Category: Books

  • Random cooking may be best

    It depends on the cook, but if you have real difficulties with your own cooking style, you may find an excuse. Next time you fail, just say “Oh! I was trying one of jamesoff.net random recipes“. JamesOff is a systems engineer in the South West of England who created a Random Recipe Generator. Merely reload…

  • A few glasses and bottles

    A few glasses and bottles

    I found a few funny, interesting, or surprising glasses or vases that I wanted to share with you. The first ones are coming with a request to drink responsibly:

  • The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala

    The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala

    Awesomely superb, “The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala” is an illustrated book (download in PDF) by James Bateman that you can find in Botanicus.org wbe site of the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

  • Photoshop: 101 tips and tricks (ebook for free)

    SitePoint is giving away (for a limited time only) an excellent e-book about PhotoShop. It’s well worth the effort to donwload the PDF file. SitePoint sensational Photoshop book is now FREE to Download!

  • Folded paper font

    Folded paper font

    I do not often present character fonts, but this one is definitely nicer than usual with its elegant 3D effect of folded white paper. Source: DaniellaSpinat.com.

  • Fiction of the day: Security question, by Ramon Rozas III

    I found this funny little piece of SciFi/security litterature. I’m sure you’ll like it. The man blurred into existence behind the dense shrubs, and checked a small device he took from his pocket. Since time and date seemed correct, he straightened his sports coat and stepped from behind the bushes. […]

  • Idea for a new typography term

    Idea for a new typography term

    Source: Ironic Sans.

  • Screenplay for “The Wall” (Pink Floyd)

    We do not often see the sceenplay of a movie we like. Maybe it’s fortunate because they are hardly exhilarating except when they come from Alfred Hitchcock (the man was a maniac of detailed preparation) or when they describe all about animation movies. The Wall, the Alan Parker movie created with the eponymous music album…

  • Woody Allen love story with a typeface

    Woody Allen love story with a typeface

    For those who did not notice, a disproportionately large majority of the titles to Woody Allen movies are written in one and only one font: Windsor. Apparently, this comes from a conversation with Ed Benguiat, famous American typographer, where Allen wanted to know what a good typeface was. Source: KitBlog.