Check out Kalin Varbanov‘s Glagolitic Alphabet Anatomy, a geometric, sans-serif re-imagining of Glagolitic, one of the oldest Slavic alphabets.
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Darwin: 0; Dvorak: 1
Evolving a better keyboard layout:
…the evolutionary algorithm couldn’t produce a layout that could beat the Dvorak layout that gets seeded into the final all-star round.
The Dvorak keyboard layout must be an example of intelligent design.
Periodic Table of Typefaces
What’s better than a Periodic Table of Europeans? Why, A Periodic Table of Typefaces, of course:
(Via Holly.)
Staple/unstaple
I wonder how long before something like staple/unstaple gets integrated into a file-sharing protocol:
If [the copyright holder] wants to prove that Bob is violating the DMCA, she must violate the DMCA herself…
Another genetic map
Another genetic map of Europe. It won’t be long before we can pinpoint a person’s ancestry down to an individual village using science like this.
Unicode in five minutes
Someone over at Linden Labs is a bigger Unicode geek than me. And that’s really saying something.
Who says print is dead?
Print media may have already crossed the Rubicon in its march past digital delivery towards obsolescence. But these interesting blog posts from 2008 collected into a 1,000-copy run of a print newspaper provide a nice counterpoint to the San Francisco Chronicle’s potential closure.
Just because it’s a command line tool…
…doesn’t mean the interface has to suck: ways in which git makes the opposite of sense.
Newsflash
Last.fm: “Techcrunch are full of shit.”
In other breaking headlines today, the sky is blue, water is wet, and this is made from people.
Spiros in Inkscape
Inkscape 0.47 and later will support curve editing via Raph Levien’s vastly superior Spiro curves:
I round-tripped through FontForge when I drew the Seal of Rassilon for a recent t-shirt design, just so I could use spiros to do it:
Achieving nearly perfectly tangent and parallel curves using spiros is trivial, compared the the fragile finickiness of Béziers.