29.4.08

Beyond the Great Wall

I'm supposed to be making box plots of my data at the moment but I jsut discovered that Alford and Duguid have just come out with a new cookbook: Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China. These guys are fantastic. I fell in love with their suductions of Rice cook book years ago and their Mangos and Curry Leaves Cookbook is one of the few I have with me in Germany. The good news for Torontonians is they will be speakng at Hart House (way to go UofT!) on May 14th. And... the book is on sale at Amazon.ca (-37%).


20.4.08

Canada Stamps

Quiet on the science wave, but here are some sweet stamps to pass the time.

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11.4.08

Quote of the Day

"It is better to conquer 1-self
Than to win a thousand battles."

-In "The Thousands" of the Dhammapada (The Buddha)

1.4.08

Arabesque

I picked up a lovely graphic design book focusing on Arab and Persian work this past weekend. Several themes from Calligraphy to Typesetting and Illustration are represented. Here are two examples:

This first page is from a group working in France:


and this is from the type face chapter:



I have a fondness for the Expletive Script font, but unfortunately it is not one of the three included with the book.

The book is in English and is published by die Gestalten (of Berlin).

Zoomers: Boomers Forever Young

Znaimer will never stop living this way. This from an article in Marketing:

What can the 50-plus crowd-still the largest, most prosperous and
heaviest-spending segment of the population-do to win back the respect
and attention they consider their birthright?


And coincidentially, as I was perusing the Buck Institute for Age Research on actual scientifically related business, I find the sub-heading of their news section:

HERE'S "NEWS THAT YOU CAN USE" (ALONG WITH SOME INTERESTING UPDATES FROM BASIC RESEARCH AND THE GENERAL PRESS) IN YOUR QUEST TO HAVE "100 GOOD YEARS."

(The capitals and quotations are theirs - no comments.) Boomers want to feel young and sexy, not old and tired. They want respect and attention of advertisers- and researchers. Does that mean if you don't get that attention you feel somehow forgotten in society?