longish new york times magazine article on radiohead that’s nice, but reminds me that there are some things that are better read on sunday mornings, lazily sipping coffee on the front porch.
yup. it’s true. only uneducated yanks respect copyrights:
“As we’ve always suspected, the less time you spend in American schools, the more likely you are to hold on to some semblance of the civic morality which Nanny struggled to beat into your thick skull during your blissful years in the nursery.
Thus it comes as no surprise that forty-five per cent of US college graduates should believe that downloading copyrighted material without paying for it is not really stealing, whereas only twenty-five per cent of Americans who have not completed high school would agree, according to a new study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.”
i bet i could beef up my css with topstyle. but i can’t really remember when i paid $50 for anything. maybe i’ll check out the ‘lite’ version.
[via marginalia]
hmmmm. So, What Size and Type of Font Should I Use on My Website?:
“By far the two most common types of fonts currently used on the Web are the serif font, Times New Roman (TNR) and the sans serif font, Arial. The question is, which one is more legible and at which size? In the past, it has been determined that serif fonts, which have ornamental strokes at the tip and base of each letter, are easier to read on paper than sans serif fonts, which do not have serifs. This is because it is believed that serifs help distinguished each individual letter (Albers, 1963). However, this benefit may be reduced or even eliminated on computer screens because of their display particularities, like poorer screen resolution and aliasing or “jaggies,” as it is commonly known.”
[via xblog]
kris found out why the dogs have been so preoccupied with the basement. apparently our ‘second freezer’ was unplugged by the friendly furnace cleaner man. he forgot to plug it back in. over a week
ago. i guess the dogs have been licking up the blood and goo that’s been leaking out of it for quite some time. no smarty pants. i didn’t kill my mother-in-law and stuff her in the freezer – that’s blood and goo from rotting steaks, hamburger, chickens, turkeys, 40 pounds of hotdogs i got on sale from somebody in wisconsin, something that looked like bad twinkies [can’t be possible], 8 pounds of fresh [sic] blueberries from michigan, 3 pounds of rhubarb from the garden, 6 pounds of bacon and 6 pounds of butter. do you know how damn expensive butter can be? i really don’t think you can imagine just how bad it smelled. too bad ismell isn’t shipping, because you really, really should experience this once in your life.
i can now honestly say that stinkymeat us a useful resource.
try to imagine – if you will – that you are the researcher who knows in your heart of hearts you’re going to get published in science because you’re doing the killer experiment that proves that cloning isn’t associated with premature aging. you’ve worked hard. you’ve eaten your wheaties. you’re beating the odds and getting generation after generation of clones. you’ve stayed up late for months. your kids don’t care that you’re doing cool shit. [i mean, it is cloning for crying out loud.] you come in early one morning. you’ve run out of coffee. [you spilled what coffee you could squeeze out of yesterday’s grounds all over your new [well, new to you] shirt. and you find out your magnificent bit part at playing god has come to a sudden end:
“Researchers have cloned six successive generations of mice in an experiment that gives new insights into ageing. The sequentially cloned mice showed no signs of growing old prematurely and appeared mentally and physically normal.
However, the experiment came to a sudden end when the single, sixth-generation mouse clone was eaten by her foster mother.”
good stuff:
“How could a Ralph Nader story be interesting? He has been turned into the national scold, just as I am referred to as a “gadfly.” I assume that’s because intellectual is too difficult a word to spell. He has been made the bore of all time. Even I, who quite admire him in some ways, find him very boring. But he’s not boring; he’s presented as a bore, as a nag. Seat belts! I’m here in New York, and every time I get into a
taxicab these voices come on that say “buckle up,” I think of Ralph Nader. Now this has destroyed him! You have made him the bore of all time.It’s all about getting rid of anybody who wants change, and you create an aura about him. I’ve been demonized for 50 years, I’m aware of how it’s done.”
here’s the entire interview.