The streamline Mercedes of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss lead the field through the banking, Italian Grand Prix, Monza, September 13, 1955

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Oh yes, let’s check out the technical specifications:

16-bit microprocessor • 16K RAM • 26K ROM • up to 30K ROM in Solid State Software™ Command Modules • built-in BASIC • sound effects, five full octaves of music and 16-color graphics • built-in equation calculator. Accessories: 13″ color monitor • Solid State Speech™ Synthesizer • disk memory drive and control • telephone coupler (modem) • thermal printer • RS 232 interface • dual cassette cables • wired remote controllers.

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I came across some great pictogram posters while hunting around The Noun Project’s blog. There’s a whole set of posters up on Flickr.

The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

I remember seeing some of these illustrations by Josh Cooley a few years ago. They’re so awesome.
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László Moholy-Nagy – Pneumatik, 1924
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Good Morning, people.
This message is the first in what will be a series I’ll be posting here as well as on Facebook. I want color in my Facebook news feed. I’m tired of seeing the same bullshit, mundane status updates and poorly shot family photos. Maybe it has something to do with the new Color app for iPhone I just read about.

I’ve said it before and I’ll continue to – it’s amazing and sad to think we went from rich, film-based photography to the up-until-recently inferior digital photography.
These are shots from the Great Depression (1939-43):



Photos from The Denver Post (via Good Shit)