Happy Solstice

Click to blow… [Update: this was supposed to be better!]

Got Beer?

One of my online accounts upgraded their login system, and now they use (among other things) a personally chosen image. (I think the idea is that if you don't see your image then you're on a site that's spoofing theirs and your info is being stolen.) What follows is an account of my choice of image.

Faces

Apple's iPhoto scans your photos and looks for faces. Then it asks you to name the faces. Here are some faces I'm naming.

The Downside of a Supernova

A little over a week ago, we saw a supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy. That's pretty cool! But…

A Rant About Fragrances

Lots of people use fragrances of various types. Chicks use them to smell like flowers or something. Dicks use them to smell like manly rutting animals or something. This is stupid, rude, and dangerous.

Psychic Kids and Professorial WTF

From ABC News Nightline, 2011-08-16, comes a preview of an episode of ABC's “Beyond Belief”, in which we see a psychology professor pathetically squirming when posed questions a kindergarten student would think of.

A Rant About Fonts

Fonts are interesting. Fonts are fun. Fonts are artistic. Font design has a long and interesting history. The choice of a font depends on many factors; a font suitable for use in an advertisement to suggest a whimsical juvenility is not suitable for use in an engineering working group meeting with a client. There is no such thing as a univerally “good” font or “bad” font.

Some fonts, though, have some characteristics which make them crappy for almost all purposes, and some of these are being used all over the place.

About Kruger-Dunning Syndrome

All over the internet^[1], people are talking about Dunning-Kruger syndrome. That is wrong.