Office 2007 is introducing new fonts that will change the way most documents will look and feel. It’s nice to see that Redmond is starting to focus on design at this level. Poynter Online has an interesting article detailing the fonts to be introduced when Office 2007 debuts.
Found on the Freakonomics blog:
Can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do? For the good of human kind, I’m about to find out. On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: “a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.”
As of Day 3, tester Adam Scott’s poop smells bad and he’s craving open-faced turkey sandwiches.
Update: Adam Scott’s also got a blog where he has a bit more detail on his monkey chow diet.
There’s a great article in today’s New York Times about a lawsuit between Dale Chihuly and a former employee cum competitor. Chihuly contends that Bryan Rubino is knocking off his glass designs and wants him to stop. It’s an interesting portrayal of Chihuly’s glass empire and contains such interesting bits as this: due to a surfing injury, for the last 27 years Chihuly hasn’t blown any of his own glass creations! I’ve seen a number of Chihuly installations, and really like his work, but I agree with one of the “experts” quoted in the article: Chihuly is bound to come off poorly in this endeavor. I imagine the public feeling a little bit like Dorothy when, after pulling back the curtain, she discovered the Wizard of Oz was someone rather ordinary.
