Tuesday various

  • Dyslexie, A Typeface Designed To Help Dyslexics Read. [via]
  • Sure, it was silly and ridiculous when it happened on The Office, but it can be deadly serious when your GPS gives you the wrong information. [via]

    Suddenly, that suggestion that mapmakers sometimes intentionally include false information to prevent copyright infringement sounds fairly irresponsible.

  • On the pleasures of dining alone [via]
  • Speaking of food, this may be the most horrific thing I’ve ever seen. And I watch Bizarre Foods pretty regularly. Seriously, it’s perfectly SFW, but you may want to exercise caution visiting that link, much less watching the video. It’s of a “dancing squid” in a Japanese restaurant, reportedly, and it seems like nothing more than cruelty masquerading as novelty.

    I am not a vegetarian, and I’ve eaten squid. I quite enjoyed the calamari I had on Saturday evening, for instance. But I think we have an obligation towards the food that we eat, the animals that we kill to sustain us. If they give up their lives, they deserve a quick an merciful end. They do not deserve to be toyed with like this.

    That said, if it’s fake…I’m not sure I feel a whole better about it. Although there’s a lot of evidence and commentary (here as well) to suggest it’s real.

  • And finally, on a happier note, Monty Python member Graham Chapman isn’t going to let a little thing like being dead stand in the way of his making a new movie.

3 thoughts on “Tuesday various”

  1. I remember from several Anthody Bourdain shows that asian food cultures frequently serve squid and octopus extremely fresh, going so far as to cut them up at the diner’s table while the animal is still alive, a practice I find deeply disturbing.

    • I don’t have an issue, necessarily, with “extremely fresh” meaning “we kill it at the table (or thereabouts), but that’s my absolute limit. To eat an animal, any animal, while it’s still alive, or to hack off bits to eat while the rest of the poor thing struggles to die — or, in this case, poor hot liquid on it to make it dance — that’s just beyond cruel and disgusting.

  2. What a weirdly big deal to make about eating by yourself. Seriously, is it just me who thinks it’s a wonderful thing that there are places you can go to sit read while people bring you food? How is that not awesome? Why do more people not do this? I really do not understand my fellow human beings.

    And I am so not watching that squid video. Just reading your description is a little upsetting.

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