Blogstop is a game played on a weblog, or in a comments section of a weblog entry. You must write an entry using the last word of the previous entry as the initial letter for each word of your entry. Have a look at the orginal game on blogstop, where there are some further rules and the metafilter post on it. Thanks to Ben Hammersley, on whose site I saw it first.
interesting things: July 2003 Archives
Funny game from Dan, based on the news that Arial now dominates as the standard font for everything for those not in the know. Mention of this prompted a round office discussion on fonts, showing a wide disparity in views, with the exception of Comic Sans, which was revilled.
Play here and help Helvetica win
Once upon a time I learnt an awful lot about glyphs, character encodings and fo(u)nts whilst working in localization, this taught me that fonts are kind of cool, not that I really know how to use them.
Slowly waking up this morning, as usual listening to the Today programme, I heard an article about the "British Library, which is planning to release its library of animal noises as mobile phone ringtones. I think this will be delightful and cacophonous. They have released 40 initially, at 4 quid each and have a further 10,000 they can release. You need a phone which can play polyphonic ringtones. Virtually every animal, snakes, lions, gorillas and lots of birds. I might even consider buying some of these.
They raised the delightful idea of associating certain ringtones with various people... full article on BBC news website and also on Newsround, the excellent BBC childrens news programme.
