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The Oceanic Six

2010-09-06T18:38:00.000-07:00

The Oceanic Six are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 who left the Island and returned openly to civilization January 7, 2005, 108 days after the crash. The lives of these characters following their return to civilization were featured in flash-forwards in the final episode of Season 3 and throughout Season 4. Although the existence of an "Oceanic Six" was revealed in "The Beginning of the End", the membership of this group was revealed and confirmed only gradually over the course of the first several episodes of the fourth season.

Text from lostpedia, Image via paperblog.fr

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough – Keep On With The Force …

2009-03-12T15:36:00.000-07:00

The well-known chorus runs:

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go;
I owe my soul to the company store...

A code snippet:

require 'rubygems'
require 'right_aws'
s3 = RightAws::S3Interface.new(YOUR_ACCESS_KEY,YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS, {:multi_thread => true})
s3.create_bucket('test.example.com')
s3.put "test.example.com", "untitled.txt", 'Cache me if you can!', {'Content-Type'=>'text/plain', 'Cache-Control' => 'public, max-age=31536000'}

An an inline code snippet – amazing, isn't it?

Lorem ipsum

2009-01-06T04:56:00.000-08:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is common placeholder text used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout. It is a form of "greeking".

Even though using "lorem ipsum" often arouses curiosity due to its resemblance to classical Latin, it is not intended to have meaning. Where text is visible in a document, people tend to focus on the textual content rather than upon overall presentation, so publishers use lorem ipsum when displaying a typeface or design in order to direct the focus to presentation. "Lorem ipsum" also approximates a typical distribution of spaces in English.

The most common lorem ipsum text reads as follows:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

History and discovery

The text is derived from Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Goods and Evils, or alternatively [About] The Purposes of Good and Evil ).[1] The original passage began: Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit (Translation: "Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief and thus wants to obtain it"). It is not known exactly when the text acquired its current standard form; it may have been as late as the 1960s. The passage was discovered by Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar who is the publications director at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, by searching for citings of the rarely used word 'consectetur' in classical literature.

Josef Müller-Brockmann

2009-01-04T18:57:00.000-08:00

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Josef Müller-Brockmann, (May 9, 1914 – August 30, 1996), was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he produced concert posters for the Tonhalle in Zurich. In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg. In 1966 he was appointed European design consultant to IBM. Müller-Brockman was author of the 1961 publications The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems, Grid Systems in Graphic Design where he advocates use of the grid for page structure, and the 1971 publications History of the Poster and A History of Visual Communication.

He is recognised for his simple designs and his clean use of typography, notably Helvetica, shapes and colours which inspires many graphic designers in the 21st century. Many of his works can be found on the gallery Blanka.

References

Friedl, Friederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An encyclopedic survery of type design and techniques through history. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. ISBN 1-57912-023-7.
Purcell, Kerry William. Josef Müller-Brockmann. Phaidon Press: 2006. ISBN 0-71484-349-0.