Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Typography.com compares and contrasts the new line of UK coinage with the new U.S. five dollar bill. The implication that for $525 million and 2,500 people, the U.S. is getting a worse deal than British public are ignores the fact that the the Royal Mint got the benefit of approximately 500 entrants (per the Royal Mint's ( Read more... )

A few days later than I wanted to put this together, but so it goes.

• Finding WWII aircraft crash sites in the Himalayas, with recovery to follow. [1]
• What makes a perfect president: Media and politics in creating the presidency as an American myth [1]
• The suit from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill Case may get closure before the Supreme Court
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The fourth Krispy Kreme Challenge, NC State's growing tradition, was yesterday. Bell Tower to Krispy Kreme, eat a dozen donuts, then run back (four miles) in an hour. The prize? A green t-shirt and money raised for the NC Children's Hospital.
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My Sunday reading habit is to work through the N&O in print and Washington Post and New York Times. Between Twitter, email newsletters and RSS feeds from the later two publications, I'll easily open about 20 browser tabs.
It struck me this morning that I was going to have a lot of material and material to write up from yesterday's NC Science ( Read more... )

Khoi Vinh on trying to hold onto (or worse, recapture) "the cool:"

Any time a media outlet publicly declares its intention to reach a younger demographic, chances are good that the results will make me cringe.

He's talking about NPR's Bryant Park Project, and how surprising it is that it doesn't include "jargon, zany sound effects or comedic ( Read more... )

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Take a book name, combine with band name. Here's what I came up with in a few minutes:

• Snow Patrol Crash
• The Hunt for Simply Red October
• Barry White Oleander
• About a Badly Drawn Boy
• Cat on a Hot Hot Heat Roof

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