http://sotto.org life. culture. technology. ephemera. Fri, 30 May 2008 05:24:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.infodesignpatterns.com/ [via ilovetypography] http://contemporarycalligraphy.blogspot.com/ A letter to my son Kai, as part of a culmination project for the Mountain School. Kai, There is never really enough time to say everything, only moments and fragments in the soft haze of memory that allow us to make sense of it all. I write this letter at a time ... http://sotto.org/2008/05/18/golden_strand/ http://justbento.com/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article3633395.ece http://www.fratellocoffee.com/ As computers become more and more prevalent, writing has come to mean typing on a keyboard. But there is a man, known as the God of Fountain Pens by pen aficionados, who still continues to handcraft pens nibs even now. http://sotto.org/2008/04/20/the_god_of_fountain_pens/ http://azuregrackle.com/periodictable/table/ Trade on historical data and see how random the market really is. http://www.inspectd.com/ Collections of similarly themed photographs. I especially like My Bruises and my-white-top-and-orange-bottom. http://peoplecollector.net I've seen only one stray episode so this gets me on the bandwagon. A fine piece of you-tubery. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIuXZ37GQIs WITH its brass-trimmed halogen heating elements, glass globes and bamboo paddles, the new contraption that is to begin making coffee this week at the Blue Bottle Café here looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel, a 19th-century vision of the future. Called a siphon bar, it was imported from ... http://sotto.org/2008/02/05/a-20k-cup-of-coffee/ A letter about the hub-bub around the movie.Censorship is the prophylactic that ensures our lives are not impregnated with culture and truth and knowledge—no matter how obscene that truth may be. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/LETTERS/71212002 http://www.gillesvidal.com/blogpano/cockpit1.htm As a lover of printmaking, typefaces and woodcuts, this project blows my mind. It would have been cool if they hand carved it. http://sotto.org/2008/02/05/intercut-typeface/