An amazing article about the history of, and degradation of, type in the Toronto Subway system by the indomitable Joe Clark. Anyone who loves design, typography, and information design would do well to read this (admittedly, you’ll need an hour or two to get through it all). It also features quotes and ideas from Massimo Vignelli, someone I know from their involvement at RIT.
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“Programmer’s Day is celebrated annually on the 256th day of the year, which happens to be today — so reach over and give that special computer scientist in your life a big bear hug, flowers, chocolates, or a simple “thanks” for making Engadget (and pretty much everything else we care about) possible.”read more | digg [...]
A small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apache or Rails,and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface.
It’s a bit hard to explain in words, so please have a look at the site for an example movie and more information.read more [...]
