Archive for September, 2005

The iTunes of Font Software?

If you mess with fonts on a daily basis, you owe it to yourself to try out Font Explorer X. As already explored in a blog post over at Jason Santa Maria’s, this app looks like it might develop itself into THE must-have font application. I’ve had this installed at work for about a week […]

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A Brush With Bourbon

I couldn’t get far enough away. I took a few days of “vacation” last week, heading up north with my wife and my dog. One of the highlights of the trip was eating at Pearl’s, and ordering up a flight of bourbon, which I’ve never had before. As if heading north for a few days […]

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Marathon Bar: Best Candy Bar of All Time

The Marathon Bar was a full eight inches of braided caramel covered in milk chocolate. Mars introduced it in 1973 and thanks to its bright-red package and extra long size, it stood out among the competition. Inch markings printed on the wrapper showed just how long it actually was.
The length […]

 

The Problem With Major Labels

An awesome write-up by Steve Albini on just how bad a musician gets jacked - not by people “stealing” music or any of that nonsense, but by their own labels.
“All that hard work paid off. With the help of a video, the album went like hotcakes! They sold a quarter million copies! Here is the […]

 

Dvorak: A Way to Type or a Lot of Hype?

Well, I went for it and got some Dvorak stickers for my keyboard. I never learned how to type QWERTY style very well at all anyway, so I thought I’d teach myself how to type using the “simplified keyboard”, and without looking at my fingers to boot. If I’m feeling lost, I have a quick […]

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