A few weeks ago (when I finally got my room wired up at my new apartment), I booted up my Linux box and started updating Debian. When the dust settled this morning, my font settings had reverted themselves... leaving me with the ugly-beyond-description font families Kochi and Sazanami as the default for Chinese/Japanese characters.

Whose idea was it to have a two-year-old come up with fonts?!! I guess you get what you pay for, since they're open source.

I immediately set out to find something better and decided that, much as I dislike Microsoft typography in general, their Asian fonts are actually pretty decent, so I quickly installed them to save my computer from typographical horror.

Newman's Own just lost major coolness points (!) with me. The letters on their Alphabet Cookies are carved in none other than Arial.

... says Ian, who merrily munches away at the cookies.... damn you Newman's Own!!!

My dear little heart broke when I saw this photograph of the craigslist office in the Metro on the way to work this morning. Does anyone else wince when they see it? If you do, don't visit the "valet parking" sign at the Hotel@MIT either (next to the University Park Star Market).