Welcome back! I’ve had a stress-filled month, and i just saw Disclosure Day and thought it was naff, but let’s ignore that and focus on the beautiful things of the world for a moment. Like these links i found you. Please enjoy each one equally. :-) A history of Arabic typography, and why it’s still so sucky on the web Where to find the colours your screen can’t show you. There’s some beautiful stuff out there in the world. CrankGPT: A small language model running on a hand-cranked computer. “Provided the electronics are kept dry and at a reasonable temperature, there’s no reason this thing won’t still work in a hundred years.” “List of anachronistic contemporary” What Rothko is the weather today? Banana youth The Star Gauge (璇璣圖), a fourth-century Chinese poem written in a 29-by-29 grid that can be read in three thousand different ways In similar vein: “On the Page Lays Language”, one of many poems submitted to a writing contest for aliens A fun showcase of some Winogradsky columns…
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