Wanted: A monkey with eyesight problems
So today something happened that has never happened in all my years of computer use. I had to use Cmd+ (translation from Mac-speak: increase the text size) a website I was reading because the font was too small for my eyes.
When the hell did that happen?
I remember being in college working on a 14″ monitor with a Linux configuration that was decidedly unhealthy (read: the monitor could have blown up at any moment because of the hotrodded refresh rate) just so I could get the most screen real estate that I could. Now I find myself drawn toward Web 2.0-style websites simply because they are shiny and have big fonts.
*Insert your own geriatric chimpanzee joke here*
To try to deflect attention away from my vision deterioration I’ll leave with a link that was passed along to me.
It is a Flash based website for creating police-style artist renditions of faces. I have no idea what use something like this has, but who hasn’t wanted to see their face on a Wanted poster. Err, hmm, never mind about that.