Archive for January 2006

Giant Helvetica Week: 969    (2006.01.31)

Since this is the postal plant we’re talking about here, its number is commonly misread as 666.

Kills bugs dead    (2006.01.27)

‘Bully: It’s the Pits’    (2006.01.25)

Happy dogs don’t need whole books defending them, do they?

Counting Lycra with DOS    (2006.01.25)

The portable inventory system for this store is indeed a suitcase-mounted computer running DOS attached to an Epson dot-matrix printer with tractor-feed paper.

They can’t upgrade to letter-quality?

And does it run WordPerfect 3.1?

Maagism    (2006.01.23)

Bruno Maag on the interrelationship of typefaces, legibility, “branding,” and accessibility

How to vote if you’re disabled    (2006.01.23)

In which I poll a polling clerk and a polling supervisor about how blind, deaf-blind, deaf, and mobility-impaired people vote

‘I am being goosed’    (2006.01.21)

Snowplow    (2006.01.20)

At least this one wasn’t seen during the blazing heat of summer.

Border colic    (2006.01.19)

Listen, you try getting the borders and backgrounds off a linked image