Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Return to the Age of Conan

Written by anthony. Posted on 17 July, 2009. Filed under Miscellaneous, Opinion. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Funcom is currently giving ex-players of Age of Conan the chance to come back and try the game for 2 weeks for free. If you sign up for a subscription at the same time they’ll even give you 20% off and through in some nice in-game items. Being particularly interested in MMO games from an interactive [...]

Ban Comic Sans

Written by anthony. Posted on 14 May, 2009. Filed under Funny, Miscellaneous. Tagged , , . No comments.
The designer of the typeface Comic Sans, Vincent Connare, was interviewed on the Australian radio show ByDesign a few days ago — you can listen to the interview here. The ban Comic Sans movement seems to have surfaced again, reminiscent of the death to Helvetica movement initiated by Letterbox (been there, got the tshirt). It’s [...]

Google street view

Written by anthony. Posted on 8 August, 2008. Filed under Miscellaneous. No comments.
I noticed a small white car with Google branding and a massive collection of cameras on it’s roof driving in front of a bus I was on the other week. It seems Google are photographing the whole world with fish eye cameras to enable you to bring up images of streets within Google maps. You’ll [...]

Ten best type tshirt shops

Written by anthony. Posted on 18 June, 2008. Filed under Funny, Miscellaneous. Tagged , . No comments.
My name is Anthony and I like to collect typographic tshirts, I own about six and I’m always hovering over that little ‘add to cart’ button to add to my collection. I think it started when I bought a tshirt from a designer I met in Melbourne who devotes his professional life to protesting the [...]