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Joe Blogs
Personal blog · wharferj.wordpress.comdesignculturehistory
Joe Blogs's personal blog at wharferj.wordpress.com covers design, culture and history. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Personal WordPress blog whose linked posts cover Ron Cobb's Alien (1979) designs, including the keycap iconography, and London building features such as the grey curtains near UCL.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
More Focused Musings from the Riverside
What Hacker News says?
The sequel product does indeed look pretty rad: https://www.typeframe.net/docs/ps-85 The keycaps are the semiotic iconography designs created for Alien (1979) : https://wharferj.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/ron-cobbs-alien-se... …not that anyone here didn’t already know that, I’m guessing!
Comment linking /2012/05/25/ron-cobbs-alien-semiotic-standards/
on “The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System”Submitted Peter Saville and New Order’s Colour Code (2011) as a story · 62 points
HN discussion> UCL (london) is next door to the kind of grey curtained (bomb-proof chain mail apparently) Which building are you thinking of? The nanotechnology building (image below) does have a grey metal curtain infront of it, but just as a sunshade. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/sites/m... There definitely are buildings around, but I think they are (usually) more discreet https://wharferj.wordpress.com…
Comment linking /2012/10/31/39-furnival-street-the-gateway-to-a-secret-underground-world/
on “Which Is the Best John Le Carré Novel? (2014)”