Punish typographic crimes.
Naturally you’ll have to click on the image to see it at a sensible, legible size. Although the quality isn’t great. Don’t know what’s going on there. Sorry about that.
Anyhow, see a better quality version and more at Design Police. (see what I did with the title?)
Found by: Sean Rees
I absolutely hate having to plug in all sorts of cables to my laptop, as I inevitably end up tripping over them, which is why I was interested in this announcement yesterday from Apple. Amongst the many announcements in Steve Jobs’ Macworld address yesterday (updated iPhone, ultra-thin macbook, iTunes movie rentals, etc.) was the announcement of something called Time capsule.
Essentially, Time Capsule is a wireless base station with a built-in hard drive (500GB or 1TB), and is designed to be used with Apple’s Time Machine software, which automatically backs up your data to an external drive. I’ve not used Time Machine yet (as I don’t have the latest version of OS X), but it’s proved very popular, as it’s easy to use and completely seamless, as it runs in the background, meaning you never have to worry about scheduling backups. Add in this new wireless data backup capability, and in theory you’ll never have to worry about connecting an external USB drive again… then connecting the power supply… then waiting for the drive to mount, then… well, you get the picture.
Link: Time Capsule
This site takes a classic text on typography and shows how its principles can be applied to websites using CSS, including looking forward to future CSS3 updates. An excellent read from someone who is obviously knowledgable in both typography and up to date web design.
A recently published study in the British Medical Journal debunks 7 popular medical myths, including:
Well worth a read.
The communications universe (physical and virtual) is awash with predictions for the coming year. Unsurprisingly, visionaries across the globe are thinking that this the year where social networking goes ballistic.
What an insight.
Anyhow, perhaps it could also be the backlash year? Snubster, Enemybook and Hatebook all thnk so. (a little bit negative perhaps? I find the name Hatebook to be mildly offensive.)
For those who like me who’ve been looking for a typography blog that updates more that once a year, there is now ilovetypography.com which also features lots of introductory level articles.
Apparently “The busiest shopping day of 2007 for Amazon.com was December 10, when the online retailer sold 5.4 million items — that’s an average of 62.5 ITEMS PER SECOND! Bonus trivia: 17 of those 62.5 items were Nintendo Wii game systems.!”
That’s an awful lot of Wiis.
Source: The Raw Feed
It’s New Year and I just can’t stop posting. This is actually a post that warns you off going online.
I lost my driving licence recently and needed to order another. First port of call was DirectGov. Couldn’t use this as I didn’t have my Government Gateway user ID. I’d applied for one ages ago but it never arrived - should have been sent by post.
So I turned to the physical form. Queued for ages at The Post Office (you can’t just pick up the forms any more) and had begun to review the dreadfully laid out application form (one for our Information Design team methinks). But was rescued.
A helpful colleague suggested a phone call. 5 mins rooting around on the site for a number and, hey presto, 0870 240 0009. Took 30 seconds. Name, DOB, address, card details. Done. Excellent.
Said colleague quippped:
“I was amazed. How could something involving the Government in this country could take so little time? The only reason I could think of was that they want you money.”
Cynic.