Monday Link Dump
* Where did the hated Comic Sans font come from?
* I keep seeing links to the new Honda Civic ad, but I haven’t watched it yet. I post this here as a reminder to myself for later. It’s supposed to be really cool, on par with the previous Rube Goldberg device ad.
* I’m not entirely sure this is legally posted to a website, but it’s such a great story that I can’t help but point to it here: Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question.” It’s been reprinted in a couple of his book collections, but I notice less and less of those showing up at libraries and bookstores these days. It’s a shame. If this helps spur one person on to read more of Asimov’s works, then it’s worth it.
After that, can someone please find a publisher for Asimov’s Black Widower Mysteries stories? I love those, but had to buy ancient paperback versions of the collections off Amazon a few years back. They’re not going to hold up forever.
(Hey, comic hacks - those stories would be a great model for a comic book series, even one set in a superhero world. If I were clever enough, I’d do it myself. . .)
* Now that I’ve adjusted my RSS feeds to be more iTunes-friendly, guess what? Apple has updated them. There’s some handy info in there for podcasters, though.
January 23rd, 2006 at 10:59 am
Call me silly, but why is Comic Sans so hated?
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:44 pm
It’s an ugly font that is horribly overused, usually by lazy designers with a limited library. It’s often confused for what a “comic book font” should look like, which is hardly the case.
January 24th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
As to the Black Widowers, Carroll & Graf published The Return of the Black Widowers late last year, a selection of the 10 best stories and some previously unpublished in book form.
January 24th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
Thanks, Mark. I’m off to Amazon now.
But it would make for a nice two or three book set to do the complete series, wouldn’t it? Dare to dream.