Category: links

• The Road to Clarity [NYT]
  “How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.”
  (tags: design newyorktimes transportation typography)
• Family memories in reel time [SF Chronicle]
  Selection of home movies from the San Francisco Media Archive, including a gorgeous widescreen montage of San Francisco scenes circa 1960.
  (tags: video homemovies sanfrancisco california sfchronicle)

• Queer Inc. [Fortune]
  “How Corporate America fell in love with gays and lesbians. It’s a movement.”
  (tags: business gay fortune)
• Guy Love [Scrubs]
  “JD and Turk sing about their love for each other and their relationship.”
  (tags: scrubs music television musicvideo nbc youtube video)

[Addendum: The “Guy Love” video is also available as a free download on iTunes. The musical episode of Scrubs will air on Jan. 18, 2007.]

• Who Wants to Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire? [Seed]
  A researcher uses his understanding of the human brain to advance on a popular quiz show.
  (tags: television science cognition seedmagazine)

• TV Dinners [New Yorker]
  The rise of food television.
  (tags: cooking food television foodnetwork newyorker)

• Gays in the military [Daily Show]
  Jason Jones interviews discharged Army linguist Bleu Copas and Family Research Institute chairman Paul Cameron.
  (tags: gay military army linguistics humor youtube comedycentral television dailyshow video)
• Two Fathers [Kinderen voor Kinderen]
  “Twee Vaders,” a song about having two dads, performed on the Dutch children’s music show “Kinderen voor Kinderen.” (Dutch with English subtitles)
  (tags: gay parenting children music netherlands europe dutch youtube video)
• The Arcade Wire: Airport Security [Persuasive Games]
  “See if you’ve got what it takes to keep airline travel safe in this hysterical game of airport security.”
  (tags: travel politics humor games flash)
• In Search of Grocery Gems [NYT]
  “A full day’s worth of irreproachably good food, courtesy of your local supermarkets, beginning with breakfast.”
  (tags: food products nyt)

• Websites as graphs – an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet
  Creates an organic-looking representation of any web page, with several types of HTML tags shown as colored dots.
  (tags: webdesign informationdesign)

• Mac ad spoofs [TrueNuff]
  “Macs are great. So are PCs. So are toasters — what’s your point? It’s just a computer, get over it.”
  (tags: advertising humor parody mac apple video)

• You’re On Notice!
  Create your own “on notice” board a la Stephen Colbert on “The Colbert Report.”
  (tags: humor colbertreport stephencolbert comedycentral tv)