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Mediocre web typography is finally pining for the fjords.

eobanb — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:25:37 +0000

If you’ve got a reasonably modern browser (one that supports @font-face), you’ll probably see this new headline font now has ligatures. IE still sucks as usual. Chrome seems to have difficulty with ligatures on certain fonts, but I’m unsure as to whether it’s all fonts embedded with @font-face and not system fonts, or if it’s just kind of random.

The new font used is called Fontin Sans. It really is quite nice for both a body and headline font, I think.

Photos from Hungary

eobanb — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:50:04 +0000

Here are photos from Budapest, Hungary. I’ll have Austria/Switzerland up next. I can’t believe our trip’s only one more week!

Photos from Denmark and Germany

eobanb — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:14:10 +0000

I’ve been in Europe for about a week and a half so far, and it’s been great!

You can view my entire collection of photos on Flickr so far, organised chronologically by country. Here’s a preview:

The whole collection of photos on Flickr

Europe!

eobanb — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:37:17 +0000

Today I’m leaving on a one-month trip to Europe with Sarah, who has been studying in Copenhagen since January. Her program, DIS, ends this week, and at its conclusion we’ll be travelling through seven different countries: Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Austria, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Our primary method of travel will be train, used by us via Eurail. Although Google Maps doesn’t have train routes, here’s an approximation of our route.

I’ll be updating again soon with photos and more!

Finally, a new site design!

eobanb — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:33:13 +0000

Hey all; I’ve finally gotten around to working on eoban.com again. I’ve decided to re-launch it with the cleanest and most modern design I could come up with; my theme for WordPress, Knallertbanden. It’s been in use on Sarah’s site for a few months now, so my job is more or less to try and shape it into something a little more distinct for my own site…but as always, it’s a work in progress.

I’m pondering a ground-up redesign

eobanb — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:19:56 +0000

I’m pondering a ground-up redesign of my site. I’ll update again soon on this.

What a colossal waste of everyone’s time

eobanb — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:50:39 +0000

Here at Indiana University there’s been a controversy brewing for years now over the name of our Intramural Sports building. The building happens to be named after one of IU’s most prestigious trustees, Ora L. Wildermuth, who contributed quite a bit to IU and, at first glance, rightfully deserves to have a building named after him.

But that’d be all too easy. As it turns out, Wildermuth was a segregationist, an outright racist, who wrote numerous letters to Herman Wells urging him to keep black students from having the same opportunities as white students at IU. He specifically urged keeping the IU Hoosiers basketball, for instance, white-only.

And so, since the 70′s, there have been brouhahas every few years about the sports building’s name.

It all culminated in the last several days, when the IU board of trustees, after months of bitter conflict with student groups and alumni about the name, finally waved the white flag (well, sort of) and voted to append an additional name to the building, that of William L. Garrett, the first black IU Hoosier basketball player, who joined the team in 1948. Ironic, right? A segregationist and a black guy on a plaque together, probably for a long, long, long time. At last, everyone basically gets what they want.

Wait, not so fast!

As it turns out, the board of trustees forgot to ask Garrett’s widow, Betty, if she would be okay with her husband’s name going on the plaque with Wildermuth’s. Oops, and it looks like she isn’t, because she just contacted the board yesterday and told them they couldn’t put it on there.

Maybe if someone had asked her about this, oh, I don’t know 40 years ago, we wouldn’t have wasted years and years debating it. For better or for worse, Wildermuth’s name, alone, stays.

The new Tropicana design

eobanb — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:55:20 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks it’s great?

And I didn’t think anything could top the exercising poodles

eobanb — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:20:14 +0000

Dancing jailbait? check. corporate sponsorship? Check. Lipsync? Check. Simultaneous Lomo, hue/saturation, bluescreen and slow-mo effects? Check. Tay Zonday on the face of a $100 bill? check.

As I was watching it I said, ‘wait, did he just say *life is good with turbotax, we keep the money we make*? no, no, that couldn’t have been what he said.

But, alas, it was. That is exactly what he said.

I’VE INVENTED SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW

eobanb — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:50:16 +0000

BEHOLD, THE INTERROSMILEY

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BOW BEFORE HIM