Why read it? See it!

via PopURLs

Happy post-Thanksgiving! Things have been pretty quiet around the ole blog what with the lead-up to Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving itself, and the trytophan– and shopping-induced post-Thanksgiving weariness that inevitably follows. With all this holiday lethargy around us, how can we possibly be expected to read things (like this blog) without falling asleep? I, for one, have no such expectations.

So, to ease oneself back into the fast-paced information age, today I’m recommending the Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online. For instance, this is how they define uses for the Internet:


Isn’t that so much better than some long-winded explanation from an IT professional?

Hmmm, they don’t seem to have blogs on their pictogram anywhere… but they do have educational institutions, so I guess we’re covered.

Of Fawnt and dafont

via Daring Fireball (from a couple of weeks ago)

There was I time when I was crazy for fonts. I would collect and pore over the typeface catalogs from Adobe, Monotype, ITC, and Emigre and dream of the day when I would own every font in the world.

Nowadays, with everyone and their uncle (or aunt) creating fonts I’ve given up on my plans of world font domination. There’s also the fact that owning every commercially-available font would be prohibitively expensive and having zillions of fonts loaded on my computer would cause Adobe apps to take eight hours to open (Microsoft Word could take up to three weeks to launch).

But, for those of you still clinging to your font fetishes, here are a couple of sites to enable your addiction:

Fawnt.com

Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web's highest quality fonts

dafont.com

Welcome. Here you can download fonts to use in your documents, create titles or logos.

I’ve perused both sites and have resisted the urge to download all the free fonts. I can just look at them and appreciate them. Yeah.

Well, maybe I’ll just try one.