i thought the one about the wite-out on the screen was pretty good, but this is simply The Best Blonde Joke Ever. seriously, i rolled.

can anyone tell me why new york social diary suddenly decided to turn away from the polo match and start shooting sluts in L.A.?

hooray!

ex-gay blog! srsly! lolz!!!!!!1

here’s why. and rather than come up with silly technological workarounds, like this article describes, i suggest you stop using the antiquated old typeface entirely and use something designed for the computer—not the typewriter.

try vera from bitstream. it’s a full suite of free, professionally designed faces created specifically for the monitor. the suite has serif, sans, serif, and mono-width versions. while i still like georgia better for text, vera is a really good solution to the horrible dissonance common in onscreen typography. i use this for all my reading at home.

reuters pictures of the year from 2005. seems to be split evenly between human tragedy and showbiz. which is which is entirely up to you.

gehry has his ass handed back to him on a plate. i wish someone had the sense to do this before chicago okayed that piece of lazy thinking downtown. notice how it appears to be completely unfinished from any angle but the front. the view above, rollercoasterish as it is, is pretty much what is seen from randolph as the viewer approaches the park. just awful.

does advertising work? really well-discussed thread over at ask metafilter. surprisingly flame-free, considering the site’s libertarian bent versus the subject matter.

oh look. the print industry doesn’t know it’s lost its job. (via tony)

hey kids! pop quiz! why is nobody remarking upon how tasteless it is for a journalist to be given so much press over an injury (rosenthal over at the trib is going down on the guy now, and seriously, there’s nothing i like to picture more first thing on monday morning that an adult-onset diabetes sufferer going down on a somewhat handsome journalist in an embarrassingly public act of hero worship—wait sorry, got preoccupied) when so many soldiers have been killed in the same circumstance?

because reporters, you big silly, make history happen. they’re more important. and unfortunately, that means when something happens to a journalist, we have to hear about it in the shrillest tones possible.