Jürg Lehni discusses some of the history of typography, with a special empasis on the role of Donald Knuth’s work.

gnuplot continues to grow towards the web. This patch, by one of gnuplot’s developers, is in the CVS version and may make it into a release one day. It allows labels to appear upon pointer-hover in SVG and HTML Canvas plots.

Not only is thenextweb.com a smorgasbord of terrible design decisions, including the choice bit of coöpting your arrow keys, they steal their articles. Then their “CEO” gets hysterical in public when they get caught.

A. M. Kuchling’s clear and well-written survey of the topic: itertools, generators, functools, the operator module, and more, all in one convenient document. I had no idea you could pass values into a generator. And check out itertools.groupby.

This brilliant visualization from the USGS gives the answer visceral impact.

The coolest thing I've seen in a while. Drawing by thinking.

Vegetarians who believe their diet is somehow more “ethical” may not be looking at the big picture.

Droll and practical videos.

Yet another example of beginner-level mistakes in OS X. Previous Apple blunders have destroyed users’ files, wiped out their home folders, and deleted their email without warning. Now we lean that Apple stores login passwords unencrypted, in plain text, depending on FileVault to protect them. Don’t expect to hear about this from the carefully nurtured cheerleaders that provide a flow of soothing Apple news for the consumption of their blinkered customers, any more than how you heard from them about Apple lying in front of a judge to try to get out of compensating a man for a defective laptop, and losing.

“[E]veryday mug sizes produce natural frequencies that just happen to match those of a person's leg movements during walking.”

You installed it because you were annoyed by animated advertisements. But then you noticed your CPU was more relaxed and your browser was more responsive, and stopped crashing (at least on Linux). This article exposes what may be the fundamental reasons.

Some notes added on finding OS X binaries of gnuplot.

An extract from Hannah Rothschild’s recent book tells the disturbing story of Thelonious Monk’s beating by Delaware state troopers, recounted in R. Kelley’s superb biography, from a slightly different angle.

501 free and open-source webfonts, with a nifty search tool. Especially useful for those who think nice fonts = better typography.

From last Summer, but new to me. Good job on clarifying git concepts in general, and git-reset in particular.

A new version of this extremely practical Lisp has been released. An interesting new feature is Reader Literals, which function as a kind of namespaced reader macro.

A new site with a good idea: to collect useful document templates for use with LaTeX. There are already good examples for CVs, letters, calendars, and more.

If you must use a QR code, at least make it cool looking.

This time their chicanery was exposed in India, so the vindictive priests are using India’s backward laws to try to get the person who exposed their fakery imprisoned for “blasphemy” and “hurting the religious sentiments of a particular community.”

A nice, clear tutorial on decorators in Python.