“This spe­cial issue of Common-​​place explores food. It par­tic­u­larly inves­ti­gates the pro­duc­tion and con­sump­tion of food dur­ing the age of exper­i­ment, that period between 1820 and 1890 in the United States after the soil cri­sis of the early nine­teenth cen­tury dis­rupted cus­tom­ary agri­cul­ture and before sci­en­tific agri­cul­ture became insti­tu­tion­al­ized nation­ally in the sys­tem of exper­i­men­tal sta­tions leg­is­lated into being by the Hatch Act (1887).”

“While Adelle is a slab serif type­face con­ceived specif­i­cally for inten­sive edi­to­r­ial use, mainly in news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines, its per­son­al­ity and flex­i­bil­ity make it a real multiple-​​purpose type­face.
The inter­me­di­ate weights deliver a very leg­i­ble and neu­tral look when used in text sizes, pro­vid­ing the usual robust­ness expected in a news­pa­per font. The unob­stru­sive appear­ance, excel­lent tex­ture and slightly dark color allow it to behave flaw­lessly in con­tin­u­ous text set­ting, even in the most demand­ing edi­to­r­ial applications.…”

“Nov­el­Sans Pro is new human­ist grotesque type­face fam­ily match­ing the award win­ning serif type­face Novel Pro.
Nov­el­Sans’ care­fully attuned char­ac­ter design, well bal­anced weight con­trast and the clas­sic pro­por­tions show many sim­i­lar­i­ties with the serif ver­sion and enable design­ers to com­bine those two fam­i­lies and reach high­est qual­ity in typography.…”

“Here’s a look at our Pho­to­synth app:”

“The idea part is cheap. Try to think of an idea that’s actu­ally worth some­thing on its own. “I wish I’d thought up the web browser.” Bull­shit. The web browser had been thought up at least twenty years before those high-​​energy frogs coded one up on NeXTstep (c.f. Dyn­a­book, 1968). It was the actual ship­ping prod­uct they wrote that caused the inter­net rev­o­lu­tion, not the idea.”

“On March 30^th, Lux Research released an update on the vehi­cle elec­tri­fi­ca­tion mar­ket titled “Small Bat­ter­ies, Big Sales: The Unlikely Win­ners in the Elec­tric Vehi­cle Mar­ket” that predicts:…”

“One of the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the titles was that they used mul­ti­ple vari­a­tions of the same basic let­ter forms to cre­ate unusual vari­a­tions in char­ac­ter place­ment and to allow nest­ing of cer­tain char­ac­ters in spe­cial rela­tion­ships with other char­ac­ters. Sim­u­lat­ing this effect required the cre­ation of three com­plete sets of char­ac­ters, rep­re­sent­ing three pos­si­ble posi­tions and forms for each let­ter. A few let­ters even have a fourth vari­a­tion. For the user this means that hit­ting the any let­ter key in com­bi­na­tion with shift or option will pro­duce dif­fer­ent ver­sions of the letter.…”

“Stand­ing in con­trast to these stretched mod­els is the hybrid. It is based on the prin­ci­ple that a sin­gle entity—be it an L3C, a 501©(3), a ben­e­fit cor­po­ra­tion, or a tra­di­tional for-profit—cannot by itself do every­thing that a social ven­ture needs to do. Instead, the hybrid uses a series of con­tracts and agree­ments to com­bine one or more inde­pen­dent busi­nesses and non­prof­its into a flex­i­ble struc­ture that allows them to con­duct a wide range of activ­i­ties and gen­er­ate syn­er­gies that can­not be done with a sin­gle legal entity. The two (or more) enti­ties that gen­er­ally make up a hybrid are dis­tinct for legal pur­poses, and each is respon­si­ble for com­pli­ance with the laws and reg­u­la­tions that gov­ern it, but when prop­erly struc­tured, the legally dis­tinct enti­ties can behave much like a sin­gle entity. For these rea­sons, a hybrid is often a bet­ter solu­tion than a sin­gle legal entity that tries to incor­po­rate a wide range of activities.”

“A few years back, when a user at the Uni­ver­sity of Man­ches­ter asked for help with the ‘diff – files too big/​ out of mem­ory’ prob­lem, I wrote a mod­ern ver­sion that I called idiffh (for Ian’s diffh). My ground rules were:
Work on any text files on any oper­at­ing sys­tem with a C com­pil­er­Have no lim­its on, e.g., line lengths or file sizeN­ever ‘give up’ if the going gets tough (i.e. when the files are very different)”