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Monthly Archives: November 2007

Matt Stuart: Design or Luck?

Matt Stuart proves that excellent design is indistinguishable from perfect luck.

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Copyright Creates a Nation of Criminals

John Tehranian calculates his total copyright violation liability: $12.5 million a day.

What better way could there be to create a nation of constant
lawbreakers than to instill in that nation a contempt for its own
laws? And what better way to instill contempt than to hand out rights
so broad that most Americans simply find them absurd?

[Ars Technica]

Ethiopian Codex as Comix

These seem childish or primitive, and then seem ironic and modern, like something from R. Crumb.


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[via Bibliodyssey]

IKEA catalogue, averaged

[Jason Salavon via information aesthetics]

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Moebius Transformations, Explained

Douglas N. Arnold and Jonathan Rogness at University of Minnesota provide an explanation for Moebius transformations that is elegant and clear, with the rare but crucial “ah-ha” moment. I get it.