If you cook recipes from a US cook­book, you need to use mea­sure­ments that seem archaic to a met­ri­fied Euro­pean like myself. They use cups for liq­uid mea­sure­ments. US fluid ounces are dif­fer­ent from UK fluid ounces, but that is another story. I made a con­ver­sion chart for our kitchen, list­ing cups, table­spoons (which they like to abbre­vi­ate as TBSP), tea­spoons (TSP) and mil­li­liters. Euro­peans know that one of the advan­tages of the met­ric sys­tem is the fact that liq­uid mea­sure­ments fol­low the same stan­dard as those for other sub­stances. Thus, a liter of water (i. e. 1000 mil­li­liters) weighs 1 kilo­gram (i. e. 1000 grams). I’m using US spelling here, UK Eng­lish would be litre and kilogramme.

I made a pdf which you’ll find in the down­load por­tion of this blog, so you can down­load it, print it out and stick it to you fridge door or wher­ever else you wish. Mag­nets can­not be down­loaded over the inter­net yet.

A bunch of old guys on stage in New York: Roger Black, Matthew Carter, Paul Shaw and Erik Spiek­er­mann. Mod­er­ated by Maxim Zhukov.

FF MetaSerif Pro: char­ac­ter­set runs to 5 pages now with Cyril­lic et al: bit.ly/zwavJI

— erik spiek­er­mann (@espiekermann) Jan­u­ary 18, 2012

Our book­shelves in Berlin run over two floors. The only way to get to them is by using a har­ness.

If you – like me – have more than one book and never know how to arrange them, watch this movie. It was made by the own­ers of Type book­store in Toronto.

Cre­ative Arte TV gave me 8 min­utes to draw my ideal stu­dio space. For those of you who have already com­mented on the prac­ti­cal issues, like where the day­light might come from and where the toi­lets are: this is an idea, not a plan.

Con­nected to the Web, Lit­tle Printer has wide range of sources avail­able to check on your behalf. We call them “pub­li­ca­tions”. Sub­scribe to your favourites and choose when you’d like them deliv­ered. Right on time Lit­tle Printer gath­ers every­thing it needs to pre­pare a neat lit­tle per­son­alised pack­age, printed as soon as you press the button.

Check out the web­site or watch the video:

Hello Lit­tle Printer, avail­able 2012 from BERG on Vimeo.

John sends occa­sional mes­sages to a list of friends. This par­tic­u­lar one arrived on Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 11, 2011. All the sun­day papers were full of state­ments, pre­dic­tions, analy­sis and opin­ions about what hap­pened and what it meant. But noth­ing I read was as con­cise and com­pre­hen­si­ble as what JPB wrote – yes­ter­day and ten years ago.
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Nor­mally, I don’t believe in horo­scopes, Tarot cards, clouds in my cof­fee or read­ing the lines in my hand. Except when it suits me.

When Jesi Khadivi from Soma Mag­a­zine asked me to send him a scan of my right hand for some art project or other, I did so. Couldn’t do much harm and I tend to sup­port most crazy arty ideas that peo­ple write to me about.

Lit­tle did I know that this was part of a major project that has Lena, a “pro­fes­sional” palm reader ana­lyze peo­ples’ palms with­out know­ing who they are. With uncan­nily accu­rate results, at least in my case which is the only one I can judge.

So here is my palm, between Moby and Tifanny Shlain’s – not such a bad neighbourhood.

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