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Comic Sans

Josh Mock — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:00:37 +0000

I have never seen a more true flowchart. You could do one for Papyrus too, but Comic Sans is at the core of the pit of evil for all fonts.

And I’m not even a designer. I just pretend to be.

Lets get our priorities straight here

Josh Mock — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:00:15 +0000

I hate to quote someone in full (technically a copyright infringement, coincidentally) but Umair Haque wraps up two seemingly separate issues into one larger one so efficiently, I had to pass it on.

Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.

Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.

Let’s draw out the distinction.

The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for….violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.

On the one hand, we have damages worth maybe (maybe) a few million. On the other, a few trillion.

On the one hand, innovation and better music is stifled — benefits are foregone. On the other, reform of a broken banking system is stifled — losses are incurred.

That’s everything that’s wrong with the economy in two sentences: the ongoing inability of today’s leaders to deal with 21st century economics.

[Umair Haque via Ryan Catbird]

Quote of the Day: Pursing Your Lips

Josh Mock — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:32:15 +0000

Ryan Catbird of Catbird Records wins the award today:

Q: Are you posing for the cover of Italian Vogue?

If the answer is “no,” then you can probably stop this whole “pursing-your-lips-whenever-someone-takes-your-photo” thing, I think.

The curse of the Myspace/digital camera age. Even I did this occasionally for a while, and I hated myself for it. Somehow I broke the habit. It just goes to show how we are so easily and subliminally influenced by the most trivial of things.