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Saw this on UnderConsideration's Twitter. Had to post. Well made.

http://motionographer.com/theater/optix-inlingua/

Just up the road in Wisconsin is the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. Steven Heller just wrote it up on AIGA.org, and I see they're having an open house on Memorial Day.

Here's a link to Heller's writeup.
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/when-wood-trumped-metal-an-interview-wit...

The museum...
http://www.woodtype.org/

Savers are ruining our economy...according to the world's preeminent financial paper. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Savings is the only true road to wealth. We cannot spend ourselves to prosperity. Capital savings will put people into a secure position again; where borrowing to spend has threatened our way of life.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123120525879656021.html

Great little video about the future of technology, the population and knowing what we don't even know we need to know.

http://www.flixxy.com/technology-and-education-2008.htm

The Zimbabwean central bank has to print $200 million notes days after creating the $100 million note! Hyperinflation at its worst has led to riots, destruction and death. This kind of out-of-control monetary creation destroys societal values. Prices change daily. Ludwig Von Mises wrote about this extensively...having witnessed it in Pre-WW2 Germany.

This headline is wrong, however. CNN does not understand economics. Zimbabwe's government created the hyperinflation, and perpetuates it by printing more and larger bills.

GO BADGERS! Make your own money...reject these Federal Reserve notes which are being printed so fast they will soon be worthless. Money is the creation of individuals...as a way to facilitate trade. It was not created by government...but by individual necessity.

Die Neue Typographie? (Little Jan Tschichold joke)

http://swissmiss.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/05/obama_01.jp...

Here is a recent article regarding legislation about professional licensing, specifically ASID...the American Society for Interior Designers. Some states now prohibit honest businesspeople from calling themselves interior designers and instead force them to call themselves interior decorators!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! The state (and the ASID group) apparently know best.

It has interesting parallels for our profession, and I encourage everyone to have a read. I'm hoping this will be controversial, so have at it.

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv31n2/v31n2-3.pdf

Looks like Treasury will be dosing out more bailout money...to supposedly "healthy" banks. HA! Jeffrey Miron of Harvard gets it though in his review. "Why this bailout is as bad as the last one."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/14/miron.banks/index.html

Vanity Fair has a crack at (one of the) Palin conspiracies.
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/09/the-authoritative-trig...