257 - with Links!

1. Possession of Stolen Goods A Norman Rockwell painting stolen from a gallery in 1973 and thought to be missing for the last 34 years turned out to be in Stephen Spielberg's art collection. As soon as he realized the painting was stolen, Spielberg informed the FBI's Art Crime Team.

2. So Easy A TV Executive Could Have Thought of It I know a lot of people think that those Geico commercials are pretty funny, but are they really funny enough to support their own half hour sitcom. Time will tell.

3. Time Flies Are you tired of wasting time in the long lines at your local post office? Well the USPS has taken steps toward making this wait feel shorter. They are removing the clocks from their offices, so that you won't be aware of how long you wait.

4. Ban Comic Sans I usually don't really love the pretension of graphic designers and the derision they always express towards the world's favorite typefaces, but seriously, they are totally right this time.

5. Slots Build your own slot car race track and then race against a computer.

253 - Fonts

1. What the Font! Use this application to figure out the name of a font you want to use.

2. Lookalikes Since commercial fonts are often pretty expensive, use this site to find another font that looks close enough to make a good substitute for the real thing.

3. Are They Bootlegs After you have a few names for the font you want to use, search this site (or scour google) for one of those names.

4. Novelty If you need something to match a style but don't have a specific font in mind, you can look through dafont or simplythebest to find something useful.

5. Tack-O-Rama Tackorama has a lot of good fonts (as well as clipart and other images) divided up by specific eras.