thedailyfeed:

Before there was the iPad there was the letterpress. It’s an old-fashioned metal-and-grease machine — and it remains one of the most aesthetically pleasing printing methods. One of its masters is Dan Morris, who runs The Arm letterpress studio in Brooklyn, N.Y.

As a kid, Morris was enamored with his grandfather’s printing presses in Findlay, Ohio. His grandfather’s company was eventually dismantled during the fall of the American rust belt — the majority of his printing business came from local behemoth Marathon Oil, which relocated to Houston in 1990 — but Morris’ interest never waned. “I originally got excited about it back in Annapolis,” the Maryland city his family had relocated to from Ohio, “where all my friends were musicians,” Morris told The Daily. “They all needed CD packaging and band posters. And I can’t play an instrument, so it was my piece of the puzzle.” He couldn’t get his hands on his grandfather’s presses — they were more for industrial purposes — but he set up a small personal print shop in Annapolis.

Photos by Bryan Derballa for The Daily

thepoliticalnotebook:

#OccupyManchester. More than 20,000 people are currently taking part in the protests against Britain’s Tory Party and massive government spending cuts. The pictures above are from Twitter users @Marvscouncil and @RichardSearle of protests in Albert Square. The hashtags being used for this are #OccupyManchester #OccupyMCR #antitorymarch #oct2demo.

Read the BBC story.

Thanks to Tumblr user revolutiontrainee for alerting me to this.

reallyfoxnews:

Fox News’ reader comments on the article, “Georgia Board Denies Clemency for Convicted Cop Killer Troy Davis.”

"Hidden inside language are small, stealthy words that can reveal a great deal about your personality, thinking style, emotional state and connections with others. These words account for less than 0.1 per cent of your vocabulary but make up more than half of the words commonly used. Your brain is not wired to notice them but if you pay close attention, you will start to see their subtle power."

If your writing is sprinkled liberally with first-person pronouns (I, me, myself), you’re probably a pretty honest person. If, on the other hand, you eschew what The Secret Life of Pronouns author James W. Pennebaker calls “I-words” and use lots of articles (the, a, an) and prepositions (up, with), you might be hiding something. That is Pennebaker’s conclusion after 20 years of language research from a psychosocial perspective. Read more … (via utnereader)

~ Rick Perry has overseen 235 executions. Will he make it 236?

The issue at hand isn’t Buck’s innocence, but the means by which his death sentence was obtained. Prosecutors firmly established Buck’s guilt, but to secure a capital punishment conviction in Texas they needed to prove “future dangerousness”—that is, provide compelling evidence that Buck posed a serious threat to society if he were ever to walk free. They did so in part with the testimony of a psychologist, Dr. Walter Quijano, who testified that Buck’s race (he’s African-American) made him more likely to commit crimes in the future. (Quijano answered in the affirmative to the question of whether “the race factor, [being] black, increases the future dangerousness for various complicated reasons.”)

Racist bullshit.