The Scourge of Arial: “It2002.04.02

The Scourge of Arial: “It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft's influence in the world.” (link via kottke)

Scavenging Amazon today brought me a wealth of links on cyber cartography: Mapping Cyberspace, Web Cartography, The Atlas of Cyberspace (which looks amazing), and Mapping Websites: Digital Media Design. All look excellent, and have brought my wish list up to a ridiculous 60+ items. I need to cancel my lease and just move into a book store, for heaven's sake.

Why I hate browser sniffers. Just write cross-browser or do it on the server, for goodness sake. :)

We geeks love April Fools. Really. See my own contribution (below); I set this to be our company homepage, only visible to internal company computers, of course. We managed to have a bit of fun and give a few laughs, as well.

A competitor on Google's horizon? You be the judge. Nice search engine, but I'm not sure it has what it takes to take down Google.

To read a review of Photoshop 7 is to feel the drool factor running through my geeky yet creative veins. I want it!

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