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I'm Oz, a designer of things...
This is my signal space for a noisy mind
Oz is a designer of things, based in Montreal. Portfolio at ozgur.design. Creative output in one feed at Ozjective.
Latest note, The Two Stripes at Molineux, on why soccer money always flows to the top.
Reading Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. Playing Hogwarts Legacy. Streaming The X-Files. Watching Seth Meyers.
Song of the month, Kukushka by Kino.
Recently launched Référendum Québec, Vanity Flair, and HexyThing.
I write about the overlooked, the contradictory, and the quietly absurd.
In 1959 an East German army club painted over the third stripe on its Adidas boots rather than admit the socialist state made worse footwear. Sixty-seven years later, UEFA pays its top-ranked club thirty-six times what it pays its bottom one, by statute. A look at what concentrates the game.
Nine in ten writers want to be paid when their books train a model. One in eight already uses one. The last American slide rule was made in 1976 and handed to a museum, and the engineers who swore by it bought calculators anyway. Refusal and adoption have always shared a desk.
A complaint arrived through the contact form of blogroll.blog about the wrong flag on a listed blog. The flag was drawn by a standard, the standard follows the United Nations, and the United Nations inherited a fight from 1971. There is no neutral country list. The dropdown has already chosen.
I build minimal tools and run small experiments.
A neutral, bilingual guide to Quebec's 1980 and 1995 referendums. The questions asked, the official results and what could follow, every fact with its source.
Find the words hiding in a phone number, or the number behind a word. A retro intercom for vanity numbers, with every US and Canadian area code.
A macOS menu-bar app that reads hex, RGB and HSL colour codes from any text on your screen. Free, open source, macOS 14+.
I make spoofs of pop culture, catch life being itself, mix palettes by feel, and cross mediums freely.
