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.