Simply Jonathan

Archive for 2007

Cut Israel Off – by Charley Reese 

Great analysis of the problem with Israel

Them

They won the election. Damn it.

Oversættelse, men så ikke alligevel

(This post is in Danish)

Hvorfor er det, at man på dansk tager fremmedord til sig, som ikke betyder det samme på originalsproget? Det klassiske eksempel er “flûte” — et ord der betyder “fløjte” på originalsproget (fransk), men som er betegnelsen for det, man på fransk kalder “baguette”.

type basics 

Permanent location of 'type basics'

Quite neat guide to the basics of type creation.

Nick Cave – Brother, my cup is empty

I counted all my blessings, and I counted only one.

Dock

The new dock in Leopard is a little odd, but it’s a little cool that it reflects application windows if they get close enough. Useless, but quite cool. It’s just a shame that it doesn’t reflect the cursor — that would complete it.

John Lennon – God

God is a concept,
By which we measure our pain

Comic Sans and the future

I’m afraid that when people in the future are going to depict type from our time, they will use Comic Sans. Consider this: Comic Sans is awfully popular, and the important thing for typography in a movie isn’t to be pretty, but to be authentic.

I hope this won’t be the case, but I’m scared.

Re: Wulffmorgenthaler of October 30th

The problem with this, despite being not really funny, is that only Hitler wanted global domination. Neither Lenin nor Saddam wanted. I like Wulffmorgenthaler normally, though.

/dev/random

Ryan Tomayko on Google Docs:

You have a better chance at validity from /dev/random.

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Jonathan Holst is a programmer, language enthusiast, sports fan, and appreciator of good design, living in Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe. He is also someone pretentious enough to call himself the 'author' of a blog. And talk about himself in the third person.