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1st July 2005

Cameron Zotter: Headlight Type

“My assignment for this project was to design a typeface. I wanted to create a typeface that would be unique and different from all the typefaces I had ever seen. I decided to use my vehicles headlights to burn an image on film for my custom typeface.” (Thanks a.wholelottanothing.org!)

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1st July 2005

post-it mosaic howto

“My boss decided that we needed to do something fun and creative in one of our conference rooms — the one we use for brainstorming and internal meetings — and together we came up with the idea of filling the wall with Post-It notes in a multicolored mosaic of (and i‚Äôm not sure whose idea this was) Elvis.”

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1st July 2005

Why do we forget our childhood?

“Freud noted that adults do not remember childhood events occurring before they were as old as six. This period of childhood amnesia is now generally believed to end at about age three or four. Though current psychologists don’t put much stock in Freud’s explanation of the phenomenon (he believed the memories were repressed because they are too traumatic), there is still little agreement on what causes it. Gabrielle Simcock and Harlene Hayne of the University of Otago noticed that the period of amnesia tends to end at about the time of the onset of language, so they devised an experiment to test whether language ability might be at the root of the problem “

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1st July 2005

The Big Fish

“Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website.”

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