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The Daily SliceIs Apple ready to unveil is new tablet Wednesday?
POSTED: January 26, 2010
Photos» Apple tablet coverage » Helvetica cookie cutters » Philip K. Dick's last days » Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia » Charlie Brown TIE fighter • Regardless of what you think about Helvetica, you've got to love these typeface cookie cutters. • Hero Complex is starting a new series looking at the last days of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. If you're at all interested in sci-fi, you should check it out. • We have to agree with the We Love You So blog: the four words, "Russian," "criminal," "tattoo," and encyclopedia," are four of the most enticing words in the English language. Combine them all together for one book and you have brilliance. The book is made up of photographs, drawings and text compiled over the course of 33 years in an infamous St. Petersberg prison by one of the prison guards, Danzig Baldayev. As the publisher puts it, “The tattoos were his passport into a secret world where he became something of an ethnographer, recording the secrets of a closed society. The tattoos are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes simply strange, reflecting the lives and mores of the convicts.” • We perhaps go overboard with our Star Wars geekdom, but this Charlie Brown TIE fighter is truly amazing. |
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