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It's something of an icon of industrial design and features ...

2025-12-25T20:38:14Z

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It's something of an icon of industrial design and features in several museum collections, though the original designer came to hate how it overshadowed the rest of his work.

I got myself one a few months ago. There are apparently better ...

2025-12-25T19:54:37Z

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I got myself one a few months ago. There are apparently better typewriters out there, but I love the thing, and I used to to write a significant portion of a novel I'm working on. (Pictured next to the Lexicon keyboard I designed, which took some aesthetic inspiration from the Valentine.)

One of the neat things about the IBM Selectric typewriter is that ...

2025-09-02T23:02:39Z

One of the neat things about the IBM Selectric typewriter is that it has interchangeable "typeballs" for different fonts/languages. And now someone figured out how to 3D print custom ones, so now you can type on a Selectric in Comic Sans. https://www.printables.com/model/441233-comic-sans-typeball-for-the-ibm-selectric-typewrit

Wernher von Braun wrote a fiction book called The Mars Project ...

2025-02-23T02:58:35Z

Wernher von Braun wrote a fiction book called The Mars Project where the leader of Mars was named "Elon." Alex Jones says this is because von Braun was "extremely psychic." In real life, Elon's shitty dad read the book and named his son after the character.

I went looking for a picture and was not disappointed. ...

2025-01-10T21:48:42Z

I went looking for a picture and was not disappointed. https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social/post/3lfg4vvfojc2y #VLC #CES