Links for October 2024
28 October 2024 | 5:16 pm

“You pant after the garlic and melons of Egypt and have already long suffered from perverted tastes.” “Bembo is a serif typeface created by the British branch of the Monotype Corporation in 1928–1929 and most commonly used for body text. It is a member of the ‘old-style’ of serif fonts, with its regular or roman […]

The Dukakis Theory of Donnie Darko
24 October 2024 | 7:06 pm

Do you remember the opening line of 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko? That’s right, it’s “I’m voting for Dukakis.” Donnie Darko is set on the eve of the presidential election of 1988, where Texas Republican George H. W. Bush faced off against Massachusetts Democrat Michael Dukakis, eventually winning in a landslide.  The movie opens on […]

Third Potato Riffs Report
9 October 2024 | 7:31 pm

For many people, eating a diet of nothing but potatoes (or almost nothing but potatoes) causes quick, effortless weight loss. It’s not a matter of white-knuckling through a boring diet — people eat as much (potato) as they want, and at the end of a month of spuds they say things like, “I was quite […]


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