Archive for April 2006

Fisking Chris Hofstader    (2006.04.13)

The former vice-president at Freedom Scientific, unloved makers of Jaws, now has a blog. Guess which company he attacks?

Pro-creator zealots    (2006.04.12)

Fisking the Creator’s Copyright Coalition about exemptions for people with perceptual disabilities. Fascinating, I know

Aldo Novarese, I spit on your grave    (2006.04.11)

Or rather, IGA spits on your grave.

The second-rate supermarket chain IGA has this really awful aisle signage. (Have you ever visited a supermarket with even adequate aisle signage?)

That’s ITC Garamond for the aisle number and Novarese caps for the product categories. Oh, but wait, they didn’t leave enough room for those, so they have to scrunch the type. Think you could read that at a distance? (They also don’t know whether to use ampersand or slash to indicate “and.”)

Then you go two aisles over and things are worse.

Here they can’t get the signs updated from head office, so they just laser-print Times capitals and stick those sheets of paper on. (CHINESE FOOD? INDIAN FOODS [plural]?)

What happens if they have to use italic? They do know the capitals are upright, don’t they?

Collective copyright consultation    (2006.04.10)

It is time to out Craig Parks as my copyright lawyer. Why? I’m helping him with a project

You can’t make this shit up    (2006.04.09)

Shopping convenience for Leslieville inverts    (2006.04.08)

“JOE LOOKS LIKE A WINNER! HE CERTAINLY SHOPS THERE!”

Illinois Terminal    (2006.04.06)

Dig the roman capitals.

Maroon Souvenir    (2006.04.04)

Among other fonts.

White asparagus, sure. But “maroon carrots”?