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john hodgman to appear on bsg. cameos are always at least kinda neat, but i think hodgman could be pretty great.

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io9 on timecrimes. i saw a bunch of nacho vigalondo's short film work at fantastic fest this past weekend and i'm really glad i did - he's goofy and iconoclastic enough to be very endearing, but he can back that up with good if occasionally amateurish filmmaking.

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man, i would like to hear jarvis cocker lecture about songwriting.

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this typophile thread speculates about possible ligatures for wtf and lol. for those who may not already know, ligatures are characters that combine letters, which can mean something like a special character that replaces the letters fl so that they don't bump against each other in an ugly way, or it can mean something like the @ symbol (combining a and t - that's the sort of thing they're discussing here).

of course, when it comes to the connecting-letters sort of ligature, baskerville digital revival mrs. eaves is the undisputed champ. though if a more ligature-y typeface exists, i actively want to know.

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p.s. speak up on bell centennial. i have always loved bell centennial, aka the phonebook typeface. also a big inspiration for the rightfully well-hyped display face amplitude.

this photo from hedi slimane's photo diary* reminds me of cute skater boys of my adolescence, but mostly it reminds me of justine frischmann.

* includes some good photos, but you have to see past a little too much kate moss and a few odd photos of tommy hilfiger (i think that's him, anyway).