An exceedingly cool photograph of “urban typography” and a web comic you should be reading.

An ill-humoured man is a prisoner at the mercy of an enemy from whom he can never escape.

— Sa'di

I don't do the “link blog” thing very often, but this is just too cool not to acknowledge: urban typography.

And since this is just a link blog thing, if you're not reading xkcd, you're missing out on a real treasure of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Goto and Lisp Cycles seem to be popular at the moment. In no particular order, Su Doku, Self-Reference, Digital Rights Management, Science, Beliefs, Pointers, and E TO THE PI TIMES I are among my favorites. And, recently, RTFM.

Comments:

My fave will always be Regular Expressions. Partly because I've never bought the "... now you have two problems" bit.

Posted by Dorothea on 03 Aug 2007 @ 01:15pm UTC #

Now you have two problems?

Posted by Norman Walsh on 03 Aug 2007 @ 01:25pm UTC #

Referring to Jamie Zawinski's famous saw:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I’ll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."

from comp.lang.emacs.

Posted by Howard on 03 Aug 2007 @ 02:50pm UTC #

Rewritten by me thus:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know! I'll use a computer!" Now they have 10,000 problems.

Posted by John Cowan on 06 Mar 2008 @ 03:53pm UTC #
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