Tue, 13 Jan 2009

[NSFW-language] Suburban Relations

Mr. Chi City exposes the fraudulence that is suburbia's code enforcement racket. The villages of suburban chicago are much smaller than the gerrymanders down here, so the dollar amounts are inflated. However, the principle is the same. By the way: this video is funny as hell. You have been warned. :)

posted at: 08:13 | permanent link to this entry

Izzy has Returned

Atlanta Journal-Constitution has evolved their website; the new look includes a shiny, new 2.0 logo, which the focus groups report to be more calming to the low-contrast needs of today's readership. AJC will now be known as the Izzy Times.

...and since that bit of design trauma has crept back into my head, I now realize and/or remember) this applies to the similarly izz-like uniforms of the Atlanta Thrashers.

Logo silliness aside, there's good news to be found here -- the site no longer uses a fixed font, and does not cast font sizes into the microprint range.

posted at: 07:54 | permanent link to this entry

Today's topic for discussion is:
This is very cool: Internet Archive has applied zoom scripts (think "maps") to NASA's Space image archives.
posted at: 07:42 | permanent link to this entry