Day: May 28, 2009

  • Restoration of the Hubbard Steam-Powered Motorcycle

    [A steamcycle built in 1970 based on an article published in a 1918 issue of The Model Engineer and Electrician magazine][link]. According to this page, the author of the original article *never actually built the bike*. See also: [vid]. Dovetails nicely with [The Case for Working with Your Hands][hands], which is making the rounds today.…

  • Mad Men Begins Production of Season 3

    [Hallelujah][link]. [link]: http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2009/05/season-3-production-starts.php “AMC – Blogs – Mad Men – Mad Men Begins Production of Season 3”

  • Introducing Typekit

    [A platform for css3’s @font-face][link]. The real test of this will be how many hoops you have to jump through to embed a font, and how it handles failure: >We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in…