October 09, 2006

A nifty little site on writing and typography. (Via Metachat.)
posted by tracicle 18 years ago
  • Had no idea that snow atop letters could stir such passions!
  • HOW DO YOU get people to read your pages? Start by studying mail order brochures. That’s where you find the tricks of the trade. And look at advertisements with plenty of text. You’ll notice that they have several features in common. They can help you make better Web pages. Good advice, and not a little depressing to boot.
  • Do we need more typefaces? Not really. Blasphemy!
  • RTD's Two Immutable Rules of Fonts: 1. All technology begins with Courier. 2. All persons using Comic Sans in serious business correspondence should be fired.
  • I love MetaChat's new elephant.
  • Um, the um, blog link on sidebar bwoke.
  • All broken. Serious deja vu.
  • You people are crazy. It works for me. Try blog.monkeyfilter.com. The sidebar link is the old URL anyway, and I guess we forgot to redo the forwarding.
  • You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file.
  • The link 3 comments up is what I get when I try to enter my blog from the sidebar, tracicle.
  • Thanks ye for the suggestion ... and now that I've got in over there, alas, I can't post anything because there's no place to sign in. /bitchbitchbitch
  • Blog link now directs to an entry from July 7th. I think we can take it there's some tweaking going on right now.
  • *can't read*
  • I found a better template which has a handy built-in login link for you. Damn, you're going to love the template. LOVE IT.
  • Man, it must be nice to be in a school where your biggest concern is student writing aesthetics.
  • I never did get my Parker Penmanship certificate.
  • Unfortunately it got jammed in the copier. But the love is there.
  • I ca'nt spel And i hav turabl punchewashon but my wandhriting is teh wurst!
  • ...and the link is not there and my blog doesn't work and the sky is FAALLLIIINNNGGG!!!!!
  • Bees, try this
  • Thanks islander. That place is demented: it finally 404ed me. Now it thinks I'm a spammer, curse it.
  • it's the alligator. err sorry the croc. Wait . . no that's an alligator on the Croc Hunter theme! The Imperial Senate will not sit still for this! *storms out*
  • the alligator keeps eating my comments it thinks I'm a spammer still, I guess
  • Kept getting extreme delays, then 500 errors a short while ago, not on my blog but on MoFi, tracicle. Seems to be working again now. Bizarre.
  • Many of the best people who are shaping the Web are intelligent, ambitious, barking mad, and apparently blind. Sounds a little like Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Growing pains, bees! They're messin' with it. And with us. Heh.
  • tick, I rather suspect they've been asleep. Just got back into MoFi after another series of 500 blockages - server error, it says. But what do I know?
  • I had the same trouble, bees - expect it'll go away before long.
  • I had about 503 blockages - took some metamucil and now I am poo flinging happy! /flings poo and runs!
  • Whoo, yeah. Yesterday was orfal! I'm sure ya'll were upset that you couldn't read any posts from me. Prolly kept you up all night!
  • 500 errors? I wouldn't bother updating that many times.
  • 500 errors again about 14 hours ago. Ye can't get into MFi at all while it's happening, and if it's something to do with the server ... ?
  • It's all on the blog.
  • Ah. The mystery explained. Thanks, tracicle.