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20th October 2004

HOW-TO: Take digital photos from a kite

“This weekís How-To Tuesday is a two parter; this week we show how to convert that old digital camera youíre got in your closet to one that takes a picture automatically every second until the memory card is full, which will we use in next weekís How-To, where weíll put that camera on a kite.”

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20th October 2004

How to make a comic wallet

“A day of tying up loose ends, little things that need doing. Replacing cards from the wallet that got stolen while I was away, I believe while J and I were having dinner on a patio. I decided to make myself a new wallet out of old magazines and packing tape, since there is nowhere to purchase a wallet in town here…”

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20th October 2004

IconBase - Stock icons

“Welcome to IconBase.com. The icons are a very important part of your software and is essential for the success of a software company.
Yellow Icon Studio’s IconBase brings to your company quality icon design ready for consumption.”

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20th October 2004

Bullet Madness ★ Free bullets project

“Bullet madness is a list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons uploaded by our users.”

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20th October 2004

2 Type Designers, Joining Forces and Faces

“For young Jonathan Hoefler, it was cans of treacle and boxes of custard mix in his mother’s kitchen on the Upper West Side. For young Tobias Frere-Jones, it was jars of marmalade and pots of mustard in his mother’s kitchen in Brooklyn. For both, it was the realization that something about the type on those labels (Gill Sans, they later learned) marked the food, with no other cues needed, as indubitably English. And so, two type designers were born.”

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