the Daily Report
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The eye of God
My doctor sends me to Brooklyn for an abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. As instructed, I fast for six hours beforehand. I don’t even brush my teeth, for fear of swallowing toothpaste and screwing up the…
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Accessibility 101
Nat Tarnoff covers the basics.
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My Glamorous Life: broken by design.
I encounter broken systems like this almost every week. And probably, so do you.
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A morning’s tale
Instead of screaming, I turned on the faucet.
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Writing in WordLand
This is a test. This is only a test. I’m using WordLand to write this post to my WordPress website. It’s a new, stripped-down writer’s tool for bloggers. Think of it as a frill-free writer’s…
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Web typography: a refresher and history
A refreshing dip into what we’ve learned about web typography over the past 20+ years.
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My father, Maurice Zeldman, and his ZGANNT software
I asked Claude to write about the career of my father, the inventor Maurice Zeldman, as if I’d written it myself. Here, with no edits by me, is what Claude said.
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Forever
The first website my colleagues and I created was for “Batman Forever” (1995, d. Joel Schumacher), starring Val Kilmer. That website changed my life and career. I never saw “Top Gun,” but Val Kilmer made…
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Who turned off the juice?
The whole 90 minutes, my brain’s shrieking, “You’re having a panic attack!”
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This Years Model
There’s a new AI model that can render photorealistic people and products, including text and logos. Geisha With Walkman is something I tried to draw 40 years ago, but my rendering skills were simply too…
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Your opt-innie wants to talk to your opt-outtie.
Scrapers gonna scrape.
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My Glamorous Life: The Unexpected Samples
If you’ve never fallen gently asleep to jazz ballads, only to sit bolt upright because a horse is shrilly whinnying in your ears, you should try it some time.
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A Jewish Joke
I wrote a joke for you.
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Far from the bullying crowd
The bullies who beat and mocked me in eighth grade were cruel and stupid. They despised intelligence and worshipped violence, although they would settle for athletic ability. The school blessed their thuggery by scheduling dodgeball.…
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My weekend project
By controlling what I listen to, and the order in which I listen, I’m slowly designing an infinite collage of my evolving musical tastes.