The Scourge of Arial is an interesting article explaining the lineage of the Arial font. Arial is basically a rip-off of Helvetica, once a very popular font, that became pervasive because of its bundling with Windows. Of course, Micro$oft chose Arial over Helvetica to avoid licensing fees. Go figure.
I present the Flash Game Of The Day, Egyptian Space Taxi. It’s a little tough at first (and the few instructions are in German), but it’s addictive.
W does his rendition of R. Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly.” Just kidding. W is making a speech on the U.S. demand for immunity in the new International Criminal Court. I’m a little on the fence with this, but I think this sets a bad precedent. How can we expect other countries to support this and allow their personnel to be tried in this court if we are too “holier than thou” to be held culpable? I understand the worry that American personnel would be beyond the reach of American law, but that seems to be the basic point of the whole thing. What stops other countries from making the same sovereignty claims if he persists in this position?
Follow-up: Here’s a picture of the boomerang woman that got arrested at the airport.
Here’s my Tip Of The Day: If you find a live, rust-encrusted hand grenade, don’t take it to your job to show off. Thankfully, this woman’s stupidity didn’t result in the tragedy it really could should have.
Did you know that your driver’s license picture is available in an online searchable database? I think this is pretty damn scary…
TLC has a cool submarine timeline.
TouchGraph GoogleBrowser is a cool graphical applet that maps relations between websites. Oh, I can’t describe it. Go and see for yourself!
You remember 5.25" floppy disks, right? Well, here’s an archive of 5.25" disk sleeves. I remember back in, oh, 1985 that the Elephant sleeve was pretty cool. Yeah, I didn’t get out much back then.
Supermodels are lonelier than you think is a blog dealing with, you guessed it, supermodels. They live such a hard life… By the way, there is some nudity, so it’s probably NSFW.