30 Dec 2003

And I Thought I Was Bad

Among the many things that Google is useful for is its ability to serve as a poor man's spell checker. You can type a single word into the search box and - if spelled correctly - the blue tab bar at the top of the results reads "Searched English pages for ." Clicking on this word will take you to Dictionary.com.

I was posting over at mt.net today and wanted to make sure that I had spelled the word "scourge" correctly, so I used Google to check it out.

The point of all this is that in searching for "scourge" I came across this article entitled "The Scourge of Arial". It's essentially an elitist diatribe from some designer about how the Arial font - the bedrock font in all Windows systems - is the white trash of fonts.

Now I know that I write some pretty lengthy rants about stuff that's pretty stupid, but I think this guy might have me beat. :)