If you are confused in any way about the chart posted by Michelle or you simply feel there are too many typefaces out there, this simplified version should be a lot clearer. via grady, who I think got it from cameron somehow—what’s he up to these days anyway?
via northtemple – If you are confused in any way ….
Just wanted to let you all know about the Cameron Moll Colosseo iPad Martian Giveaway.
Cameron Moll is one of my favorite designers, creating the prominent typeset edition of LDS Temple that I am proud to hang in my home. In addition to hanging this in my home, it has also made the rounds at Stevens-Henager college to all of my classes, all the while sharing the video of the creation at the same time.
via Cameron Moll Colosseo iPad Martian Giveaway – Jake Spurlock.
Does this send any data out?
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It does!
Posted from Saratoga Springs, Utah, United States.
“Whether customers are looking for a large or small size, the Plenta and the Micra satisfy all U.S. and Canada customers’ needs for more and less coffee,” said Hugh Mungis, Starbucks VP of Volume. “Our size selection is now plentiful.”
via Starbucks Listens to Customer Request for More Sizes | Starbucks Coffee Company.
Price tag: $200
A man poses with the world’s most expensive burger at a Burger King in London. The ingredients include Wagyu beef, white truffles, a bun dusted with Iranian saffron and white truffles, pata negra (cured ham) slices, Cristal champagne onion straws, 25-year-old balsamic vinegar, lamb’s lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt and hollandaise-shallot mayonnaise.
via Those Things Money Can Buy – Photo Essays – TIME.
It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models. But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist’s rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands. One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker’s Guide that humankind has yet devised.
via The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again? – TIME.
Google Books available in Anachrome 3D
Google books has introduced a feature which allows any book to be read in 3D, assuming the viewer has appropriate glasses. It is enabled by clicking the “View in 3D” button in the menu bar above the book.
Store anything on Google Docs
Google announced that Google Docs will have the capacity to upload anything, including physical objects like keys, remote controls, etc. The site declared that one could use this to find items like keys using CTRL-F and send objects around the globe by “uploading” and “downloading” them, at the low price of $0.10 per kg.
Google Street View available in Anachrome 3D
When using Google Street View you can change the view to display anachrome 3D images. It can be enabled by clicking on the orange Street View icon, now depicting a man that is wearing Red/Cyan glasses. The man seems happy when wearing the glasses, unhappy when he just has them on his head. The 3D is genuine, with the red/green offset being greater for closer objects.
Google Maps OCCA
Google Australia changed directions for Google Maps Australia to use Australian Slang terms in the direction results. Examples of the altered directions include “You need to go south towards [street name] mate”, “Hang a right when you get to [street name]“, “Chuck a left when you get to [street name]“, “Ya gotta take the turn off onta [street name]” and saying “Ya might have to cough up some cash along here” to indicate toll booths.
Search results generated in different units
Google's search results page displayed the time taken to load the results in different units than seconds; for example microfortnights, microweeks, nanocenturies, epochs, femtogalactic years, parsecs, 23.00 skidoo, jiffies, shakes of a lamb's tail, gigawatts, hertz, Planck times, centibeats, centons, warp factors and “times the velocity of an unladen swallow”, a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The value for gigawatts is always 1.21, a reference to Back to the Future.
YouTube ASCII video filter
The logo of YouTube was changed to an ASCII-style one made out of 1s. The YouTube logo is a reference to some videos having a new quality setting, namely “TEXTp”. According to a notice underneath the videos, viewing the video with this quality setting enabled allows YouTube to save one US dollar ($1) per second on bandwidth costs. The notice also remarks on the source of this new “feature”, wishing the reader a happy April Fool's Day.
However in accordance with the announcement, the video quality on some videos can indeed be set to 'TEXTp' and video output will be rendered through an ASCII filter.
Animal Translator BETA
Google placed a link on the main page, advertising a new Google Animal Translator service to add to their Language Translator service. Clicking the link would take you to a page advertising an app for Android phones for the translator, with the tagline being “Bridging the gap between animals and humans”. http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/translateforanimals/
Once the app is installed on an Android phone it provides some amusing translations depending on the animal you select.
Topeka
Effective 1AM (CDT) on April 1, 2010, Google jokingly changed its name to “Topeka.”
Standard Voicemail Mode for Google voice
Google placed a New! Standard Voicemail Mode link in the Google Voice main page.
Evil Bit
Google added an “evil bit” to their API, to aid in generating an appropriate response to nefarious deeds. If an evildoer is “detected”, the code returns with, among other things, “For Great Justice”, a quote from the video game Zero Wing.
Wave Wave Notifications
Google Wave can be set to have a human being wave at you to notify you of a change to a Google Wave.
Google Annotations Gallery
The Google Annotations Gallery (“GAG”) is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves.
Japanese Input System
Google’s proposed keyboard includes a single key for each Japanese character.
Gmail vowels
The home page of GMail (English version), including its logo, has been disemvowelled.
Chrome Sounds (Google Chrome Extension)
Google created a new extension, Chrome Sounds, after “months deep in psychoacoustic models, the Whittaker-Nyquist-Kotelnikov-Shannon sampling theorem, Franssen effects, Shepard-Risset Tones, and 11.1 surround sound research”. The extension provides audio for actions performed within the Google Chrome web browser.
Life size Picasa
Google offered an option which allows the user to print lifesize cardboard cutouts of all of their photos.
via Google’s hoaxes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
