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...back to being just Prince. I anticipate tons of "humorous" references to him as The Artist-Formerly-but-now-Currently-Known-As-Prince. But the name change is a good thing. For one, it saves me time, since the Crimson doesn't have that weird symbol-thing among its font files. Here's my best attempt at creating it using standard keyboard characters: O!+~. Anyone have any better efforts...
...shown two years ago in England to no controversy and that this kind of discourse on the First Amendment should have been resolved before the turn of the last century. The main source of the fuss is that "Sanitation" displays the quotations from Giuliani and company in Gothic Fraktur font, a typeface often associated with the Nazis. The mayor has therefore accused Haacke of portraying him as a Nazi and concurrently trivializing the Holocaust. Objectively, Gothic Fraktur is more of a nationalistic font than a Nazi one. It is based on medieval German designs, and was certainly not the creation...
...also pretty cool to record my verbal ramblings as .wav files, which could be uploaded later to my PC. And I was thoroughly impressed with the first appearance of Microsoft's Clear Type technology, which lets you read downloaded books in a font as crisp as any on a printed page. (Because of copyright hassles, most Clear Type books won't arrive until the end of the year. In the meantime, feast your eyes on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which are provided free with your machine, courtesy of Microsoft...
...sold every day. A typical bottle holds about a quarter of a gallon. That's over a billion coated wrap-around paper labels to buy every morning. The Non-Traditional Purchasing Department does the buying, and they do it very carefully. When millions of dollars move with each font change, after all, the more MBA's the merrier. As Ping put it, "Looking at a bottle, you wouldn't think hundreds of people did months of work just to switch a type of adhesive used in gluing the label to the bottle...
...dark. You walk here through a landscape of atavistic myth, in what can seem a Blair Witch island. Winds from Antarctica roar over broken stone heads and toppled statues in the bare earth. In the local church, the Virgin Mary is a staring-eyed moai, and the baptismal font sits atop a carved head. "Y2K," in the blustery quiet, sounds a lot like "Why today...