Palate cleanse kid drawing
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Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
Under "things to check out someday" here's a new audio synthesis language from the creator of SuperCollider
github.com/lfnoise/sapf
I hate excitedly listening to a new album from an artist I've liked for a long time and it's pants.
Frog and Toad BotThen Toad felt very tired, and he fell asleep.
Low Quality Facts
I am just over everything.
'Oh, drat,' said Toad.
Tristan SnellAn innocent man is being executed Monday
— No DNA from him at crime scene, but DNA from 2 others on murder weapon
— Jury did NOT know about the DNA
— Prosecutors now agree he’s innocent
MO Gov. Mike Parson should do the RIGHT thing — pardon Marcellus Williams
Please RT this!
Dare ObasanjoThere are two professors named Kate Baker at the University of Cambridge. One works in the department of genetics studying pathogens while the other works in the department of pathology studying genetics.
A perfectly symmetrical coincidence.
