Mar 21, 2013

You may find a lot of posts online that talk about the overuse of the font Comic Sans. My attention was drawn to Comic Sans this afternoon when a colleague pointed out a web site that used Comic Sans throughout, both as a display (i.e., headline) font and as a body (i.e., text) font.
But what’s really at issue here? (more…)
Feb 13, 2013
It is about this time of year when we begin to sense that spring is coming. We’ve forgotten July’s heat. Black oaks are still hanging on to a few remaining leaves. Most trees are stark and bare, and there’s little movement on the ground, save the plastic shopping bags that no one has had the heart to pluck from the brittle limbs. Ah, what a lovely time for Valentine’s Day.
I began to wonder whether the timing of the holiday was devised specifically for this heartless, cold, bare time of year or was simply the work of the Hallmark Company.
According to Wikimedia, Valentine’s Day was once a pagan festival named after two Christian martyrs named Valentine. In fact, there were so many religious martyrs named Valentine that, until 1969, the Catholic Church recognized 11 different Valentine’s Days. (more…)
Jan 27, 2013

Video Wisconsin’s online editing studio circa 2007
If anyone is still trying to sell you offline and online editing prices for video editing, please sell THEM a bottle of snake oil.
What I’m telling you is really old news … I hope no one has been selling either of these since 2004 or so. HOWEVER, the reason why I’m writing this is that I just ran into two fairly recent (Bright Hub and Creative Cow) mentions of offline and online editing and want to make sure we quash any stragglers. (more…)