* Posts by Arezzo

6 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Mar 2015

Boffins say they can turn typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy

Arezzo

A wet boffin never flies at night.

Microsoft kicks Calibri to the curb for Aptos as default font

Arezzo

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Font design in the modern age consists largely of adding eccentricities and making tweaks, not always pleasing, intended to render long existing fonts more quirky and appealing to modern folk. Some of this "design" consists of outright theft and renaming. The best font designs were created centuries ago and retain the qualities that have caused them to persist for so long. Technology does sometimes require certain changes and refinements, but this might more accurately be called "font editing."

A Hughes failure: Flat Earther rocketeer can't get it up yet again

Arezzo

What a relief. It looked for a moment like The Register might publish a story that did not contain "boffin."

Burn all the coal, oil – No danger of sea level rise this century from Antarctic ice melt

Arezzo

I don't understand. "Boffin" doesn't appear in the headline.

WikiLeaks slips out YET MORE Sony SECRETS

Arezzo

Mirror, mirror

Which is the most boring, Sony or Wikileaks?

Menopausal killer whales are wise old birds

Arezzo

The Register leads the way in cutsie-pie names for scientists.