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finally had a minute to photograph & write up the etsy listing for the card deck!

The Big Type for Bad Eyes card deck is an edition of 71 letterpress-printed playing card decks, done entirely from handset type on a Vandercook Universal. It is designed especially for the vision-impaired, with standard card dimensions but large-type and minimal distraction. The ranks are printed in the corners in 48-point Nicholas Cochin Bold, and in the center from various large wood types, characters between 1 ¼ and 3 inches tall. The backs feature our favorite German-cast 2-color birds from the early 1900s, surrounded by a tiling of random letters from Nicholas Cochin Bold, Bernhard Gothic Medium, and Motto, sizes 18-48 point. Each deck comes in a recyclable clear box tied closed with ribbon, with a title card, a colophon, and two jokers. The jokers read: “My mother says she had to find a favorite thing about her eyesight. Hers is Misread Headlines.” My mother, who has macular degeneration, has generously and with good humor chosen six real examples of newspaper or advertisement headlines she has misread, making new phrases from some delightfully surreal alternate reality. Of the six headlines, please choose your favorite pair to go with your card deck and include your choice with your order! The various joker headlines are: • the Utility Fishstick • Savage Nuns • Won Leadership of the Gambling Party • Menace Promotions • 100% Off!!! • a Rewarding Year of Bilking Regardless of what pair you choose, one joker will be red and one will be black. Lastly, there are two available designs of bird for the back of the deck—matching but identifiably distinct, for the purposes of two-deck card games. If you would like 2 decks that differ, choose one deck of variation A and one of variation B.

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via @deckerlibrary on Vine.

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Book of Coma - Codexion (Codex + Accordion) The Codex Narrative

As described by the illustrator, Michelle Yu, the narrative of Book of Coma runs in 2 ways. One as a linear in the accordion and the other, which is shown in this clip, in a side by side Codex form. Not only do the illustrations join up length wise, they match right in the middle at the fold, linking pages from both ends of the Accordion. 

It did take me a lot of adjusting and calibration to get illustrations to flow smoothly, as well as match at the folds. This made the Accordion extremely difficult to align and make sure that the entire book is straight. 

But I am rather happy with the results. I will try to make a clip or video of the book running along its Accordion narrative soon. 

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SO adorable!

Introducing… bookies!!! AKA book cookies, made for the edible book assignment in my book arts class!!

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From Sappho to Suffragetto

One of the specially-designed exhibition spaces in the Bodleian Libraries’ Weston Library is the Treasury, a place we have permanently dedicated to exhibiting some of the most notable, distinctive and impressive items from our collections.

The items on show in the Treasury are changed regularly. At the time of writing, visitors can see the show 21 Pairs and a tropical forest; from 6 March, the hall will be used to host an all-new exhibition: From Sappho to Suffrage: Women who dared.

This new collection of treasures has been timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, whereby British women over the age of 30 were finally given the right to vote.

There will be a wealth of items on display, spanning two millennia of history and celebrating countless irrepressible, accomplished women and their achievements.

One item you will be able to see in From Sappho to Suffrage is featured in the British press today. This is Suffragetto, and it’s the last known copy of an Edwardian board game themed around the violent struggles between suffragettes and the police. This copy was donated to the Bodleian Libraries by board game collector Richard Ballam. 

Being both powerfully themed and purely strategic (there are no dice, no deck of cards) modern board game fans might consider Suffragetto to be rather modern. It’s certainly a very engaging game, and suitably provocative.

One player controls the suffragettes, who are attempting to gain access to the House of Commons for their protest. Meanwhile, the other will play as the police, charged with subduing the suffragettes and infiltrating their meeting at the Albert Hall.

Things can get very tense, and not every playing piece will have prevailed once the clash is over. Suffragetto was produced by the British Women’s Social and Political Union with a clear intention of spreading their important messages in a vital, interactive fashion.

From Sappho to Suffrage: Women who dared will run at the Weston Library from 6 March. Admission will be free and no booking is required. We’ll be announcing many more of the items you will be able to see in the exhibition over the coming weeks.

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For @newscientist #space #moon #science

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Pabu: Ok I haz the mouse

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Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry. The picture alphabet, ca. 1830.

TypTS 870.30.230

Houghton Library, Harvard University

26 cardboard disks, 2 inches in diameter, each with a letter on one side and a picture on the other. In a wooden case.

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Amazon study discovers 381 new species in two-year period - BBC News

The report by the WWF conservation body and Brazil's Mamiraua Institute for Sustainable Development said that on average a new species was discovered every two days.

But all the newly discovered animals and plants were found in areas at risk from human activity, the authors warn.

More than 2,000 new species were found between 1999 and 2015.

The report, published in Sao Paulo on Wednesday, is the third in a series and covers the years 2014 and 2015.

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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it - we all get to dream.

N.K. Jemisin (via medievalpoc)

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After another day of marathon stippling, I’ve finished the background of “Bobbin, the Bold.”

Though I didn’t want to quilt it this densely, I’m pleased with how it made the illuminated letters stand out.

There’s still more to do, of course. I need to finish the details on Bobbin. And I think I’ll need to do some support stitching on the stones under Bobbin’s feet. Such a large, unquilted area is making a puffy, distorted shelf. That should be easy to fix, and I think I’ll make my deadline.

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From Grandpa to Emmett to Trayvon, the trajectory of lynching history has shifted over time in America. When Grandpa was killed in 1916, there was no charges brought and no trial. In 1955, Emmett Till’s murder, there was a trial, but no convictions. And then Trayvon Martin, now you have a trial and not-guilty verdict. All the time you have dead black bodies and nobody is ever convicted for the murders. —Doria Dee Johnson

When Doria Dee Johnson was growing up, a large photo of her great-great- grandfather Anthony Crawford hung above her aunt’s dinner table. Her family would say, “Walk with a sense of pride,” because Grandpa Crawford, as the family called him, defended himself up until his last moments. 

A successful businessman and landowner, Mr. Crawford was lynched in Abbeville, South Carolina, in 1916 after disagreeing with a white store owner over the price of cottonseed that Mr. Crawford brought to the market. His last words were, “I thought I was a good citizen. Give my bankbook to my children.” Following the lynching, the Crawford family fled the South in fear for their lives, leaving behind their 427 acres of prime cotton land.

Ms. Johnson explains that upon visiting the land her family was forced to give up, she felt compelled to become an activist and historian. Today, she is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where her focus is the migration of African Americans from the South to Evanston, Illinois, during the Great Migration. On the one hundredth anniversary of her great-great-grandfather’s lynching, Ms. Johnson, along with two hundred of her family members and the Equal Justice Initiative, erected a memorial to Anthony Crawford in Abbeville. “The story has been denied for so long,” Ms. Johnson said. “But now, if you go to Abbeville City Hall to do business, you have to walk right past Anthony Crawford to do it. You can’t bypass him anymore.”

Click here to hear her story, and explore The Legacy of Lynching at the Brooklyn Museum now through September 3.

Original photography by Melissa Bunni Elian for the Equal Justice Initiative, 2017

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But there are still consequences for making mistakes. ...[T]he appearance of minor factual errors is not only embarrassing but has the effect of subtly eroding the confidence readers have in the publication’s coverage of important things.

Blessed Are teh Copy Editors – Lingua Franca - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education

NYT to reduce copy editor staff and condense all editing and proofreading into one set of staff. :(

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There’s lots of good people on the Internet that I’d like to meet! 

The beauty of connecting with folks online is that sometimes you find a lot in common with a person whose social circle never would’ve overlapped yours, even if you’d been living in the same neighborhood. 

So someone said to me that you can never meet a good person off the Internet. I want to prove them wrong. Reblog if you've met someone from the Internet and they've turned out to be one of the best people to ever exist.

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Giant iceberg splits from Antarctic - BBC News

What is the significance of the calving?

In and of itself, probably very little. The Larsen C shelf is a mass of floating ice formed by glaciers that have flowed down off the eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula into the ocean. On entering the water, their buoyant fronts lift up and join together to make a single protrusion.

The calving of bergs at the forward edge of the shelf is a very natural behaviour. The shelf likes to maintain an equilibrium and the ejection of bergs is one way it balances the accumulation of mass from snowfall and the input of more ice from the feeding glaciers on land.

The two nearby, smaller shelves, Larsen A and Larsen B, disintegrated around the turn of the century; and a warming climate very probably had a role in their demise.

But Larsen C today does not look like its siblings. Prof Helen Fricker, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, told BBC News: "The signs we saw at Larsen A and B - we're not seeing yet. The thinning we saw for Larsen A and B - we're not seeing. And we're not seeing any evidence for large volumes of surface meltwater on the order of what you would need to hydro-fracture the ice shelf.

"Most glaciologists are not particularly alarmed by what's going on at Larsen C, yet. It's business as usual."

Chris Borstad, from the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), observed, "At this stage we really don't know whether there is some larger-scale process that might be weakening this zone, like ocean melting at the base of the shelf, or whether the current rift was just a random or episodic event that was bound to happen at some point.

"We know that rifts like this periodically propagate and cause large tabular icebergs to break from ice shelves, even in the absence of any climate-driven changes.

"I am working with a number of colleagues to design field experiments on Larsen C. But until we get down there and take some more measurements we can only speculate."