It's going to be a fine day tomorrow.

[reddragdiva]

• Yes, they really tried this. Needs Slashdotting IMO — please do click that '+'. You can bet this is the next NotN. (Courtesy secretlondon.) Update: Up now.

• Death to Helvetica. (Courtesy maxcelcat.)

• Snark of the day. (Courtesy damned_colonial.)

• Red Hat's default Perl is badly broken. Performance problems? Try recompiling Perl from source.

• NotN: Irish EU referendum.

arkady, redcountess and Freda are down the shops. I'm bleaching my brain hair and tidying the house in a desultory fashion. Mostly I just had a pile of links for you. Twitter's dangerous like that.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

That letter to former owner is totally brilliant -- thanks for that. :-)

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Helvetica?
SBS appeared to have a docco on the creation of said font tonight.
I didn't watch long enough to find out.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

If the documentary is titled "Helvetica", it is indeed excellent. It's not just about a font, but essentially about the aesthetic and cultural currents of the 20th century and now as seen through an ubiquitous typeface, and what it signified (the breath of fresh air that was crisp modernism vs. the stuffy old ways, oppressive corporate homogeneity, and then a reappreciation of its aesthetic qualities).

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

I'd take their views on Helvetica more seriously if they could spell "prevalence".

For the most part, Helvetica is OK. It is essentially the second half of the 20th century in typographical form. Comic Sans, however, needs to die now.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

If I were to have a Death To Helvetica shirt, it would have to be set in cmss.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

I'm skeptical about that Snark of the Day, it doesn't strike me as authentic. Still funny, but it feels like constructed funny.