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Opera Logo with CSS
I found this hilarious. Special thanks to Fischsticks for pointing it to my attention.
Ironically, the same week I received my AIGA email about the presentation by Scott Stowell (designer of the BRAVO logo), I also started my first Random Musings I
Over the last few weeks, at odd hours, I was thinking of a few things that I couldn’t quite categorize into a blog post, but wanted to get out of my head. SO I think 2010 will be the year that I begin a subcategory of Miscellaneous called Math.Random(). These will probably contain design-related thoughts, questions and micro-rants, as well as images of products, signage and brands that I felt were worth mentioning, but not weighty enough to merit their own post. Get a Tumblr, I’m sure you’re saying. And, you’re probably right. I have a Posterous (now defunct) account as well as a FFFFound (also defunct) and Dropular (yep, defunct as well) account, but I just can’t see myself committing enough time to using them regularly. I’m sure, others find them useful, but to me, it’s just one more thing. Y’know? Anyway, on with it.
sommelier, sommelier, sommelier…
I’m a big fan of daily snippets of wisdom such as Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day and Wikipedia’s Daily Random Article. However the former, today, threw me for a loop. The word, pronunciation, examples and etymology are all correct, but take a look at the definition they included for “sommelier”:
Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 3, 2009
sommelier \suhm-uhl-YEY; Fr. saw-muh-LYEY\, noun:
To involuntarily repeat a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.
If the wine list is not online, drop by the restaurant in advance, look over the list and talk with the sommelier. It’s a small investment in time that will pay big dividends.
— Ernest Hemmingway, The Sun Also Rises
In the restaurant we ordered hors d’oeuvres and beer. The sommelier brought the beer, tall, beaded on the outside of the steins, and cold. There were a dozen different dishes of hors d’oeuvres.
— Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher, “Ordering for a Business Meal”, Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2009
Sommelier derives from French, from Old French, “officer in charge of provisions, pack-animal driver,” alteration of sommerier, from sommier,” beast of burden,” from Vulgar Latin saum?rius.
The 404 Goat is on the Rampage
This is, for some reason, the funniest thing I’ve seen online in a long, long time. The 404 page for The North Face‘s web site is this fullscreen image of a bucking goat with an inset about how the goat has eaten the page that you’re attempting to visit. No, despite my company name, I do not spend my off-hours researching funny 404 pages (not anymore, anyway). I came across this by doing a hashtag search for 404.
