Gutenberg Bible. The Gutenberg Bible : the first book printed with movable type, is the one of the greatest treasures in the University of Texas's Ransom Center's collections. It was printed at Johann Gutenberg's shop in Mainz, Germany and completed in 1454 or 1455. The Center's Bible was acquired in 1978 and is one of only five complete examples in the United States. All 1,282 pages now available for viewing on the Ransom Center's Web site. Also check out the anatomy of a page. [MetaFilter]

this is great1 and it is free, now they need the mainz bible.

Hate on display. The Anti-Defamation League has a visual database of symbols devised or co-opted by neo-Nazis and supremacist groups worldwide, as well as numbers and acronyms with racist connotations. Although most of us know what 88 means, there's also info about others such as the communist-separatist American Front and the Five Percenters. More neo-Nazi flags here; flags and badges here.
Please remember: while racism is always immoral, symbols themselves can have several meanings. [MetaFilter]

To me, being aware of this is very important, the symbolic content of our everyday life is ever increasing, and the more there is the more overlapping meanings there are. We need to be careful to use symbols that represent our intent, or appropriate symbols for new uses as a form of cultural resistance to institutionalized and disseminated forms of hatred.

modernist urbanism. I came across this phrase—modernist urbanism—and it caught my fancy. What does it mean? traffic flows and freeways, skyscraper landscapes,… [Junk for Code]

to me it means the work of Georg Simmel and Lewis Mumford, their discussion of society and the development of urbanity. To me, while it still exists in form, it died as analysis with the Situationist International.