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Technology Review: A Note on the Type

Web font standards via Erik Speikermann

Shifting The World To 100 Percent Clean, Renewable Energy As Early As 2030: Here Are The Numbers

“Most of the technology needed to shift the world from fossil fuel to clean, renewable energy already exists. Implementing that technology requires overcoming obstacles in planning and politics, but doing so could result in a 30 percent decrease in global power demand, say Stanford civil and environmental engineering Professor Mark Z. Jacobson and University of California-Davis researcher Mark Delucchi.”

Design USA - Contemporary Innovation at the National Design Museum

“Design USA: Contemporary Innovation commemorates the tenth anniversary of the National Design Awards and showcases the winners recognized during the first decade. In addition to honoring Lifetime Achievement and Design Mind winners, the exhibition is organized according to five themes that are fundamental to the various disciplines: CRAFT,EXPERIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MATERIALS, and METHOD. The objects in the exhibition represent a particularly exciting period of American design that witnessed major shifts in the design profession: staggering advances in digital technology, new materials, and the advent of global partnerships. Through the five thematic lenses, Design USA demonstrates how these developments are reshaping our definition of design, focusing on American innovation and the directions in which design is headed as we move through the new century. With a multifaceted, interactive exhibition designed by 2006 Communication Design Award winner 2×4, Design USA also marks a new chapter in the Museum’s efforts to enrich the visitors’ experience in the galleries.”

On view October 16, 2009–April 4, 2010

Shepard Fairey Admits Using Other Photo for ‘Hope’ Poster

Big surprise. He lied.

Social Entrepreneurship Gains Ground at Business Schools

Combat video with a DSLR

“Independent filmmaker Danfung Dennis was embedded with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Company, as they were dropped 18 km behind enemy lines to seize a key bridge. Within a few hours of landing, fierce fighting erupted and continued for the next three days…”

U.S. Report Links Smoking Bans and Heart Health

“Even a small amount of exposure to secondhand smoke can increase in blood clotting, constrict blood vessels and can cause a heart attack,” said Dr. Neal L. Benowitz, a professor of medicine,psychiatry, and biopharmaceutical sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and a member of the panel. “Short-term exposure can make a big difference.”

“For places in the country that don’t have smoking bans,” Dr. Benowitz added, “smoking bans need to be put in place as quickly as possible. The longer we wait, the more disease we are accepting.”

Upstate Girls - an open ended documentary project started by Brenda Ann Kenneally

Ironic Sans: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz

The all caps with no C, G, etc. are the hardest.

The Uneducated American

“Until now, the results of educational neglect have been gradual — a slow-motion erosion of America’s relative position. But things are about to get much worse, as the economic crisis — its effects exacerbated by the penny-wise, pound-foolish behavior that passes for “fiscal responsibility” in Washington — deals a severe blow to education across the board.”

Paul Krugman

Nobel Prize Recognizes Communications Advances

Inventors of CCD, the start of digital photography, given Nobel Prize.