I was hoping for a telnet site to play it, but the above seems to be the closest you can get to it.

A history of the signs and signage systems (and often lack thereof) in my city’s confusing conglomerate of mass transit stations. By Paul Shaw,
whose class sparked my interest in typography into a full-fledged obsession.

Another one for 3fj to debate showing his kid.

I wasn’t going to post this, but its been haunting me all week. Yes, there are plenty of other examples of people being hit by giant balls as well as talking heads in accidents. But this video has such a simple elegance to it that the others lack.

Everyone’s favorite Painter of Schlock™ (and rumored Titan of Public Misbehavior™) recently had a film based on his kitschy paintings go straight to DVD. As reported in Vanity Fair, Kinkade may have helped it go straight to the home-video trash heap by taking an active role in the production design. Specifically, Tommy Kink unleashed upon the production crew his Sixteen Guidelines for Creating the Thomas Kinkade Look. Now we know how it’s done.

(btw I had to reload the VF page a couple of times to read it; some kind of active content is screwing up the column formatting.)

“Allen Gathman, a biology professor in Missouri, had also seen the pattern and recognized it as a function of land use in the deep South. He posted the electoral map above alongside a map of cotton production in 1860: sure enough, the “blue” counties correlated with cotton production in the slavery era.”

An interesting correlation between soil science and political demographics. Its interesting enough how the soil got there in the first place, but the socio-economic history piled on top is even better. I’d love to see other examples of geology relating to politics; however tangential they may be. Maybe there is a relationship between coal-producing areas and McCain voters.