And I Thought I Was Bad
Among the many things that Google is useful for is its ability to serve as a poor man’s spell checker. You can type a single word into the search box and - if spelled correctly - the blue tab bar at the top of the results reads “Searched English pages for
I was posting over at mt.net today and wanted to make sure that I had spelled the word “scourge” correctly, so I used Google to check it out.
The point of all this is that in searching for “scourge” I came across this article entitled “The Scourge of Arial”. It’s essentially an elitist diatribe from some designer about how the Arial font - the bedrock font in all Windows systems - is the white trash of fonts.
Now I know that I write some pretty lengthy rants about stuff that’s pretty stupid, but I think this guy might have me beat. 
Thanks for the linkage, JG! Anyone who would post “scourge” on my weblog deserves some credit.
Maybe if Arial got off its lazy ass and got a job, it wouldn’t be such white trash.
You think you’re so cool just ’cause you’re Roman.
The blood of the infidel fonts will flood the streets and drown the mighty talons of the eagle. Praise Allah.
So a grasshopper walks into a bar and jumps up on a stool. The bartender comes over and says “Hey, you know we have a drink named after you”. And the grasshopper says “You have a drink named Ernie?”
(I’ll be here all ze week.)
Not to interrupt the wonderful banter of the many colorful not to mention useful fonts we all have through the power of Microsoft, but I heard on NPR today that Google’s going public soon. I may get in on that action early!
Unfortunately my crazy little text does not work in this silly little comment section. I bet Mr. Aerial has something to do with this….