Typography from the 1980s.

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SpaceWesterns.com is an online fiction magazine filled with stories that blend themes from western fiction with science fiction, including long-running serials. There's some really lovely stuff here -- the genres mesh surprisingly well at times. They've just reprinted my 1998 story Craphound, the first professional sale I ever made, which is about an alien with a yard-sale jones who discovers that he really, really likes old time cowboy toys. Link

See also: Space Western limerick contest-winners

SpaceWesterns -- space opera meets horse opera - Boing Boing

Focus on Hallucinogens: This is a little gem I've held onto since my friends Ken and Glen mailed it to me as part of a care package when I was working in Alaska after high school. It's from 1991 and out of print but still in near-perfect condition. I wrote children's science books for two years but never wrote one as fun or useful as this. It explains to 9-year-olds everything from neurons to shamans. Rad!

SilverJacket: Just Say Maybe

Some really nice stuff:

http://www.geraldinegeorges.be

* Bonus: 2 Eraser Refills/Refill Cartridge.
* No. 2 lead equivalent.
* No lead to break!
* Refillable.
* Conforms to ASTM D-4236.
* Made in China.

Really great pencils.

Liquaphite Liquid Graphite Mechanical Pencils | Pentech | Walgreens

My two favorite people in the entire world (this month), Lindsay and Kristy Landers, put out a music video this past Summer and it is truly a masterpiece. Not since Michael Jackson's Thriller has there been such a groundbreaking and important video. High art!

I've been talking about these two lovely ladies for the past few weeks, but you might have no idea who they are. It's probably better that way. They are the 16 and 18-year-old daughters of Judy Landers. They want to be big pop stars.

I'm not even joking when I say that I think this video was made at one of those kiosks at Six Flags amusement park. You know that shit where you can make your own music video and pick your own background. I think that's how this video was made. That being said, this is some hot shit.

Nothing says "mother of the year" like allowing your teen daughters to dress and dance like Laughlin, NV strippers. I really think their inspiration for this video came from Elizabeth Berkeley's performance in "Showgirls."

lol...

Better to watch on mute.

The Greatest Music Video Ever Made | Dlisted

You don’t see too many optical illusions in advertising. But when they are employed, it’s usually for a noble cause—like making a woman’s boobs look bigger, as in this homemade Wonderbra spot. Sony Bravia did a few optical-illusion print ads recently, too.

This is great.

AdFreak: Optical illusion augments Wonderbra boobs

Someone decapitating people on poster advertisements.

Flickr: Photos from the decapitator

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- OK, so Dilbert didn't win the Nobel Prize in economics this year. There's always next year, right? Or perhaps a parallel universe? You may wonder whether Dilbert and his creator, cartoonist Scott Adams, have any chance, but since the Nobel committee's records are sealed for 50 years our imagination runs free.
We know creativity and science share much in common. Both science and art begin with what-ifs, unproven ideas about unknown realities, dreams of the future before it unfolds. And often all it takes is a small, simple "key" such as "E=mc2" to unlock the door.

'Dilbert's' 9-point financial plan worthy of economics Nobel - MarketWatch

Virginia Postrel talks with Gary Hustwit — director of Helvetica — about filmmaking, creativity, and the expressive implications of one of the world's most popular typefaces

See also, from the archives:

In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.

While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.

Typography is not simply a frou-frou debate over aesthetics orchestrated by a hidden coterie of graphic-design nerds. You need only imagine a STOP sign that utilizes the heavy-metal typefaces favoured by bands Dokken or Krokus to realize that clear, clean and direct typography can save lives, or at the very least prevent drivers from prolonged bouts of confused squinting.

Why should you care?

Because everything you read, every sign, book and logo, is in a font.

And don't forget:

The reality is that, despite fears that our children are "pumped full of chemicals," everything is made of chemicals, including Helvetica, and even Comic Sans.

Most of the blame for the obesity epidemic in America rests squarely on the fat font face of Comic Sans.

What's in a Font?