On the livejournal steampunk fashion group, along came this little beauty:
Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF5.0
First developed in Germany in the 1920’s, the Rollei 6×6cm Twin Lens Reflex Camera has always been a preferred tool for serious photography, especially portraits. There cannot be, for example, a single Hollywood celebrity who has not been photographed with a Rollei. Now, [...]
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Tags: · gadgets · geek · photography
Wonderful post on the terminology of numeral and punctuation typography:
In “Emoticons During Wartime,” a recent article in The New Yorker (December 10, 2007), Tom McNichol documents the usefulness of emoticons in communicating by visual innuendo. Emoticons can mean whatever the writer and reader want them to mean, until, of course the meaning is explicitly defined [...]
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Tags: · editing and words · geek · typography
The web geek in me is pleased as punch with this announcement IEBlog : Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8
We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.
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Tags: · geek · internet · web standards