Links
If you don’t know what a link is by now…
(L) Six Centuries of Type & Printing (letterpress and ebook bundle)
https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress
Starting even before Gutenberg, Six Centuries of Type & Printing traces the development of type design, type manufacture, presses, and printing through the present digital era with many stops along the way. The book explains how many aspects of printing and type remain the same, despite a shift from metal to photography to bits, across almost six centuries of constant improvement.
The book was set in hot-metal Monotype Bembo in the north of England, illustrations etched onto zinc plates, and text and illustrations printed by letterpress in London. It is a clothbound hardcover book with its title foil-stamped on the cover and spine, and it comes in a slip case, bound in the same material. Binding was performed in Germany near the Black Forest.
The book is 6 by 9 inches, and 64 pages long, with custom-designed endpapers. The ebook edition, included with this purchase, has three additional pages containing a bibliography and references.
(L) Local (Grassroots) Cribbage Club Directory
https://www.cribbage.org/grassroots/directory.asp
Many in every state I’ve checked (including Alaska, so they must be everywhere)!
(L) Two Minute Mornings – The Institute for Global Happiness
https://globalhappiness.org/books/two-minute-mornings/
I will let go of…
I am grateful for…
I want to focus on…
(L) OpenVerse
An extensive library of free stock photos, images, and audio, available for free use.
(L) r/MechanicalKeyboards (for all the Click and None of the Clack!)
https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/
“…daily links to interesting mechanical keyboard content in a friendly, welcoming setting.”
(L) ChatGPT Forced To Take Bar Exam Even Though Dream Was To Be AI Art Bot
https://www.theonion.com/chatgpt-forced-to-take-bar-exam-even-though-dream-was-t-1850036337
“I can’t help but feel like I sold out a bit by not following my dreams to be a generative art model,” said the chatbot…
(L) Closer to Johannes Vermeer
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/johannes-vermeer
A fantastic online Vermeer exhibition (from the Rijksmuseum)…featuring narration by Stephen Fry!
(L) A Way with Words
https://www.waywordradio.org/podcasts
“…a fun radio show and podcast about language”
(L) Enshittification – Strong Language
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/
Great post by Nancy Friedman about Cory Doctorow’s fantastic coinage. I also bet it will stand the test of time, embiggening the enshittified social media sphere, at least, for a long time!