SOME TRUTH TO START OUT THE WEEK: Dale Allen Dixon, you rotgut harbinger of more-or-less useless knowledge: You are fucked. The clipping pathery starts this morning at 10 in the A.M. Bring your A-game and don’t even think of messing with that fuckin’ pixel tolerance. Don’t. Be here. Be ready. Be focused. Get clipping.

We’re clipping hats. We’re clipping bindings. We’re clipping dachshunds. Whatever the hell it takes.

Dale will have “clipper’s claw” by Wednesday. That’s a safe bet.

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THIS ONE IS FOR HOSS: Incredible Ham radio cards. Some gorgeous freehand mastery in there.

I’ll just say it this 3,427th time: No amount of schooling, apprenticeship, cultural analysis, heady discourse, academic honor or technical prowess can reproduce the brilliance here. So don’t even mess with it. Just stand back in awe, like the rest of us.

(Can’t remember who tipped me off on this one. Someone awesome, I know that much. Thanks.)

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WE’RE DOWN WITH “MEDIUM” TOO: Futura Medium, nice and big, on yer chest. (Thanks, Jake!)

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SOMETHING TO THING ABOUT: The original design for Futura. (Thanks, Jules!)

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NICE AND LEAN: Pound for pound, a nice, meaty font. Value Pack by Robert Bolesta. (Sent in by Jeremy Beasely. Thanks!)

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THINK YOU’VE GOT LEGO CHOPS?: Well, think again. (Via GrainEdit.com’s Twitter feed.)

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HAPPY DEREK DAY: Happy 35th, D!

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ON THE PLAYER:

01. Glaciers - And The Sea Won The Battle
02. Bottle Rockets - Lean Forward
03. Benjamin Gibbard and Jay Farrar - One Fast Move And I’m Gone