“Sometimes in life you have to burn your ships. I hope everyone finds someone worth burning their ships for.” — Philip Welch

A dark slide from Polaroid-compatible instant film sold by The Impossible Project. The Impossible Project decided to use this otherwise-disposable cardboard card as a opportunity for creativity. In their words: Basically the darkslide is a purely technical necessity, protecting the film from light as long as it is outside the camera. Impossible is converting the darkslides in collector [...]

Coming soon to a coreutils near you (it’s in coreutils 8.6 and later, which will hopefully be picked up by major distros soon) — the sort –debug option. It places “underlines” under the portion of the key used to perform the sort, which is very helpful when you’re trying to figure out why sort is [...]

US NGS benchmarks, from this publication. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION

A current sample of visualization of thesis data — in this case, the CIDR Report. Vertical position on the graph reflects ranking on the CIDR Report. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION

And it says Univers. As seen in Montréal. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION

via flickr.com At risk of the blog becoming stale already, I thought I’d fall back on some older material of mine. Back in the summer of 2007 I worked in a semiconductor research fab lab. Everything was pretty much focused on the engineering, and yet there were unintentionally beautiful things to be found here and [...]

While perhaps not exactly traditionally form+function, I thought this ad was interesting. Perhaps a subtle joke from some conservative-leaning ad agency? I don't think the function of this scene is the type of self-expression that most protestors are interested in. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION

No, I’m not trading mortgage foreclosures as securities. This is the start of a little project inspired by @lisawilliams about tracking long-term “news” events via unconventional means. News as a stock ticker? News as a signal? Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION

Futura rather. And poorly kerned. But still beauiful. E38-300 Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION