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EarlyE: 476 Tracks Covering the History of Electronic Music
http://ubu.com/sound/electronic.html via http://ubu.com/sound/electronic.html …Caio Barros was an undergrad studying composition when he began digitizing his professor’s sizable collection of electronic music CDs in 2009. To increase its chances of mass distribution, he converted the collection into a torrent file. But somehow, that torrent disappeared from cyberspace. Now, for the first time, ubuweb is hosting this…
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Video: Prairie Paradise
Prairie Paradise from Patrick Gannon on Vimeo.
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Lightning at 11,000 Frames Per Second
via RealClearScience via HackerNewsletter.
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Cembalet.com
I’ll be adding information about my experience with the Hohner Cembalet here. Current plans are to run through: • bypassing the footswell switch• cleaning out the case• the “found” state of my Cembalet N• manufacturing “strikers” I’ve pushed a very rough HTML page to Cembalet.com; if you can get past the spartan appearance a few…
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What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium
This is the story of how an unlikely threesome—a girl, a heavy metal band and their fans — pioneered the web at its infancy, bucked the status quo and proved that the Internet wasn’t a fad. It’s 1994. I’m working at Capitol Records in Hollywood, California. via What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona? — Cuepoint — Medium.
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The Development of Balto | Type Supply
Sure, the x-height changed, the spacing changed, the widths changed, the weight changed and the g changed, but overall? It’s pretty close. After looking at this, I started wondering: Why did it take me over six years to finish this!? To answer that question, I ventured deep into the depths of my hard drive… via…
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A Typeface for the Underground – London Reconnections
The typeface was, of course, Johnston Sans and, although Eiichi didn’t know it at the time, it was a typeface created by Edward Johnston and unique to the London Underground. It was this typeface that helped motivate him into becoming a typographer and indirectly this that meant when Colin Banks (one of his course assessors…
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The Typography of Speed — re:form — Medium
Among other very insightful comments, he questioned my decision to bring the terminals [the tip-ends of the ‘S’] all the way around. His point was that it seemed out of character with the style. He was right. So, I went back to trying to figure that out. I opened the terminals back up. Then I…
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Work Habits at Apple – Ole Begemann
Melton: Oh, Christ! Yeah, exactly, I couldn’t do that. I had to do something right away. I said in the article that I wrote for The Loop magazine, when Steve asked you a question you didn’t ramble and whatever you did, you didn’t make up an answer. And if you didn’t know, you said that…
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Spark | Open source IoT toolkit
Spark | Open source IoT toolkit.