a slightly different focus

A selection of things that have caught my eye recently:

Have you ever heard of a memristor? Get used to the term — it might well replace “transistor.” Seriously, this is huge. Ars on why.
A leftover from my book and graphic design days: Hefler Frere-Jones — aka Typography.com — on the ampersand. Nice.
Ars (again) on the [...]

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For a while now, I’ve been meaning to recode this blog such that there are two classes of posts:

“Post-type posts,” which are similar to this entry — because this type of entry is all that I’ve got set to go right now.
“Quickie-type posts,” which are snippets, things that aren’t worthy of a full post, but [...]

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