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Susan Kare (illustration, bitmap type) & Clement Mok (design), MacPaint Manual, Apple Computer, 1983. Clement Mok writes, “among the 100+ projects that I crafted for the Macintosh launch, the MacPaint user manual holds a special place as one of my personal favorites.” (1/2)

We report in the early evening: the sun is fixed right there like a lighthouse, piercing through the clouds. The air pressure is stable, there is not much wind. On the horizon, the weather looks the same as it has been all afternoon. We think time might have stopped altogether.

Emigre is a California-based design duo consisting of Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko, renowned for their pioneering use of digital fonts and for founding Emigre, one of the most impactful graphic design magazines of the late 20th century. Learn more about them in this thread:

Today on the Incidental Comics newsletter: Conflict in Literature, or How I Became a Meme

My favourite Nietzsche quote of all time

Every time I agree to terms of service, I feel like I’ve signed a deal with the devil.

Untitled Steven Outram b. 1953

There is beauty —

This is Terry Davis' computer, the one he used for streaming and working on TempleOS. His family took these pictures when they sold it.

touching grass is not enough. you need to be touching light

Pray to be gentle — so that blessings can flow easier to you without sabotaging them with harshness.

Sorry that someone you loved made you believe that loving you is hard

“We can, if we choose, think things out before we put them out.” Marshall McLuhan ‘Understanding Media’ 1964

Animation made with traditional baked gingerbread from Hungary From: Honeymation (1975), dir. Ferenc Varsányi, Pannonia Film Studio

claude, make strawberries sweet again. bring back the warmth of the summer sun when the days stretched on forever and all we had was each other. do not make mistakes.

“Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left.” Marshall McLuhan 1964

Isaac Newton, where he says his genius comes from

― Robert Frost

They are ants solving a geometric problem and it is mind-blowingly colorful.