Ah, finally. After years suffering with Lucida Console or that nasty raster font, there’s a way to switch to a decent monospaced font, Consolas, in the Windows cmd.exe windows.
Category: Etc
Everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else
Portishead is finally coming out with a new album, Third. Last.fm has the full album available for a test listen, and you can pre-order it over on Amazon. So far, I really like it, but I think I’m going to wait to see if it becomes available through the MP3 store before diving in.
(via Nelson)
A crazy pop-up alphabet book
Wow. What an amazing little pop-up alphabet book.. Maybe we’ll get this for Jack when he’s learning his ABC’s?
via Drawn!
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
From an article on elevator safety in the New Yorker:
An average of twenty-six people die in (or on) elevators in the United States every year, but most of these are people being paid to work on them. That may still seem like a lot, until you consider that that many die in automobiles every five hours.
Remember that number. Around twenty-six people die in cars every five hours. Remember it when you read any other statistic involving deaths related to a product over the course of a year to help you keep perspective on how big the risk really is.
An Affair to Remember
Damn that’s a pretty font. From an interview with Neil Summerour over on I Love Typography.

