Archive for October 2005
- More adaptations for colourblindness (2005.10.26)
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A research paper on “repainting” colours for colour-deficient people
- Rockwell’s Arrived (2005.10.25)
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It looks like a simulated image in a commercial for a television set, but it really is that orange and green.
- Near-paragraphs in song lyrics (2005.10.24)
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How long can song lyrics go and still make literary sense?
- More ROM steel (2005.10.21)
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Another drive-by shooting:
- Tidy’s (2005.10.21)
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Not the even-more-fabulous sign on Richmond St., as yet unphotographed.
- Joe 1, Opera fanboys 0 (2005.10.21)
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A tab is a tab, people.
- Another strikeout on the way (2005.10.16)
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Prediction: ‘Web 2.0’ to leave Joe Clark by the wayside
- Raccoon by day (2005.10.16)
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I screeched to a halt when I saw this combination of parks-department vehicle, lesbian driver, and raccoon blocking the path.
“I thought they were nocturnal,” I said jauntily.
“It’s very sick,” said the lesbian severely. And indeed it was, just barely able to walk. I am pretty sure I startled it by screeching to a halt, causing it to freeze in fear.
“Oh,” I replied brilliantly, and abashedly walked my bike around everything.
- Arial in ladder truck (2005.10.16)
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I can superexclusively document (and you can’t) that warning labels in a brand-new $750,000 ladder truck are typeset in Arial (also, confusingly, Helvetica and Futura).
Tactile signage in ladder truck
Additionally, this warning sign (yes, it really is located above an A[(]E[)]RIAL INLET!) is somehow typeset in three-dimensional, tactile Avant Garde Gothic and Helvetica Condensed, as though some ill-defined category of blind firefighter were expected to read it at a three-alarm blaze.
