Category: writing / books
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Fonts Don’t Matter
If you’re a graphic designer, a typographer, or an amateur font enthusiast, this might piss you off. That’s okay. Channel that anger towards flawless kerning. I’ve seen people vomit because the Papyrus font was used for subtitles in Avatar, or get a boner every time a poster is in Helvetica. These people, they know they’re…
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First Person Plural
We need to abandon the idea that each of us has one cohesive identity. Everyone possesses multiple personalities, each with their own set of motivations, goals, and quirks. Call them what you want, but there’s always the rational part, the mind, driven by cool rationality, always thinking it’s calculated what’s best for you. Then there’s…
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Book Review: Marvellous Hairy, by Mark A. Rayner
The copy on the back of Marvellous Hairy bills it as a novel about a man who is turning into a monkey. However, it goes far beyond that. The story revolves around a giant, evil corporation nicknamed Gargantuan Enterprises, the people who want to bring it down, and before you know it, there are ghosts,…
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