...]
I guess almost everybody who reads this blog also reads Boing Boing (Hi Mum!). But you might not have noticed the papercraft dragon they posted a week or so ago, or you might have thought “That’s kinda cool” and then moved on in your busy and exciting lives. If you skipped it, or missed it, [...]
A robotic talent show! What could be cooler! Some of this stuff looks really fun… Headsup from Erik.
The Dutch design studio OOOMS, based in Eindhoven, have some pretty damn cool stuff. I mean cool as in strange cool. Recommended picks: the anti-gravity moonwalk experience, hollow land Dutch souvenirs (now you too can own a replica of a hole in the ground somewhere in the Netherlands), and gold-plated staples.