Sparingly elegant graphic work from Jason Munn.

For five months, the magazine indulged in “the new typography” by switching to Futura and doing away with all capital letters in headlines on columns and feature articles. Editor Frank Crownishield’s remarkably literate musings on the experiment are well worth a read.

As the presidential campaign heads into the fall, I’m returning again to this site on a regular basis (I used to check it regularly in 2004), which tracks polls and electoral votes on a daily basis, with excellent accompanying commentary.

Beautiful aggregation of 2008 presidential election polling charts, related Twitter tweets, related blog posts and related news.

“How do you arrest gravity? How do you freeze time? It is at this point that art and science converge. You can see that convergence in action in ‘Imageless: The Scientific Study and Experimental Treatment of an Ad Reinhardt Black Painting,” a small, engrossing, meditative exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum.”

An old message in which Gates details his experience trying to find, purchase, download and install his company’s own MovieMaker software.

Science reporter John Tierney says, “I wouldn’t spend a nanosecond of my vacation worrying about any of these ten things.” With a follow-up on his blog, Tierney Lab.

“A school employee in Sichuan Province has been ordered to a labor camp for a year for taking photographs of schools that collapsed in the powerful May 12 earthquake and posting them on the Internet, a human rights group reported Wednesday.”

The magazine’s “resident comic-book expert” on Comic-Con.

Hilarious.