June 2010
37 posts
Comic Sans + Teachers = Danger
The first activity in my ed tech textbook is to make a flyer. The heading font is Comic Sans, one of the most ill-abused fonts in education ever. Do people not realize the wealth of beautiful fonts we now have available? And freely available at that.
I shall follow the assignment guidelines, but also submit a more beautiful version.
Comic Sans.
Fuck.
jimray: Keming, a Safari extension to fix... →
mrgan:
Jim Ray sez:
I couldn’t sleep last night so I made the world’s easiest Safari extension to auto-apply text-rendering: optimizeLegibility to every page you come across.
It’s a one-click way to improve how the web looks for you. Note that this is, however, not a substitute for tweaking your own website so you improve your corner of the web for everyone else.
Typography—good...
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US Healthcare Reform is Important: Two Examples...
Example One
My family did not have health insurance when I was growing up. My mom was a single mother for the first eight years of my life, and when she remarried, we still didn’t get insurance. She worked what jobs she could on a high school diploma, and my step-father (also with only a high school diploma) worked in the steel mills of Northern Indiana. A unionized position that saw many...
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Scary
I have a roll of 35mm film from the 90s that I’ve yet to develop. I’m afraid of what might be on it. Assuming the film hasn’t been compromised and/or degraded in the last decade.
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“A good friend will help you move. A great friend will help you move a body. A...”
– dive into mark
“Opponents of same-sex marriage may feel, subjectively, that something would be...”
– Matthew Steinglass (via sofapizza)
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To the Straight Guy at the Party Last Night.
lgbtlaughs:
stainedbrightly:
Reblogged from fuckyeahlgbt; Via this Craigslist post:
A mutual friend of ours threw a big party for her 30th birthday, tons of people were there and it was a lot of fun. Somewhere along the line you and I ended up on the balcony for some fresh air at the same time. We started chatting; we talked about sports, books, tv – discovered we both are about to start our...
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I’ve been reading through academic journals for roughly six straight hours. I’m feeling slightly frazzled and my brain is a jumble. Jargon jargon jargon.
Lucky
My parents are having to say good-bye to one of their kitties today. They found Lucky shivering and half frozen to death on my step-grandmother’s porch six or seven years ago. She’s an all-white cat with one yellow eye and one blue. Her ears were frost-bitten and remained mangled. She was constantly in a sickly state and suffered from allergies year-round.
There were periods of...
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Living With a Chef
fauxrealtho:
I’d be so grossed out. I already am.
I could do a long, detailed essay about how weird it is to live with a chef, but I did want to point out that I have pig feet and pig jowl in my refrigerator right now.
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Her: I wonder how they chose to put on C-SPAN? Couldn’t they’ve put something more interesting on, like food network?
Other Gal: Yeah, I know! The captioning doesn’t even match what they’re saying!
Me: I put in on to escape the commercials. The remote is in the drawer if you want to change it.
Her: Oh, would you mind if I changed it? (gets up and gets the remote) Do...
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Rethinking Schools Online →
As a special introduction to our new website, the text of the entire summer issue of Rethinking Schools is accessible here, free of charge. If you aren’t already a member of Rethinking Schools, we hope a look at the exciting and thought-provoking articles in this issue will inspire you to join.
I would still subscribe even if I wasn’t an educator. Lifetime subscription FTW!
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“(817): getting caught by my parents in bed with another guy was way easier...”
– http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/ (via lgbtlaughs)
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