The idea of a Human Library first emerged in Copenhagen about a decade ago, as a way to break down prejudice by bringing people of different backgrounds together for one-on-one conversation. The Toronto Public Library held its first Human Library event at five branches on Nov. 6, attracting more than 200 users who checked out the likes of a police officer, a comedian, a sex-worker-turned-club-owner, a model and a survivor of cancer, homelessness and poverty. They’re all volunteers whose lives would make good reading, but even better one-on-one chatting. The library is considering make the program long-term, so a supply of human books will be regularly available to readers.
I had once an opportunity to attend such “human library”. It’s a brilliant experience — I hope this idea spreads around.
Even though it is still in beta, if you have need for any RSS reader on the Mac, I’d check out this one. It’s as wonderful as it’s iPhone and iPad counterparts and the first non-Apple app that I’m aware of to take on the new design direction Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) is heading in.
Just started using and love it already. It’s simple, keeps same shortcuts as Google Reader, and has elegant solution for opening pages. Also, it’s simple.
Schaeffer, an American zoologist, observed that an amoeba placed on a cylindrical surface always moved in a spiral path around the cylinder. To further study spiral movement, Schaeffer blindfolded a right-handed friend and instructed him to walk a straight line across a country field. Schaeffer plotted his friend’s track, which described a clockwise spiral form until the blindfolded man happened to stumble on a tree stump.
I love how spiral gets smaller and smaller as walker gets tired or something.
Oh Archer. I had such a font-crush on you. Ever since I first saw you in my mom’s Martha Stewart Living, and then later used exquisitely in some of Jessica Hische’s work. So pretty. So elegant. So well designed. But I didn’t have any projects you seemed appropriate for at the moment. So I filed you away in the back of my mind.
But apparently everyone else didn’t care if you were appropriate or not. They slap-dashed you everywhere. Cheetos? Sure. Book of Tide Tables to pass out to campgrounds and fisheries in Alaska? Archer it up. I don’t want to be sick of you, Archer. I don’t want to think of you as the new Curlz. Everyone, please, there are other fonts. Good fonts! More appropriate fonts! Please, friends don’t let good fonts become Papyrus.
