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Typography

sooz introduced me to joshua darden. he is a type designer with the hoefler type foundry, working under the world-renowned tobias frere-jones. i took josh to the reorient party, and we talked a lot about typography and design. after a couple hours of non-sleep, i met joshua again, and we went to a flea market to look for type specimen books and other objects of interest. we then went to an appointment with irving oaklander who has one of the most exquisite collections of typography books in the world. standing in his store room in a nondescript NYC warehouse and browsing through the dusty tomes of the high art of typography awed me. my interest in typography was instantly rekindled, after it had been more or less sleeping for 10 years. with an expert guide like joshua it will be a total pleasure to go back into it.

The inner sanctum

i visited the w3c headquarters today to meet with martin duerst. we had a good chat about various topics ranging from the xml spec stack to the state of unicode adoption to the quality of our alma mater (martin is a university of zurich alumnus). martin was quite impressed by the virtues of the bitflux editor. apparently, only editors with PUT support get the nod from TBL. maybe this nice piece of software can make some inroads at the W3C.

Witty kookiness


I went to see Rose Polenzani last night in the company of Sooz and Susan (mit.edu webmistress). I was quite mesmerized by her songs. I definitely have a knack for people with wit who exude kookiness.

the llama
To ride on a
black winged Llama over desert
in the chill of night
wasn’t my idea.
stirrup me.
Now that I’m here I’ve got nothing to lose
for the record.
tomorrow
tomorrow
tomorrow
tomorrow
A blue land
and besides that everything in sight
has lost its color.
And if it was
hiding beneath the surface
of this great scape,
I would still want to wait.
tomorrow
tomorrow
tomorrow
tomorrow
I want to be brave
and believe that this fierce flapping creature
is heaving in good faith.
Holding on
but there’s no part of him that doesn’t
disappear
under my hands…
Carry me away,
but CARRY ME!
Carry me away,
but CARRY ME!
CARRY ME!
CARRY ME!

Pioneers


i ran into ed cone and lance knobel last night.
i talked with ed about tara sue, and how she was the pioneer for political weblogs. mentioned that something interesting may soon happen with political weblogs in switzerland. lance used to run the davos meetings of the WEF, and has had a weblog for years. in years past, he used to provide very good inside coverage, something that is now sorely missed. he made me aware of some MP in the UK that really understand political weblogs, and consequently write them themselves.