I have become a FriendFeed fan in the past few weeks which may be obvious through the badge displayed on the homepage. It is a great way to passively share things that you may stumble across while surfing the web. I have my Google Reader shared articles, diggs, tweets, and YouTube favorites (to name a few) all collected together into this simple and easy to read stream.
Subscribing to what are called “Rooms,” where FriendFeed users can gather to share media related to a certain topic, I was made aware of an eBay auction for the metal type displayed in the picture above. $6 later, and a box of real life Chinese letterpess type is in the mail.
The FriendFeed Room I found the auction in is dedicated to typography and it had some other goodies. Here they are:
Contemporary Chinese typography.
Japanese book design.
Ancient Chinese typography.
By the way, as of 9:09 Eastern time 11/6/2008 the metal type is still available for purchase here.