Lions & Tigers & Bears, &c.

Brazilian graphic designer, typographer, artist, and children's book author Roberto De Vicq De Cumptich has a beautiful website up called Bembo's Zoo, an animated flash accompaniment to his children's picture book of the same name. The premise of the zoo, naturally, is that all of its animals are composed of letters from the classic Bembo typeface (which Stephen Heller explicated enthusiastically and geek-ily in an NYTimes book review, saying that "You do not have to be a type maven to enjoy the conceit of Bembo's Zoo. But it would not be surprising if, after you spend some time with the book, Bembo becomes your favorite typeface."). It's a beautiful little site (the dragon and the turtle are my two favorites, personally), for the typography geeks in all of us.

In Honor of the Ides of March, I Give You "Completely Useless Latin Phrases 101"

Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
Intendum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum.

May you always misuse the subjunctive!
Utinam modo subiunctivo semper male utaris!

My dog ate it.
Canis meus id comedit.

I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

Oh yeah? Your mother!
Itane? Tua mater!

If you can read this, you are both very well educated and much too close.
Si hoc legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades.

No Wonder Google's Taking Over the World

I just discovered that if you type "pi" (or "e" or "k" or "h") into Firefox's Google searchbar the actual value of the constant appears! So amazing!!

R = V/I

Only ThinkGeek would sell earrings made from resistors...