Exaggerating is an art

How low can you go: A website devoted to banning the Comic Sans font.

“In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built”.

How dramatic huh? As if people don’t notice the silly type. It is like stating that that horrible powerpoint guy is killing creativity and makes painters and artists obsolete.

The intention to remove this font from the fontpool is a noble intention though.

ban comic sans :: Putting the Sans in Comic Sans

Some aditional Oerol pictures

As I wrote, the Oerol festival was very cool, but kinda crowded. Fortunately one can escape and go cycling on the very beautiful island Terschelling.

Here are some additional pictures of my holiday there.

Beatle climbing a book
A lot of insects there, some of them even with ambitions of moving up in life
Click the link to view three more pictures.

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Geneefse Conventie maakt terrorisme mogelijk?

“THE GENEVA Conventions are so outdated and are written so broadly that they have become a sword used by terrorists to kill civilians, rather than a shield to protect civilians from terrorists. These international laws have become part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. ”

Dat zegt Alan Dershowitz in de Baltimore Sun. Zijn artikel is op sommige plaatsen wat kort door de bocht, maar het is een van de eerste keren dat ik iemand een poging zie doen om het juridisch vacuum, dat onder andere is ontstaan door de detentie van mogelijke terroristen op Guantanamo Bay, te analyseren en tot mogelijke oplossingen te komen. Nuttig stuartikel.

baltimoresun.com – Rules of war enable terror

Design echo’s

Paul Scrivens wijdt een artikeltje aan de top level CSS designers. De invloed, de originaliteit en de kritiek die ermee te maken heeft, en hij stelt een aantal interessante vragen, onder andere over het hoe en waarom van de 20 meest invloedrijke designers (zie onder). Interessant artikel:

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