Overwhelmed by the luxuriant curls of the hair of these women advertising a salad oil. From https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f9d3401b-b9df-4585-b8c6-7d4d1cc00360/
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One of my favourite moments from my Phoenix days was working the helpdesk as a grad student. Answering actual phones to help people with any computing problem. One day a history person rang up and wanted help with finding words in their document (in E). Their regular expression question i had to look up in the manual, but i did, and when we found a solution, they ended the call with "aren't regular expressions just wonderful?". Yes, yes they are. Regular Expressions are wonderful.
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I woke up and realised that the Zed Reference Manual (the Cambridge Phoenix line editor that i used (not my daily driver)) should be in the Internet Archive. So now it is:
https://archive.org/details/zed-reference-manual
I still have a fondness for this editor. It's interesting from an alternate-history "what if Unix didn't win?", except that this alternate-history did happen. It streamed but you could also go backwards, a bit; which made it considerably easier to use than sed(1).
[#]Zed #Phoenix #TextEditor
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Enjoy, at least for a few moments, a fresh Wikipedia page for notable British type designer Freda Sack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freda_Sack
[#]TheFoundryTypes #TypeDesigners #TypeDesign
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I co-opted the typewriter into making another Artist Trading Card.
[#]ArtistTradingCard
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Oh, guess which british female type designer doesn't have a Wikipedia page? Freda Sack. sigh
I don't have the energy to create one right now. It's like half a day to make a decent page, and then it'll get deleted immediately as not-notable.
[#]Letraset
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I feel like Rubylith's wikipedia page is slanted too much towards the production of microprocessors in the 1970s, and not enough slant towards making magazine covers and punk-rock posters in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubylith
Would someone with graphic arts expertise care to step in?
(oh, just re-discovered the interview with typeface designer Freda Sack where she describes specifically using Rubylith, so that's going in https://uniteditions.com/blogs/news/letraset-interview-freda-sack [edit: now linked])
[#]rubylith #wikipedia
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🚨 Emergency Poet! 🚨
https://leslietate.com/2019/04/15/6903/
I just came across this: Deborah Alma, a qualified poet accompanied by Nurse Verse, dispenses healing poetry from a vintage ambulance
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I have reached the "the /b can have a little kern, as a treat" stage of my font.
[#]kerning
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I have found a bottle of white wine and Wrath of the Titans on the telly.
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Full-size print as above. Printed on the gold side of the cardboard for a chocolate advent calendar.
[#]linocut
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My first Artist Trading Card. Pretty pleased with it. A detail from a recent, slightly larger, linocut. Still loving the kitchen lino.
[#]linocut #atc #ArtistTradingCard
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When Orbital won the Booker prize there was a lot of talk about it being "the first winner set in space", as if they were trying to avoid saying "Sci-Fi novel" (because Sci-Fi is forbidden in literary circles). Now i've read it, i can say that it is a Sci-Fi novel; in particular because there is a crewed moon mission.
That's also the reason i read one "speculative fiction" novel last year. It's Oryx and Crake. Speculative fiction is when Margaret Atwood writes a Sci-Fi novel.
[#]bookstodon #scifi
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Because i was trying to find a copy of Virginia Woolf's essay "a room of one's own", i've been reading the contents of her essay collections. I think she would've like social media. Her posts, essays, are all like: "why i like to write", "i had chips and saw a play in town", "why is there a lot of drama with %person i have never heard of%", "i had to sit next to someone on a train and i didn't like it".
[#]VirginiaWoolf
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I'm practising my sketching for a thing. Here are two, radically different, interpretations of what might be called "3 people in a forest".
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Remind me, the awk package manager is called what?
[#]awk
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find another slightly annoying mistake in a book (in a Booker prize-winning novel). A chap is redrafting the report on a typewriter and "sticks a fresh sheet in the ribbon". And... that's just not how typewriters work.
[#]typewriter
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This screenshot from a BBC video encapsulates, to me, everything that is wonderful about Great Britain. I didn't watch the video, but i would be disappointed if this chap isn't called Ivor and working for the Amalgamated Traffic Cone Board.
[#]A465 #TrafficCone
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Got a stacking in-tray for my somewhat messy desk. It has transformed my messy stack into a messy tower of trays. I love it!
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Maybe I could sell it to an American to hold an egg (it's not an eggcup, but they, having never seen one, would never know)
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