Great read. I wish it loaded faster, without the retina resolution images.
The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)
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#52I love this.
As nerdy as it is, it is also an interesting historical look on how certain things in society/culture have a life that is hidden in plain view and quietly goes on. It is an interesting reflection on many things in life.
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#53I started reading this article and thought to myself "Author is just talking about Leroy and calling it Gorton for some reason."
Sure enough. I learned a lot of history from this wonderful piece. And I still have the Leroy device I used in the 70s.
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#54> Carve something into plastic, on the other hand, and it can survive decades. Substitute plastic for metal, and you just turned decades into centuries. "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."
I've been saying for years that future archaeologists will wonder at these mysterious emblems they dig up, generally associated with a large deposit of what was once highly refined iron, aluminium and copper. About half a metre wide and 11cm high, made of incredibly durable plastic obviously intended to last for centuries, if not millenia. And they'll puzzle over the inscriptions, "G809 BGG", "R420 BRL", "RFS 131Y",…
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#55> Carve something into plastic, on the other hand, and it can survive decades. Substitute plastic for metal, and you just turned decades into centuries. "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."
I've been saying for years that future archaeologists will wonder at these mysterious emblems they dig up, generally associated with a large deposit of what was once highly refined iron, aluminium and copper. About half a metre wide and 11cm high, made of incredibly durable plastic obviously intended to last for centuries, if not millenia. And they'll puzzle over the inscriptions, "G809 BGG", "R420 BRL", "RFS 131Y",…
"We believe they served some kind of religious purpose."
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is definitely a "Macbook Pro on a wooden table at a coffee shop, owner with tattoos and stylish facial hair" kind of website
Yea, but if I bought coffee table books and this was printed by Taschen, I'd buy it. That typeface is so familiar. One imagines a great big red "reset" up in the clouds, benevolent creator pondering pressing, this is definitely the font on the button. I can smell machine oil, hear 50hz hum just looking at these labels.
> hear 50hz
100Hz, actually…
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
We use "AA AA 1234" or variations of that, so the examples did not register as license plates at all. Interesting.
Regardless of the content, what other 50x11cm mass produced metal signs are there? I was thinking street name signs, before reading the examples.
In the UK they're incredibly high quality perspex, to the extent that if you need to make up some small HV insulators that won't be subjected to a lot of mechanical stress you could do worse than chop up some old numberplates.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been saying for years that future archaeologists will wonder at these mysterious emblems they dig up, generally associated with a large deposit of what was once highly refined iron, aluminium and copper. About half a metre wide and 11cm high, made of incredibly durable plastic obviously intended to last for centuries, if not millenia. And they'll puzzle over the inscriptions, "G809 BGG", "R420 BRL", "RFS 131Y",…
"We believe they served some kind of religious purpose."
I mean, ...
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's from the mistborn series by brandon sanderson. fun books. would make a great big budget TV series someday
Mistborn was supposedly picked up for film.
Picked up by Apple, of all places, and Brandon finished the first draft of the screenplay last week.
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#60> Carve something into plastic, on the other hand, and it can survive decades. Substitute plastic for metal, and you just turned decades into centuries. "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted."
You can buy rocks engraved with "Nothing Is Written In Stone".
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nothing+is+written+in+stone&ia=ima...