Yay. The Tonight Show’s website has moved, and the official Headlines archive is back!

Are the music directors at Volvo’s ad agency old-school Napster fans or something? There was a Volvo ad running for a while that used Nortec Collective’s “Polaris” as background music; and more recently, I’ve seen another ad which uses DJ Logic’s “Michelle”– both songs which were heavily touted on Napster’s website back in the day.

If you thought the Lego animations of Spite Your Face were neat, you’ll really enjoy Michel Gondry’s video for the White Stripes’ "Fell In Love With A Girl".

Y’know, I really should start writing down the various amusing quotations that I overhear or, erm, “overread”. Granted, I’m easily amused– but hey, with such sites as InPassing.org and other quote journals, I think it’d be an interesting way of letting others peer into my rather unusual life.

I remember, when I got my first Windows machine, having tried to find the Helvetica clone in its font menu. There had to be one, right? I eventually stumbled across Arial, which was the closest thing I could manage to find– yet to my typographically nitpicky eye, it wasn’t close enough. The lowercase a, r and t, the capital G and R, and the number 1— they were all noticeably off somehow. And it annoyed me. Yes, I’m easily annoyed, I know.

It turns out that typographer Mark Simonson agrees with me on this subject; check out his quite interesting article "The Scourge of Arial".

What’s really annoying is that about half the signs on the Mercer University campus are in Helvetica (the older ones) and half of them are in Arial (the new ones). Grr. Am I the only one around here who notices such things?

And incidentally, for more typographical quibbles, check out Simonson’s article "Typecasting" on the anachronistic use of fonts in movies.

Heh. I was browsing through the magazine rack at the local drugstore and decided to look at the Backspace column in the May 21 issue of PC Magazine. The Pizza Hut map caught my eye, but it took me a few seconds to realize what seemed so oddly familiar about it: that’s my hometown being mapped.

And the kicker? Though the two alternate choices were full, dine-in restaurants, the location to which he was directed is a Pizza Hut Express take-out located within a strip mall.

An even more inexplicable hit from the server logs: freshmen were hypnotized. Wha?!

I was browsing through my server logs again (a great pastime for bored webmasters, heh), and came across this search request:

star wars download movie “attack of the clones” -trailer -xxx -vote -trailers -desktop -theme

What’s sad is that whoever did this search went through twenty-four pages of results that were probably more relevant, before stumbling across a completely unrelated blog archive here at zone38 that just coincidentally happened to contain all the terms they wanted and none of those they didn’t.

If you’re planning on travelling by airplane soon, you’d better make sure that your name isn’t some derivative of John Thomas. (link found on Metafilter)

Ouch: One web advertiser has clandestinely installed spyware on users’ systems through a browser exploit. There is so much wrong with that, I don’t know where to begin. [Link via Fark.com.]