Monthly Archives: September 2016

The Surprising 1960s Origins Of Hillary’s Official Typeface – Co.Design 

At its core, the design of Sharp Sans is based upon the circle. When you look at Sharp Sans, you can see that every curve is circular, from the aperture of the “o” to the inner curve of the “s.”

Posted in Noted & Quoted, Politics, Web Design

Dolphins recorded having a conversation ‘just like two people’ for first time – Telegraph UK

“The analysis of numerous pulses registered in our experiments showed that the dolphins took turns in producing [sentences] and did not interrupt each other, which gives reason to believe that each of the dolphins listened to the other’s pulses before producing

Posted in Noted & Quoted, Science

After Tweaking 29 Verses, Bible Translation Becomes Unchanging Word of God – Gleanings

Two of the ESV’s final changes were in Genesis, and evoked a slightly more complementarian reading. Genesis 3:16 was changed from “Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you” to “Your desire shall be contrary

Posted in Books, Noted & Quoted, Religion

Conor Friedersdorf: “The Flight 93 Election” Signifies a Turn Away from Founding Principles… – The Atlantic

I believe conservatives know deep down that supporting Trump is antithetical to what they purport to believe––that hysteria and hyperbole in forecasts about putting a Clinton is back in the White House for four years is more a function of

Posted in Noted & Quoted, Politics Tagged with: , ,

Jeff Goldstein: The Alt-Right Is The Mirror Image Of The New Left – The Federalist

Vox Day concludes his alt-right manifesto by declaring: “The great line of demarcation in modern politics is now a division between men and women who believe that they are ultimately defined by their momentary opinions and those who believe they

Posted in Noted & Quoted, Political Philosophy, Politics Tagged with:

Jason Willick: The Campus Left and the Alt-Right Are Natural Allies – The American Interest

The PC left and the alt-right exist symbiotically with one another: Working together to exacerbate tribal loyalties, to undermine the legitimacy of the state as a political unit, to question the idea that Western institutions can really treat groups of people with equal respect—in other words, to

Posted in Noted & Quoted, Political Philosophy, Politics Tagged with: ,

Daniel McCarthy: New Class War – The American Conservative

The New Class, after all, lacks a popular base as well as money of its own, and just as it relies on Wall Street to underwrite its power, it depends on its competing brands of identity politics to co-opt popular

Posted in Noted & Quoted, Politics Tagged with: ,

Robert Zubrin: The Alt-Right Is Proof We’re In Late-Stage Socialism – The Federalist

Dugin’s endorsement of Trump is more significant than merely signaling the Kremlin’s appreciation of a useful idiot. Dugin is one of the principal philosophical theoreticians of the alt-right internationally, and his publications are regularly featured in such American identarian outlets

Posted in Noted & Quoted, Political Philosophy, Politics Tagged with: ,

The Ad-Blocking Browser That Pays the Sites You Visit – WIRED

The idea of funding content with micropayments even predates the web itself. But Brendan Eich, the controversial engineer who helped build the popular Mozilla web browser and created JavaScript—the most widely used programming language on the web—has a plan to

Posted in Internet, Monetization, Noted & Quoted Tagged with: ,

Brendan Eich: Introducing Brave Payments – Brave Blog

As part of our 0.11.6 release of Brave for desktop today, we are pleased to announce the beta version of Brave Payments, our Bitcoin-based micropayments system that can automatically and privately pay your favorite websites. For the first time in

Posted in Internet, Monetization, Noted & Quoted