Author: Harry

Housman talking about his day-job

“Covering Photography is a web-based archive and resource for the study of the relationship between the history of photography and book cover design.” Via Design Observer.

the photography of Seydou Keita

“When their only bat snapped during one tournament, it looked like the end of cricket in Yugoslavia. But scoresheets were stored, and Borut just happened to have a friend in neighbouring Austria with a bat.”

A sketchbook from the Great War

Dawkins on why juries are an example of bad experimental design.

Good stuff.

via things magazine

A bit special-interest; but if you’re a WordPress user who likes to use the category feature a lot, it’s completely brilliant.

A selection of music recordings from 1906.

‘Now-opaque jokes from the Edo period’

via Design Observer

a cool photo. via MAKE

What a brilliant headline.

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