Gill Sans smelled of soap, and tasted like bakelite. Palatino sounded like a Eighties-era synthesiser handclap. Times New Roman smelled of engine oil. Bembo felt like velvet.
A beautiful essay on type.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Quote: Typographical Snobbery "Gill Sans smelled of soap, and tasted like bakelite."
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Netbooks at Best Buy in Toronto
Think of this as a special request. A friend of mine asked me about netbooks and CULV's today.
After discussing his perceived needs, I threw around a few suggests. He liked some of them, but talk is talk.
So after work, I went down to the Best Buy at Downsview to try them out.
This is actually the best deal going on right now. Speaking as a Mac user, this CULV is almost good. I am actually thinking of buying one. The trackpad is almost usable. The keyboard is full size, except for the weird placement of the Enter Key. The only bad thing here is Vista. But hell, it's not the end of the world. And the price is definitely right.
There was also a HP Mini 10 and a Toshiba for the same price, but I think the Gateway still beats them both.
Fortunately, Liliputing already did an excellent review of this.
After discussing his perceived needs, I threw around a few suggests. He liked some of them, but talk is talk.
So after work, I went down to the Best Buy at Downsview to try them out.
This is actually the best deal going on right now. Speaking as a Mac user, this CULV is almost good. I am actually thinking of buying one. The trackpad is almost usable. The keyboard is full size, except for the weird placement of the Enter Key. The only bad thing here is Vista. But hell, it's not the end of the world. And the price is definitely right.
There was also a HP Mini 10 and a Toshiba for the same price, but I think the Gateway still beats them both.
Fortunately, Liliputing already did an excellent review of this.
What is a "Hipster" according to Norman Mailer in 1957?
It is on this bleak scene that a phenomenon has appeared: the American existentialist—the hipster, the man who knows that if our collective condition is to live with instant death by atomic war, relatively quick death by the State as l’univers concentrationnaire, or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious instinct stifled
I don't think it means that anymore. Although hipsters are mostly still white.
Link: The hidden cost of product segmentation — UX Hero
The hidden cost of product segmentation
Artificial market segmentation works, in that it can make money, but there is a hidden cost:
Don’t make me think. Don’t make customer support harder. Don’t create confusion pollution.
Your customers will thank you.
Seth Godin says, “if you have more than seven items in a pull down list, you have failed.” I agree, especially when every item is identical except for words like “Professional” and “Ultimate”.
via uxhero.com
Ditto!
I was trying to figure out which version of Vista I needed last year.
It took two days of research. Those are two days I will never get back. My two days are worth a little more than the price of their software.
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