This is my first attempt at using Flock to make a blog post.
I am posting to two blogs, simultaneously, oooohhhhh….

For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up. The advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high resolution screens, combine to negate technology as an excuse.

For real Typophiles, a guide for the modern web typograhper (that’s not an oxymoron). It goes through how to use CSS and some HTML hardcoding to create beautiful and proper typography for the web. A great nod to Bringhurst’s  The Elements of Typographic Style , this guide is indespensible for a return to good type design.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Overheard this one liner between Brent & our very own expert chef Kat Popiel…

Kat: (in all seriousness) “Wow! You made a cheeseburger at home?? That’s amazing!!”

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I thought Facebook was supposed to taylor their ads to be specific for the user. Should this worry me?

I don’t usually post about my comings and goings over the weekend, because well… I just don’t think them to be ‘blog worthy’.

This must be the exception. I just had the privilege of watching Coraline this weekend, and was at a loss for words. I believe it to be the most amazing, animated, visual, and creative motion picture experience in this medium I have ever seen.

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My life was honestly a little incomplete until someone introduced me to this site. Now it fills the little place inside me that used to be filled with vegetables and seitan. Now all i can think about is a corndog pizza. Thanks fat america!

Thanks for existing.

umm, for real. if someone ever showed up on american idol or other equally shitty american talent show in black face, they would be crucified. that said, the wayan’s brothers dressing up in ‘white face’ and pretending to be horribly unattractive white girls was somehow acceptable. after seeing the trailer for that film i couldn’t get an erection for weeks. then you’ve got the long list of film debacles that put white dudes in black face… from the low point of C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man - to Robert Downey Jr. in his recent film Tropic Thunder (which other than the faux trailers was sort of a snooze)… the long story short, everyone stick to their own skin tone. it never really works out and usually only nets out in uncomfortable laughter from those around you.

@ TED - bill gates decided to show all the attendees what it’s like to fear malaria by setting loose a shit-ton of mosquitos on them in a closed theater. Granted they didn’t have malaria, it was still sorta ‘edgy’ for a guy like gates. read the gist here: 404 ERROR

At COMDEX Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon.”

In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press release stating (by Mr. Welch himself):

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single “general car default” warning light.
7. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
8. The airbag system would say “Are you sure?” before going off.
9. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna.
10. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car’s performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
11. Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as in the old car.
12. You’d press the “start” button to shut off the engine.