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18 Apr 2009 19:14

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Offbeat, Tech: The guy behind Comic Sans talks about his reviled creation

  • If you love it, you don’t know much about typography. If you hate it, you really don’t know much about typography, either, and you should get another hobby.
  • Vincent Connare • The guy who created Comic Sans in the early ’90s. Connare made it for a singular purpose in Microsoft Bob and now the font has become the bane of the man’s existence. He currently works as a typographer for Dalton Maag. • source
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18 Apr 2009 18:47

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Biz, Music: Go in a record store today and buy a cool physical disc

  • reasoning Independent record stores may be in declining in influence and popularity, but they’re still institutions worth supporting. Which is why Record Store Day which started in 2007, came about.
  • events Numerous bands – big and small – are chipping in to support the institutions, both via live performances and special record-store-only releases. So what are you waiting for? source
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18 Apr 2009 18:33

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Sports: Celtics curse evidence is mounting: The Bulls get a Game 1 upset

Chicago > Boston: Yeah, there’s not a lot going right about this postseason so far for the defending champs. source
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18 Apr 2009 18:23

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U.S.: Martin Luther King had a dream. His kids had a payday.

  • $120 million the cost of the forthcoming Martin Luther King memorial on the National Mall in D.C., to be paid for with private funds
  • $800,000 in fees amount King’s children are charging the memorial’s organizers for using King’s words and likeness in fund-raising materials source
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18 Apr 2009 15:27

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Sports: Finally with a team again, Gary Sheffield reaches his milestone

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18 Apr 2009 15:17

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Offbeat: Whoa: Despite getting shot in the head, she offered the police tea

  • There’s no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God. You just don’t hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they’re dead.
  • Jackson County, Miss. Sheriff Mike Byrd • On the miraculous survival of Tammy Sexton, who was shot squarely in the forehead by her husband, who killed himself afterward. Sexton, despite having a bullet go through her brain, did not seem to suffer serious brain damage, and even offered the police a beverage (and made herself tea) when they came to look into the incident. • source
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18 Apr 2009 15:07

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Offbeat: Nasal irrigation: Strange concept, good for your health

Pouring a teapot-like device into your nostrils sounds like a bizarre fetish, but really, it’s supposed to clear your sinuses. source
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18 Apr 2009 14:51

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Biz, U.S.: Know those giant fitness balls? They’re getting recalled en masse

  • The “burst-resistant” balls apparently burst. If you go to a gym where someone’s stretching on a big plastic ball, or are in an office where someone at their desk is sitting on a giant ball claiming it helps their back, you’ve seen ’em. Apparently, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (along with manufacturer EB Brands) is voluntarily recalling 3 million of the balls, saying that they can burst when overinflated, causing the person sitting on them to fall. The company, which manufactures them under such brand names as Everlast and and Valeo, received 47 reports of just that sort of thing happening. Yikes. source
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18 Apr 2009 14:30

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U.S., World: Obama seems to be wowing hard-nosed Latin American leaders

  • Eight years ago with this same hand I greeted Bush. I want to be your friend.
  • Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez • Speaking to President Barack Obama during the Summit of the Americas. Chavez, one of Bush’s harshest critics (and Bush, conversely, one of his), seems to actually like Obama and his approach to diplomacy. We expect in a couple of weeks Chavez and Obama will be having slumber parties in the capitals of their respective countries, playing Wii, watching South Park, playing fetch with the dog and eating cold pizza. • source
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18 Apr 2009 13:26

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Biz: Newsrooms are looking like ghost towns nowadays

  • -5,900 number of newsroom jobs that disappeared in 2008; 46,700 staffers managed to avoid losing their jobs in the process
  • -11.3% the percentage decline in newsroom jobs; newsrooms are back to staffing levels they last saw in the early 1980s. source
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