Simple and quick perfect bind using a stapler.
1. Have duplex prints ready to bind, crop marks are suggested.
2. Using binder clips, clamp your book along the edge that will later be bound.
3. With a steady hand, metal ruler, and fresh x-acto, trim edges of book starting (and this is important) with the right, then top and bottom.
4. With a ruler, mark the left edge of your book a quarter inch from the spine at the top and bottom of the page.
5. Using a heavy duty stapler (the kind that can handle large stacks), staple in three to four places along your quarter inch margin, using even spacing.
6. Place a scrap sheet of paper over each staple and hammer the staple down until it is mostly flush with the page. Repeat for each staple on the front and back.
7. Trim excess paper. You can cut right up to the staples.
8. Finally, trim a piece of self-adhering or basic bookcloth to your preferred size, and attach to the spine. Place on a clean, flat surface and weigh down while drying.
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yep, we’ve sure got our priorities in line. the government of this country and the motherfuckers that execute the extent of the laws here do not give one shit about blacks, gays, women, the poor of any color, hispanics, or anyone else that is not rich and white and male. but what they do care about is the bottom line of the cocksucking media industries who haven’t noticed, unlike the rest of the world, that the bullshit they peddle is less than worthless. i would love to take a record executive or a film producer and drop him off at an mp3 market in marrakech to get a picture as to what is being done globally with the shit he puts out. here’s a glimpse, it’s being sold and traded for pennies, nothing, yet when the guy on the left helps put it out for less than pennies he gets a 50 stint. the guy on the right ends a life brutally and gets less than half that. you know what? fuck our priorities.
(Source: nonoo)
There’s a very good article on Pitchfork about the late legend Gil Scott-Heron; interviewing some of his peers, friends, and contemporaries.
Leon Collins, housemate: When I look at entertainers in general, most of them are vulnerable, sensitive, compassionate. When trauma impacts them they’re emotionally damaged and a lot of them have broken hearts. They self-medicate. That’s the history of all music, black music in particular. Michael Jackson’s another sensitive soul who was traumatized. I look at Gil as a cultural activist warrior who spoke truth to power and paid a price for it. The demons that chased Gil, he earned them. They were real but I don’t think he asked for them.
RTA is on the air right now
Our second to last broadcast is going down right now. Tune in for ice cream trucks, band practice, sirens, horns, kids squawking, parents admonishing, highway overpasses passing over, gravel under our shoes, scouse diamonds in the road; the story of Anacostia told with its sounds.
The Daily Show had an especially good night in regards to pointing out some inconsistencies last night.
Nice to see the New Orleans arts community growing, and interestingly along the crescent on this map we update for Catalogue— a bi-monthly printed living listing of galleries and institutions that host rotating visual art shows. It is distributed freely in art spaces as well as shops, events and other places of local interest.
Castro’s comments came in a long opinion piece carried by official media two days after Republican presidential hopefuls at a debate in Florida presented mostly hard-line stances on what to do about the Communist-run island, and even speculated as to what would happen to the 85-year-old revolutionary leader’s soul when he dies.
Cuba has become an important issue as the candidates court Florida’s influential Cuban-American community in an effort to win the biggest electoral prize so far in the primary season.
Castro said he always assumed the candidates would try to outdo each other on the issue of Cuba, but that he was nonetheless appalled by the level of debate.
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,” said the retired Cuban leader, who has dueled with 11 U.S. administrations since his 1959 revolution.
Obama: Brewer Encounter ‘Not a Big Deal’
“I think it’s always good publicity for a Republican if they’re in an argument with me,” Obama said.
There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be “dumb,” according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point…
A basic misunderstanding of our global governors in the IMF, World Trade
Organization and other still-emerging institutions, is to believe that abstract economic theory is more important than the real world. We are supposed to believe that encouraging the unrestricted flow of commodities and money across national borders will meet all our human needs. A commitment to these abstractions still remains the test of good international citizenship for governments.
Yet the real world is about to generate what economists call “externalities” on such a huge scale, as a result of the waste from how the world does business, that they will ridicule our faith in the compromised market mechanisms at the centre of our economic system.
After the middle of this century the economic cost of global warming stands to
surpass the value of total world economic output, according to the best guesses of the insurance industry. Before that, in 25 years time, half of all people living in developing countries will be at risk from unnatural disasters.
How we manage and adapt to global warming is going to become the organizing principle of the world economy, either through choice or by the climate’s imposition.
