Quote – Chris Aldrich

Quoted Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith by Walter Winchell (Naugatuck Daily News)

Red Smith was asked if turning out a daily column wasn't quite a chore. ... "Why no," dead-panned Red. "You simply sit down at the typewriter, open your veins, and bleed."
---Walter Winchell, April 6, 1949 in the Naugatuck Daily News, p4, column 5

If opening up your veins at the typewriter and bleeding means something with respect to writing, then it must surely mean all the more when typing with a red ribbon on a Remington 666 typewriter which gives the type slugs the appearance of being covered in blood.

Quoted a post by

Letterform Archive (@[email protected]) (typo.social)

This box of 600+ specimen cards holds a complete snapshot of the last metal type foundries in Germany. Produced 1958–1971, the Schriftenkartei (Typeface Index) represents the final effort to catalog all the country’s typefaces in production at the time. The cards are useful for researchers and designers as they share a common format and show complete glyph sets. Thanks to Michael Wörgötter, a set of these cards is now in our collection, and his high-res scans are online. https://letterformarchive.org/news/schriftenkartei-german-font-index/

This Schriftenkartei represents a fascinating example of a card index (#zettelkasten) as a database. This one obviously had a very narrow range of topics.

#typography + #zettelkasten = winning!

Annotated About by

Mandy Brown (A Working Library)

books are a means of listening to the thoughts of others so that you can hear your own thoughts more clearly. ❧

to which I might add:

And annotation helps you save those thoughts, share them with others, and further refine them.

Quoted Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by Jordan Ellenberg (Penguin Press)

You don’t make a bagel by first baking a bialy and then punching out the center. No—you roll out a snake of dough and join the ends together to form the bagel. If you denied that a bagel has a hole, you’d be laughed out of New York City, Montreal, and any self-respecting deli worldwide. I consider this final.

Not exactly a QED sort of proof, but I’ll take it as an axiom. 🙂

Quoted by

Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)

I love my website. Even though it isn’t a physical thing, I think it might be my most prized possession.

It’s a place for me to think and a place for me to link.

A stark statement to make about one’s website. I feel exactly the same way.

Replied to a tweet by Kevin M. Kruse (Twitter)

He’s signing copies of a book ... that someone else wrote?

And it’s not even one of the books the Seuss estate decided to stop publishing?

And the Seuss estate is “the Left”?

What?
.@tedcruz is signing copies of Green Eggs & Ham for a $60 contribution, via my text message inbox. pic.twitter.com/BNnZC235w7
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) March 12, 2021
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 13, 2021

Let’s be honest. If you’re going to have someone sign a Dr. Seuss book that isn’t Theodor Geisel, at least get someone truly consequential—and for a good reason.

Quoted The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron (Mute)

We need to debate what kind of hypermedia suit our vision of society - how we create the interactive products and on-line services we want to use, the kind of computers we like and the software we find most useful. We need to find ways to think socially and politically about the machines we develop. While learning from the can-do attitude of the Californian individualists, we also must recognise that the potentiality of hypermedia can never solely be realised through market forces. We need an economy which can unleash the creative powers of hi-tech artisans. Only then can we fully grasp the Promethean opportunities of hypermedia as humanity moves into the next stage of modernity. ❧

As true today as it was 25 years ago.