The evil that is Comic Sans

I’d be perfectly happy to never see it again, and apparently I’m not the only one. There’s a whole movement advocating its abolition. I did not know that it originated with Microsoft Bob, but that explains a lot, doesn’t it?

Government funny business

Two headlines from my feeds just now: Ten Arrested During Multi-Agency Tobacco Smuggling Operation Mountain Pine Beetle: Canada’s New Government Delivers Hmm. I suppose it’s good that they caught the tobacco-smuggling agencies, but do we really need mountain pine beetles delivered?

Multitasking?

An AOL survey showed that 53% of those polled admit to checking their email in the bathroom. As if keyboards needed exra germs…

A bit of infrastructure cleverness

Clever public garbage can with shelf for returnable bottles Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Vancouver’s garbage cans now have a little shelf on the front, in which you can leave return-for-deposit bottles (the vast majority of drink containers in BC are deposit-return). People used to just leave return-for-deposit bottles on the ground next to the garbagecontinue reading

Estonians triumph yet again!

Another win for the Estonian wife-carrying team (Why the Times of India is covering this news, I have no idea.) (I am half-Estonian, for those who don’t know, but I do not wish to be carried unless the carrying involves bearers and fine wine.) The prize is very sensible: The winners received a beer keg,continue reading