Mar 06, 2004

Creepy Picture, or Foreshadowing of Headlines to Come?

Gothamist has a crazy, "what the hell is this?" captioning contest going on for this oddball snapshot of the the dueling baby michelles. Some of the write-ins are pretty hillarious.

Link to picture + captions


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Admitting Where it Sucks

Like anything, in order for Linux to improve, especially on the desktop, I think we need to look at the areas where it NEEDS to grow in order to be better, not just everything random that's "wrong" with it.

On the desktop, Firefox is well on it's way to rivaling and even beating IE. This is especially true on windows. On Linux, it's flagging for two main reasons.

1) Fonts

I know this has been beaten to death, and you can control the font size within mozilla, but for the life of me, I can't understand why you can't change the "proportional" font. It's The main, default font that firefox uses, and all you can select is "Serif" (aka times) or "Sans-Serif" (aka arial).

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