Typeface Mechanics: 001
Our conscious minds want to draw one shape, but our eyes need to see another. Part of typeface design is managing this eternal friction between logic and optics. It’s always there, no matter the style.
YouTube Now Defaults to HTML5
Flash’s importance to YouTube has been dwindling for some time. Now Adobe’s video solution is one step closer to banishment from the world’s most popular video site.
Nine Tips for Organizing your Desk
Nine Tips for Organizing your Desk
It’s a new year and you’ve begun with the best of intentions to be more effective at work. One way to ensure you keep your resolution is to make your desk a more productive place.
The Best Filet Mignon Recipe Ever
This restaurant style filet mignon is the best steak you’ve put anywhere near your face. Disclaimer: The reason this dish is so amazing is due mostly in part to having the very best, most fresh ingredients possible. That means high grade salt, it means pepper ground right in front of you by a pepper mill. It means fresh herbs and it means real butter. The good news is that these are all things you should already have in your house. Read More
How Net Neutrality Works
The term “Net Neutrality” is very benign and even sounds playful or simple. It’s not. The bottom line is that without it, your ISP can throttle your network connection for any reason they want.
Here’s a chart-like chart on how Net Neutrality works.
Mac vs. PC in 3 charts
via Fortune.com
Mac sales are up. PC sales are down. And in that shrinking market, Apple takes the lion’s share of the profits. Tim Cook reported Tuesday that Mac sales grew almost 18% year over year in the June quarter while the rest of the PC market shrank by nearly 2%.
And the Mac is the most profitable PC on the market. By far. “Indeed,” writes Asymco‘s Horace Dediu, “it’s more profitable than all the other vendors put together.”