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“The Insanely Great History of Macintosh.” Look closely, and you can actually see three distinct phases of Apple’s overall product strategy
An insanely great infographic.
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We’ve all heard about endangered species. But what about endangered languages? Tim Brookes researches languages on the brink of being completely forgotten, and he’s here to break ‘em down and store ‘em up with his Endangered Alphabets project, our Project of the Day. Brookes carves and paints near-extinct writing systems from Indonesia, Nigeria, and beyond into wood, and he’s planning a traveling exhibition to preserve these scripts and the fascinating cultures they embody.
Bonus tip:
If you feel so moved as to share this project with people on the internet, be sure not to accidentally type, “alphabets on the verge of DIStinction,” instead of extinction. Something on the verge of distinction sounds kinda’ nice, but your Facebook Page community will painstakingly point out your error, again and again, with growing emphasis, as the day wears on.
This sounds like an unmeasurably important Kickstarter project
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The deserved portion is brought about because the fact that you’re talking about a drink [absinthe] that artists clamored for and it fueled a lot of their artistry so artists that were brilliant in what they did, like van Gogh, artists like Oscar Wilde, who were just penning amazing things, Hemmingway, these were all people who were fueled in their craft by absinthe. What really fueled them about it, I’m sure, was the fact that it was poetry in a glass, they were drinking a distiller’s poetry and it inspired them and filled them up with the desire to do more of what they did.
— Lance Winters, Vice President & Distiller of St. George Spirits in short video about their Absinthe Verte
Hyperbole aside, good absinthe is delightful once you’ve acquired the taste for it.
