Christen Booth

Christen Booth

  • Joined: July 4, 2018
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Lipsum Cuffs

I’d really like to have one of these – but I would LOVE to have two so I could run around like Wonder Woman deflecting poorly set type with my giant bracelets. You know, like a sort of anal-retentive super…

NYT Nod to New Words

I should really start reading the NYT. There is a consistent two week lag between the time they publish an article and I discover it though my network. That seems a bit too much of a delay for me, so…

Philippe Starck on Design

I’m a big fan of the TED Talks, brief snippets of visionary inspiration, and what better time to catch up on them than while I’m typesetting course guides for work. Perfect. Mind-numbing leading and alignment tasks are now tolerable. What…

Future Predictions from 1908

The NYT article The World of Tomorrow looks back at future predictions made in 1908 for 2008. Ken Perlin’s is my favorite. Image of the 1908 World’s Fair exhibition site in London (image from the Wikimedia Commons)

Download Rainbows End

Just to prove I’m not above reblogging news from BoingBoing – Vernor Vinge’s book Rainbows End has been made available as a free download. (Preview here) I loved this book, and while it isn’t a literary masterpiece, it does give…

Coffee Art

It was warm enough to go for a long run today which left little time for eating breakfast. Coffee is my breakfast of champions this morning. Who knew there is so much coffee art on YouTube? And who knew it…

OpenSocial and VLE Possibilities

With Google’s announcements of OpenSocial and Android there is little doubt they have positioned themselves in a key role in online communities for the near future. There is a lot to contemplate in that sentence alone, but I’d like to…