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“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

Design is best from small teams
An interview with type designer Jos Buivenga
Teaching Typography in Buenos Aires
Resist Redesign
Cyan, The Color of Timeless Marketing
More on creative commons and copyright
Small Press Spotlight: C. M. Mayo
Are you your bookshelf?
Even though you know they’re heartless [...]

“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

Getty Images Bought by Hellman & Friedman
Online reading counts too
Amsterdam, world book capital
Ways to get your magazine article queries accepted
Humans nearly went extinct 70,000 years ago
Buy your own New York subway map for only$299
Royals reduced to vanity publishing

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“If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….” – William Butler Yeats

Judging books by their covers
On Choosing Type
History out, celebrities in
61% of historians rate the Bush presidency worst ever
Backlash against ABC News
Stinehour Press closing
World Book and Copyright Day

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Friday roundup”Words do inspire, words do help people get [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Banning English
Ikea snubbing Danes?
Speikermann: “It’s about bloody time”
Back-of-the-head book covers
Canada’s oldest bookstore closes
Puffin Classics redesigned
Turn Photoshop Layers On/Off in InDesign
5 blogging lessons
In defense of big ideas in fiction

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Black man accosts crowd, demands change
Julio Cortázar, le cronope engagé
Best-seller most-stolen books list
Why we remember (sort of) Mr. Boycott
A book of wonders

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Friday roundup”Words do inspire, words do help people get involved, words do help members of Congress get into pow…Friday RoundupFresh links
what’s virtually new

Why are book editors [...]

Fresh links
what’s virtually new

Why are book editors so bad at spotting fake memoirs?
Made-up memoirs noone found suspicious
Attention, memoir fabulists

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Black man accosts crowd, demands change
Julio Cortázar, le cronope engag�…Friday [...]

Fresh links
what’s virtually new

How Link Journalism Could Have Transformed The New York Times Reporting On McCain Ethics
Seamus Heaney On Dante, Eliot, And Mandelstam
Blogging like Fidel
Typefaces of the world’s metros
Antonin Artaud video
People in order

Link love
recently linking in

Color Correction in Photoshop
Huge Internet Following
Drop It Like It’s Art: Diamond Sutra
Shameless, we know …

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If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which …. – William Butler Yeats

A reviewer’s rant: too many books
The case for copy editing
WordPress 2.5 preview
Screenshots of Yahoo Buzz, a Digg competitor
Tolkien heirs sue Lord of the Rings studio for $150m
POTUS candidates and the visual arts
Plagiarism and MLK
Pourquoi Woody Allen utilise depuis (presque) toujours [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which …. – William Butler Yeats

Languages evolve in sudden leaps
Is content really king?
935 lies of GWB
Rayuel-o-matic Digital Universal
The Age of American Unreason
Poster Links

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An exchange about words as action and the power of words
CLINTON: Words are not actions. And as beautifully presented and passionately [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Does print really have a monopoly on literary criticism?
What’s hurting newspapers
Bookstores - a photoset on Flickr
Are You a Domain Elitist?
The Gusher Awards for Achievement in Hyperbole
Discovering how to discover
Three interesting language maps
Obama posters
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

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“For months Rudy Giuliani was the Republican frontrunner. [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Mysteries of Amazon Sales Rank
Steve Jobs: Nobody reads
Gethuman.com is a database of codes for reaching human beings at corporate customer service numbers
Quebecor Files for Bankruptcy
Ruth Kedar on Designing the Google Logo
10 Winning Habits of the Frequently Published
Low-cost or free stock photo [...]

Sorry I’ve fallen behind in answering e-mail and comments. I’ll try to catch up this weekend — according to the weather forecasts it will be a good one for staying inside. — tom
If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Interview with Walter Mosley
20 Things You Didn’t [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Watermarking CDs
Download Rudolf Koch tribute fonts (text in German)
Will Peggy Sue get published?
The Fugitive Beauties of Hexandria
Style police (I need to print some of these decals to use at work)

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If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Is dumbing down the problem for book reviews?
Copyright law not reviewed
Junker on Lish
Happy 100th, Simone de Beauvoir … a quiz … and arguing about her butt (in French)
Planet earth reading challenge
Do books matter?
And is it really a good idea to store [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Getting rid of books
Getting rid of book reviews (at the Chicago Sun-Times)
Is Google your competition?
A demonstration of how to fake an authoritative voice about graphic design despite not understanding the subject

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“I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

The top plagarisms of 2007
Selecting Pantone Libraries with Adobe Illustrator
Converting Color Profiles with Adobe InDesign
What Google knols can teach you about Google’s philosophy
Orhan Pamuk between two worlds
The official porn of France

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Friday roundup”Words do inspire, words [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Problems with “do follow”
Understanding web design
Typographic gifts
Andy Ross resigns from Cody’s Bookstore
The perfume of libraries (via Maud Newton)
More fun with machine translation

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We are in a fragmenting culture, where our certainties of even a few decades ago are questioned and [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Another “book tours are dead” article
Words given wings
Reviewing the academics (via Maud Newton)
More Faint Praise (my take here)
Susan Sontag Prize for Translation
Tourist Remover
Google resurrects the dead (via Search Engine Land)
Old media still not getting new media

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“Since 2001, employment in [...]

If Folly link with Elegance no man knows which is which ….
– William Butler Yeats

Type specimen book covers
Rules for the long ess
Various takes on Kindle in case, unlike me, you care
International copyright on the web
How to adjust the google map marker
How to configure “open all” in Firefox to not close existing tabs and how [...]

A week of landmarks and landmines.

Weaving text in Illustrator
CSS style generator
Lost: translation
Since when is there anything romantic about Helvetica?
An absurd ranking of “public intellectuals”
Review a book and have five trees planted
Picador goes paper
Electronic paper
The graying of American fiction
More on rejection
23 actionable lessons from eye-tracking studies (webwork)
Perils of translation
The ephemera society
How to be ugly
Nonsense about “why [...]