When normal people find something left behind, in a place of business (like a bar), that someone will likely want to have back (like an iPhone), they leave it with someone who works there (like the bartender). Then, the person who left it behind has a way to check if anyone has returned it. Taking it is stealing.

Gizmodo probably suspected that the prototype iPhone they bought was stolen. By now, they’ve made back the purchase price in page views, with a healthy return on top to help cover legal fees.

And if you think any of this will hurt the new iPhone’s sales, I have a bridg^H^H^H^H^Hphone to sell you.

I’m not sure how much I buy it, but this scathing critique of Farmville is a must read.

Finally received prints of my two new rapid-prototyped 3-d sculptures: a revised version of Trapped Outside:

And a three-dimensional, assemble-it-yourself version of the Union Jack Cube:

Very clever parody of web browsers as transportation technology:

But Safari as a fixed-gear? Really? At least make it a 24-speed with a carbon-fiber frame or something.

Following his hilarious Ten Ways to Wreck Your Database, Josh Berkus outlines ten ways to destroy your open-source community. When I started at BitTorrent back in 2005, it had long been guilty of 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10, and it never recovered.

After years of work and months of polishing, I’m happy to announce that five of my fonts are now available for purchase at MyFonts.com! Between now and March 10th, you can get any of these fonts for 30% by entering the promotion / gift certificate code BLOGMAR10 at checkout.

• Anadolu, $39.99 ($27.99 with the promo code)
• Ljubljana, $29.99 ($20.99 with the promo code)
• Haylurker, $49.99 ($34.99 with the promo code)
• Breuckelen, $19.99 ($13.99 with the promo code)
• Zenith, $9.99 ($6.99 with the promo code)

If anyone has any problems whatsoever ordering these fonts or getting the promotional discount, email me.

Rant about strings in Ruby 1.9:

What other language requires you to understand this level of complexity just to work with strings?!

(discussion on HN).

The authors of Typewar have posted this dendrogram of typeface similarity, based on statistics from the game:

The big stumper is that Optima is apparently one of the more difficult to distinguish faces.

(via brainsik.)

Mike Giant’s caricature of the modern San Franciscan:

I gotta get me a copy of this “Tracer T” program:

I’ve heard you can also use a program called “Pin G” to view people’s PIN numbers.

(note: if you’re not a hacker this will make zero sense to you, but trust me, it’s hilarious.)