Investigator Jonathan Ryder sent us this image which, he reports, “came with an Evenflo Tribute 5 Child Restraint System.” The diagram warns owners “DO NOT place rear-facing child seat on front seat with air bag“. The drawing makes a further injunction against placing the device in the driver’s seat. Ryder commends the manufacturers for this— he […]
Are sans-serif fonts difficult to read?
Some researchers contend that sans-serif fonts — characters that have no adorning caps and shoes — are difficult to read. Here is an example of a sans-serif font. Called “leg hair font”, it was designed, says the Asiajin blog, by a Tama Art University student called Mayuko: (Thanks to investigator Mark Dionne for bringing this to […]
So you like big numbers…
If you enjoy thinking about big numbers, track down a copy of this article, and have yourself a merry time: “Beyond the infinite – tracking bacterial gene expression,” Jack A. Gilbert [pictured here], Microbiology Today. vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 82-86. May 2010. “IF THE NUMBER of known stars in the Milky Way is multiplied by the […]
He climbed a chimney to see an asteroid
The strange story (stranger still as told here, machine-translated into English by the Chrome browser) of a strange man with a strangely strong desire to see an asteroid, reported (in French) in Est Republicain: He Wanted to See The Asteroid: A Madman Stuck on a Chimney A madman who wanted to see the passage of […]