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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over? We’re losing the throwaway paperback. The airport paperback. The beachside paperback. We’re losing the dregs of the publishing world: disposable books. The book printed without consideration of form or sustainability or longevity. The book produced to be consumed once and then tossed. The book you bin when you’re moving and you need to clean out the closet. These are the first books to go. And I say it again, good riddance.

$24,000 in 30 days, a room full of books in 60, and a new way of publishing in 90.

Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tokyo — Craig Mod

The Helvetica killer

London Lives 1690 to 1800 ~ Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis

It wasn’t in. Here’s proof.

It wasn’t in. Here’s proof.

How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts

I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography since Johannes fucking Gutenberg. You don’t like that your coworker used me on that note about stealing her yogurt from the break room fridge? You don’t like that I’m all over your sister-in-law’s blog? You don’t like that I’m on the sign for that new Thai place? You think I’m pedestrian and tacky? Guess the fuck what, Picasso. We don’t all have seventy-three weights of stick-up-my-ass Helvetica sitting on our seventeen-inch MacBook Pros.

Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole.

Paper iPhone TV Set - Central Station Photo

Paper iPhone TV Set - Central Station Photo

Special Report: After euro zone crisis, what next?

The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe.

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