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To post is better than to not post. Hey, I’m outta town visiting my parents since Thursday – whaddya want from my life? In any case, here’s my contribution to previously-mentioned Patrick’s present Sunday Seven question:

Here’s a list of the 7 top typefaces used by graphic design professionals.

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
Rank your seven favorite typefaces listed in the article linked above.

I noticed that in the article referenced, the word “professional” is printed in quotation marks, which I take to mean that the ranking and perceived professionalism are a matter of the original author’s opinion. I’m willing to take his word for it. Here, then, are the seven fonts in order of my own personal preference (click on the image of for a larger view with more examples of the corresponding font): Read the rest of this entry »

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This little Facebook meme has found its way to me. OK, what am I supposed to do?

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you.

I’ll do it, and I’ll send it to the friends who tagged me in theirs, but no way am I going to require 25 of my Facebook friends to write lists too. My friends have more important things to do… well, most of them, anyway.

25 Random Things About Me

  1. I am a compulsive copy editor and a remorseless grammar nazi (in case you hadn’t noticed).
  2. I am geeky enough to use HTML markup when posting things on community web sites. In case you still hadn’t noticed.
  3. I’m seriously considering getting a bicycle to use for getting around town, in order to both save money on gas and get more exercise. The only drawback I foresee is the increased chance of severe injury due to LA’s shortage of bike lanes and surplus of reckless drivers.
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Why So Silent?

It has come to pass that my friend Todd, he of my blogroll, has seen fit to mock me in the comments section of my last post for my lack of new content. He is lucky enough (or unlucky enough, depending on one’s personal taste) to have caught me in a particularly sarcastic mood. I might even call it a particularly snark-castic mood, but that would just be too fucking precious. Anyway, the following is very likely going to sound much more surly than usual for me; rest assured that I mean it to be tongue-in-cheek. I’m feeling a little Denis Learyish.

That’s correct, Todd, I haven’t posted in awhile — and my, aren’t you a keen observer of detail. Wanna know why? Read the rest of this entry »

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Excerpted from The State of the Web – Summer 2008, a clever commentary in illustration form by web designer Matthew Inman:

2008 State of the Web (clipping)

If you don’t get all of the web-geeky references in the picture, you’re not alone (anyone want to fill me in on what the “Rick/Never gonna give you up, etc.” thing is?). I’ll own up to my penchant for Facebook, but I have been cutting way back on the SuperPoking.

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The Last.fm Waltz

The “Opera Idol” video set me to thinking about the transcendent power of music. When I’m asked what kind of music I like, I say something like, “Good music, composed and performed with skill and passion.” This answer might seem vague or flippant, so I always follow it with an explanation of how I relate to music… and it goes something like this:

Good music moves people. It cuts through listeners’ preconceptions of musical genres, styles, eras and so forth and compels them to stop and listen. We all love music and all have our own tastes, which is as it should be. I just get a unique thrill out of seeing when art (here, music) gives people a taste of something they didn’t expect, and they find out that they like it. I love it even more when it happens to me – which it does, regularly. As a result of this phenomenon, my music collection now ranges from Josquin to Ludacris, and increasingly many points in between. BUT – there’s always more good music out there.

lastfm widget

It was with that in mind that I recently made a profile on the music/social networking site Last.fm. I’d considered Pandora.com too, but I had problems making sense of the Pandora interface. I figured if Last.fm was good enough for my brother it was good enough for me, since he knows at least as much about music as I do and way, way more about tech/the web. At this moment he is the only occupant of the “Friends” section of my Last.fm profile, where his avatar sits next to a link that says with seeming disdain, “See all 1 friends.”

Any other Last.fm users reading this? Care to give my brother some company in the “Friends” box, and help wipe the smirk off that link’s face? Also, any opinions on whether or not I should I put a nifty Last.fm playlist widget (pictured at right) in this blog’s sidebar? Note it would not automatically play when you load this page (you click on the play button or a track title) – I hate pages that play music at me without asking, so I would never do that to you.

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