man: I have this spot on my forehead, just keeps growing
doc looks on, examines, magnifies, is puzzled
doc: come back in a week for checkups
one week later
man: see I told you it keeps growing
doc: Mhh Hmm yes interesting
man: What is it?
doc: well you appear to be growing a penis right on your forehead
man: WHAT??!!!
…
man: How am I supposed to live with a penis dangling in front of my eyes all the time?
doc: don’t worry, you won’t see it
man: *sigh*
doc: the balls will cover your eyes.
The real deal on Microsoft's IE8 BS
First look at this piece of satire published by Microsoft. While about 6% of it is actually true, it is both entertaining and concerning as there are people who actually believe this crap. So let’s address that, shall we?
Top 10 Reasons to install Internet Explorer 8
10 - It makes it faster to download Firefox, Chrome or Safari
09 - You have a color deficiency anyway, why bother?
08 - You don’t really use the web that much anyway
07 - It’s totally OK if the kids in the neighborhood play with your banking details.
06 - The new Add-ons make it incredibly easy for marketers to get your address book.
05 - See any site easily, just not the way everybody else sees it.
04 - Colorful flashing info bars let you enjoy your fits in the comfort of your own office.
03 - Design isn’t that important, content counts, even if it’s all on one line, white on white text.
02 - The new porn mode hides your bad habits from everyone, including yourself.
01 - The diagnostic report from the doc did close with the following note: Severe Mental Illness.
Obama, McCain and what their typography means, in short.
McCain | Palin
The McCain / Palin campaign is using Optima Demi Bold a typeface which is very undecided by nature. In general the Optima family is a sans serif with serif ambitions. Now are the ambitions progressive or is the stem progressive and the ambitions olden?
And the weight. Of course with any marketing campaign with lots of people creating the visuals the font weight varies due to lack of communications. Mostly the Demi Bold weight seems to be used. And what does that mean?
Demi Bold. The weight between Bold and Medium. A moderation of principles or a bag of compromises?
Obama | Biden
The main face of Obama’s campaign always was embodied in the word CHANGE set in Gotham Black and even Gotham Ultra. Gotham, the essence of an urban, street solid sans serif. The ambitions are clear. The typeface leaves no doubt about the meaning, it’s not leaning to progress OR regress. It is what it is and says what it means. From the looks it is very progressive. With an urban feel.
An urban feel? Does that mean Obama will only care for the metro cities for the sake of progress? Now it gets interesting. Instead of holding just with one typeface the Obama campaign paired the progressive, urban Gotham got paired with a more traditional serif.
Requiem a very traditional, old world typeface paired with the progressive Gotham really creates a sense of harmonic tension between the urban metro cities and the rural heartland.
Snuggly the Security Bear - so dumb it could be real. (warning contains Adobe Flash content) (http://ping.fm/a18NL)
raising the stakes: if this makes it in the mag, I’ll do a 10 track solo album! (http://ping.fm/SfhPh)
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