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Sick, and watching a Vin Diesel movie. The second may be a symptom of the first.

Helvetica documentary is making me love and hate a typeface #thatshowyouknowitsworking

finally watching Helvetica.

Finally added Helvetica and Objectified to my Netflix queue. Tonight: Long Kiss Goodnight.

When I started Gary Hustwit's documentary on the Helvetica typeface, I was all "damn you can reverse Helvetica Bold out of any photo and it will look awesome". By the end I was ready to throw up every time I saw it on screen.

There's been some talk lately in social software circles about how to take back ownership of your data: ie, how to make sure that the content and data you create and share cannot be lost or destroyed by a particular service shutting it's doors.