Talk about hitting the nail on the head. I would say which one made me giggle, but then I am sure I would get a call from my boss or something :-)

Verdana...the font everyone likes to hate. I really have no idea why so many peopel hate the font. Is simple, alllot like Helvetica and is very useful for website content. Not complex, renders well on small or larger  devices, but I guess anything used too much is automatically hated. Personally I like the font, but can understand it it getting a little overplay and is a easy solution in a pinch...  I still use it on my website, but now with 24" 1080P monitors flying everywhre, font smotthing technology, maybe its time for a new font to be king.

Anyways, ran across this interesting article about how IKEA, those awesome swedish furniture people, switch to using verdana in their marketing campaing and print material..

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1919127,00.html

I've always been fascinated with information display ( hence why I am a web-guy) so running across this site a few months ago is almost as addictive as bejeweled.

http://www.visualeconomics.com/


I know there is one other site I ran across but it doesn't come to mind.

and yes I've read Tufte's books... Any other suggestions?
 

Glad the city council is on the side of the officer.. Yes there is common courtesy, but hey if you don't have your license, you don't have it and avoiding a DUI check will almost certianly get you pulled over..

from: http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8471349

Cpl. Joshua Rowell told KSL News he was just doing his job. He said he acted professionally when he wrote the driver a ticket and was shocked when he was suddenly asked to hand over his badge.

Rowell is a new member of the five-man Stockton police force. So, last Tuesday he didn't think twice about pulling over a driver in a small white car for avoiding a DUI stop.

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"He didn't have a driver's license, so I issued him a citation for that," Rowell explained.

He didn't think twice, that is, until he handed the ticket to the court clerk.

"She looked at it and said, ‘Hey, you know you just gave the mayor's son a ticket?' And I said, ‘Oh, crap,'" Rowell said.

He said he had never met the driver, 29-year-old Jared Rydalch, before. He said Rydalch told him he was out looking for his dog, and asked him to tell the other officers to not pull him over again.

"I told him, ‘No. If I see you driving around again, I'm going to pull you over again,'" Rowell said.

Rowell said he knew there was trouble when, about 20 minutes later, he found the chief of police in the mayor's truck in a heated discussion. Then he said the mayor, Dan Rydalch, rolled down the window and demanded he get in his truck. When he refused, Rydalch abruptly fired him on the spot.

"He told me, ‘All right, I want your badge in the morning,'" Rowell said. "I tried to defend myself and say, ‘First of all, look, he was breaking the law. Second of all, I didn't know he was your son.'"

Shortly after the incident, Rowell was told he was suspended without pay, indefinitely.

"The mayor, I think, was wrong," said Stockton City Council member David Durtschi.

According to Durtschi, not only was Mayor Rydalch out of line, the council stands behind Cpl. Rowell. In fact, the town is so upset about the mayor's actions, many of the citizens are trying to change their write-in ballots for the upcoming election.

"I think the mayor did make a mistake," one Stockton resident told KSL News.

Another said, "I was very shocked, very shocked, because I thought it was a little extreme."

As for Rowell, he just wants the job he loves back.

"There's no more respectable position than a police officer, in my mind," Rowell said.

We tried repeatedly to get in touch with the mayor.

Another Stockton city council member, Kendall Thomas, told KSL News the mayor is conducting the investigation into any wrongdoing in the incident and has not consulted any of the council members. A special council meeting is scheduled for Thursday night to discuss the incident.

E-mail: jstagg@ksl.com