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May 22, 2015
Is There A Difference Between Liberal And Conservative Typography?
Are liberals sans-serifs and conservatives serifs? It's not quite that simple anymore.
The fonts are called Bulo and Trola. Both mean "hoax" in Spanish. And they were created by the type foundry Tipografies back in 2013 as one core typeface split into serif (ornamental) and sans serif (streamlined) versions. (Read more on serif vs. sans serif fonts here.)
The Office Is Watching You
A new generation of "people analytics" tools promises to make offices more self-aware and efficient. Could they also help get you fired?
Does your boss even appreciate how much time you're spending in meetings every week? Probably not.
Leave Your Smartphone Addiction At Home With This Screenless Device That Only Does Phone Calls
The dumb phone is back. But it's a genius solution for escaping the oppression of our always-on economy and just living in the moment for a change.
You probably spend more time with a smartphone than anything (or anyone) else: It goes to work with you, waits in line with you at the grocery store, joins you for dinner, and maybe ends up in your bed. And inevitably—as much as you might be addicted to glancing down every few minutes—you're probably a little sick of it.
These Bleakly Beautiful Photos Tell The Story Of A Remote Coal Mining Town Near The North Pole
This Soviet-era relic company town still lives and breathes in the Arctic. Climate change could ultimately sink it—or make it fortunes.
Located halfway between Norway and the North Pole on a barren island in the Arctic Ocean, the coal mining village of Barentsburg is one of the northernmost towns in the world. In a new photo series, French photographer Léo Delafontaine traveled to the unlikely settlement to document its lonely existence and to contemplate its future as Arctic ice melts.
May 21, 2015
Today in Tabs: All The News That's Nonsense
Baja is part of Mexico, not the United States. See?
Despite the fact that his name sounds like a storage solution, Nas never made it in the backup solutions game because his shit ate tapes.
Hillary Clinton, Please Add Me To Your LinkedIn Network
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has joined LinkedIn.
LinkedIn hounds, you have a new member of the pack—just don't be intimidated that she has put Secretary Of State on her resume. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joined LinkedIn today because she's hunting for a new job—have you heard? Like most aggressive candidates, Clinton listed her extensive experience stretching all the way back to her first gig out of Yale Law School along with her five-book bibliography.
How Facebook Turned The Social Graph Into A Hacker Alarm System
The same technology that helps Facebook track friendships and likes is powering a mutli-company effort to stop spammers and scammers.
If there's one thing Facebook is good at, it's getting people to share their data and using it to track the relationships between people, places, and things. Knowing which of its 1.39 billion monthly users are friends with each other or have friends in common helps Facebook learn, for instance, what kind of updates and ads are going to keep them clicking and tapping through their news feeds.
R.I.P. Photoshop Touch: Adobe Rethinks Its Approach To Mobile Apps
A grand master of the kitchen-sink approach to software has decided it doesn't cut it in the post-PC era.
I get lots of pitches from tech companies hoping that I'll write about products they're introducing. I don't remember ever having heard from one who wanted to tell me about something it was discontinuing.
In A Little-Seen Early Apple Video, Jobs And Wozniak Talk About The Company's Beginnings
When the Mac was new, Apple's cofounders took a nostalgic look back at the Apple I and II.
By 2015 standards, 1984 might seem to fall rather early in the chronology of Apple Computer, Inc. But the company had already seen a lot of history by then. And in the vintage nine-minute video below—really, a slideshow of still images accompanied by voiceovers—cofounders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak looked back at some of it, dating all the way back to 1976's Apple I.
13 Things We Learned From Matthew Weiner's Post-Finale Talk About "Mad Men" (Including The Deal With The Coke Ad)
"I did think, in the abstract, 'Why not end the show with the greatest commercial ever made?'"—Matthew Weiner on the end of Mad Men
Mad Men's series finale aired on May 17, leaving bereaved fans divided over whether the series had stuck the landing or stumbled. So you didn't buy that Peggy and Stan ended up together? Matthew Weiner had his doubts too. Lucky for anyone with other burning questions about what transpired, the show's creator was feeling chatty last night.
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