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Have a Sexy Little Halloween →
the understatement: Roboto vs. Helvetica →
understatementblog:
Google announced the mouthful known as “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich” today. The first bullet point of their presentation was a new system-wide font, Roboto. John Gruber quickly pointed out what had caught my eye as well: Roboto sure looks a lot like Helvetica, the typeface so famous they
September 2011
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Right now this very scene is being repeated in...
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: You guys are on Macs now?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Yeah, we're slowly switching over. But we still use PowerPoint.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Well, we brought our portion of the deck in PDF, think we can import that?
BARISTA: TRIPLE GRANDE NON-FAT LATTE FOR BILL? BILL?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Yeah, not sure how to do that. Do you have a thumb drive?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Sure, let me check my bag
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: Oh, hey guys. How's it going.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Good. Wait, should we just present the deck off your laptop?
BARISTA: VENTI PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE FOR ANNA? ANNA? AND A GRANDE COFFEE FRAPPUCINO FOR MARIO? MARIO?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Sure, I mean I guess we could do that. Are you driving or am I driving?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: The deck?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Yeah, the deck.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: Whatever, I'm fine. Let's use my machine.
BARISTA: GRANDE NON-FAT DECAF VANILLA ICED LATTE FOR ELIZABETH?
Git Is Simpler Than You Think
I’ve often been amused by observing one person try to explain Git to another. Everybody (well, not *everybody*) agrees that it’s a better version control system — but the lack of clear conceptual language is a huge barrier to entry.
nfarina:
Git’s overloaded, confusing language is absolutely the only part of it that sucks. They meant well. They chose words that sound familiar,...
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Jay-Z’s Decoded, A Memoir | Brain Pickings
New Twitter's Golden Spiral
I’ve seen this image floating around in relation to the recent redesign of twitter.
But I think the shipped something else. I can get the golden spiral to overlay in the same way. My twitter looks more like this:
So what happened?
Chili dog! (@ Roanoke Park Place Tavern) http://4sq.com/6ZY9DG
Yes! Just found a Twizzler in the bottom of @wabiwasabi’s hobgoblin.
Dave Niehaus died today. http://seati.ms/bQowx7
We got a veggie box from full circle farms. I just roasted Yukon Golds in the duck fat we had from last week.
Fistfuls of Mercy @ Showbox at The Market http://instagr.am/p/NNI8/
Step 43. Jet ski across the Pacific Ocean http://bit.ly/9F54Wm
I’m at Showbox at The Market w/ @mattgmyer. http://4sq.com/3TayEO
Would you say that’s a ukulele? @ Showbox at The Market http://instagr.am/p/NK19/
Fistfuls of Mercy (soon) @ Showbox at The Market http://instagr.am/p/NJYz/
Watching TiVo’d commercials and cutting my pork chop with a spoon. Hashtag: doing it wrong
RT @RavenRyder: @Canlis @Bcanlis #canlismenus literally 50 feet away from the grave as @wodclub found it. Talked to him as he got into h …
Had a great time at the Blue Truck Pop-up dinner. Looking forward to the truck. Thanks @merryweather2u!
RT @cohitre: possibly my favorite reddit comment ever: http://bit.ly/acDD50
Lease (@ Roanoke Park Place Tavern) http://4sq.com/6ZY9DG
Premature tweet, that last one. There’s a rock band here to celebrate the new lease.