April 24, 2004
The web is just a hack
And not even a really good one.
Here are a couple of articles about, you know, what, we do here.
with apologies for raiding rawbrick's remaindered links
And one more hack for good measure.
February 27, 2004
The Geek Wedding
An excerpt from an email communication between bride and groom concerning choice of wedding cakes and font-face for invitation:
No comparison, really. Except, of course, in cost ($56)...
But really gorgeous.
I've called a few cake places. I had been imagining a cake that looked like stacked books, but that's custom and gets pricy (at least few hundred more than the $400 budgeted). I've found a place, however, that does an opened-book cake (like the kind that has a cheesy message written on it), for $250 or so. Is it worth being a stickler on this sort of thing?
We can talk more tomorrow...
Kendra
At 03:25 PM 2/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
This is what I'm gonna, what I've been looking for for awhile.
The baskerville punches and matrices were lost shortly after baskerville's death, then rediscoverd much later and given to the Cambridge Press. Many modern typesetters have made digital versions, all more or less altering the spirit of the original to meet current sensibilities. Isaac Moore made a nice imitation for the Fry Foundry not long after Baskerville became famous. Until now, that variation, called Baskerville Old Face (you used to occasionally get it with MS Word) was the closest you could get to the way baskerville's type actually looked on paper 250 years ago.
This guy, Lars, finally has given me exactly what I wanted, an electronic version of exactly what Baskerville was using to print his great folio bible (or at least as close as I'll ever get).
The Baskerville 1757 type http://www.fountain.nu/catalogue/baskerville1757.asp
About the Baskerville Old Face
http://www.linotype.com/10825/baskervilleefoldface-font.html
At linotype you can compare Old Face to other modern baskerville versions. The difference is immediately, glaringly obvious to me. Try comparing it to the other EF Baskervilles.
http://www.linotype.com/117/baskervilleef-family.html
Rob
Oh yeah, we're book people.
February 19, 2004
Effective Information Food
So conversation with The Kenj has identified a need for The Keeper to shorten his posts.
Apparently, The Keeper has unreal expectations for his readers concerning their information gathering behavior in an electronic environment.
In other words, y'all skim.
So, The Keeper'll be brief, or here's a quickie for ya.
From the digest of the ASIST SIGIA listserv, on websites (not this one!) that are the most effective from an Information Architecture perspective:
Apparently, the IA folks love the "usability" and "intuitiveness" of the "interaction."
And of course, as soon as someone recommended a British site for food and cooking recommendations, hilarity ensued.
Anyway, that's all The Keeper has to say about that. I bet The Kenj will even read this post and follow all the links.