After the infamous Bonsai Kitten, I proudly present the Pint Kitten. Hey, it’s Friday…
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Smarty Pants
Most normal, mentally stable individuals do not take notice of proper typographic punctuation. Many design and typography nerds, however, break out in a nasty rash when they encounter, say, a restaurant sign that uses a straight apostrophe to spell “Joe’s”.
Who said I was normal? I’m installing this… Now I wonder if it will deal correctly with the french style «guillemets»
[Via A Frog in the Valley]
700-year-old picture of ‘Mickey Mouse’
How’s that for a first publication? Can’t wait to see the St-Christopher Copyright Extension Act extend retroactively to the 14th century!
What appears to be a 700-year-old picture of Mickey Mouse has been discovered on a church fresco in Austria.
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« It is most likely to be a drawing of a beaver or a weasel. »
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However, Carinthia’s tourism office is already thinking of ways to cash in on the sketch.
Siggi Neuschitzer, manager of the Malta Tourism Association, said: « The similarity of the painting to Mickey Mouse is so astounding that the Disney concern could even lose its world-wide copyright licence.
« Our Mickey Mouse is 700 years older than Disney’s and we will get it legally examined. »
Dream on!
[via Ananova’s quirkies]