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Thursday, 2005 April 7, 22:49 — politics

QotD

I like daylight savings time because it ensures that, no matter how busy I am, I remember to curse FDR at least twice a year. —Travis Corcoran

Monday, 2005 April 4, 10:29 — general

mere linkage

answering the hermit crab shell shortage with plastic (cited in November by Vicki Rosenzweig)

We acknowledge that such trans-species caregiving may in fact be a form of control. In recognition of this paradox, the new structures are aesthetically based on the architecture of Giuseppe Terragni, an Italian Fascist active in the 1930s.

clever simple Flash game

Hopkin green frog: behind the scenes

Montana legislature condemns Patriot Act

Saturday, 2005 April 2, 01:06 — medicine

chew slowly

Met a man the other day who said his son had rung up a fortune in dental bills during an amphetamine habit; something I’d never heard of before. Now why wasn’t that mentioned in hi-skool “health” propaganda class? It’s scarier than most of what was.

Friday, 2005 April 1, 15:18 — arts

fontoma

The latest issue of The Freeman shows a complete redesign, with a curious choice of typefaces. The body is Goudy. Main titles and pull-quotes are Times Roman. Running heads and the titles of reviewed books are in Myriad. By-lines and sub-heads are Franklin Gothic (or something similar).

I’ve nothing against Goudy, but I don’t think it’s only my notorious conservatism that makes me prefer the old design, which was entirely(?) in various forms of Minion (serif) and Myriad (sans) — two faces designed to go together.

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