Comment Box Poets

After discovering the Bygone Bureau the other day, I’ve been going through their archives and found this post that says “There’s poetry in everything, including the user comments of NYTimes.com’s most popular blogs. Darryl Campbell investigates the web’s unlikely poetry community.” Especially on the Ben Schott’s Vocabular Blog, where this comment by Tim Torkildson appears on a post called “Typomaniacs: Those with strongly-held views on typography.”

In this modern day and age
Sans-serif is all the rage.
Typeface, point, and spacing too
Are as bland as canned beef stew.
Cursive is no longer seen.
Gothic is a mere pipe dream.
Fonts are nothing but homogenous;
I’d as lief we were androgenous!

(I seem to be finding all sorts of new words this week — lief means gladly or willingly.) See the entire Bygone Bureau post here.

200 Year Perpetual Calendar

Recently the Beast Pieces blog had a post about a 200 year perpetual calendar they printed letterpress. How does a 200 year perpetual calendar work?, I wondered. Unfortunately, the instructions at the bottom are in German, as is the information on the design firm’s website. But then I found this spreadsheet that shows there really are only 14 unique yearly calendars between 1900 and 2099, and then goes on to map each of those 200 years to one of the 14 unique calendars. This begins to help me understand how the German calendar works. Then I found a 10,000 year perpetual calendar with a nifty chart that lets you generate any calendar, without a computer. They both come from calendarhome.com, devoted to all things calendar.

200 Year Perpetual Calendar