Helsingin Sanomat is launching (in Finnish) some changes on Monday. Aside from the changes to the paper’s organization and section, the biggest change will be in the typefaces used. The new types, The AntiquaHS and QuaText, have been designed by Lucas de Groot, the man behind Calibri and Consolas.

Conspicuously missing is the big change that everyone’s been waiting for: switching from a broadsheet to a tabloid format.

I wish I could take a look at the revised paper, but I guess that’ll have to wait until I visit Finland next time.

It’s a bit amusing that Derek Powazek’s own rant-rebuttal is currently the number two result on Google for “SEO FAQ.”

And oh my, his URLs aren’t even optimized!

As a designer-slash-developer, I can definitely understand where Derek’s coming from. But I’m also willing to admit that there’s a legitimate place for specialized SEO experts. Maybe it’s like consultants and lawyers?

Movies I want to see (or see again), from Wired’s favorite sci-fi flicks (pre and post Star Wars).

• The Thing From Another World (1951)
• The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
• Solaris (1972)
• Silent Running (1972)
• Zardoz (1974)
• A Boy and His Dog (1975)
• Logan’s Run (1976)

• Capricorn One (1978)
• Stalker (1979)
• Outland (1981)
• Liquid Sky (1982)
• 2010 (1984)
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
• The Hidden (1987)
• Robocop (1987)
• The Iron Giant (1999)

And from the comments: Enemy Mine (1985) and Tron (1982).

Some movies I’d have added: West World, Barbarella, Battlestar Galactica, Back to the Future, The Last Starfighter, Total Recall, Strange Days, Dark City, Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (the best Trek movie by far), Fifth Element, Minority Report, Serenity.

Justin Blanton has a nice write-up of Palm Pre. I’ve been having a hard time understanding the excitement the Pre’s generated. Justin cleared up a lot.

Also, John Gruber’s point that only QWERTY-phone owners (I’m a happy one) will find touchscreen keyboards difficult, resonates with me.

Still, I can’t help wonder if maybe part of the appeal is that the US has a big history of PDAs.

Yay! My copy of 22’s first EP, ESP, has arrived!

When I first heard them, I sort of wrote them off as “musician’s music”, too technical for my taste. But after seeing them live — wow! — I totally heard the light! 22 is now my favorite band.

It’s also one of the only times I’ve seen a band live — three times now — before they’d released, well, anything.

You can get your’s from CDON, or give them a listen on Myspace or on Facebook.

Electric Eel Shock’s almost made its goal of raising $50 000 on Sellaband. Buy a stake in the band for $10 and you’ll get EES’s next record. Not a bad deal!

Joko sinä olet tilannut Lehden ennakkoon? 250 muuta on, vielä saman verran lisää tarvitaan.

On uskomatonta, että kahden virkkeen “biisi” voi jäädä soimaan päähän. Vaikka Kirkon Usko toivo rakkaus -kampanjan toimivuudesta voi olla monta mieltä, on tv-mainoksen lyhyeen katkeava luritus kummitellut päässäni jo useamman päivän. Huomasin kunnianhimoisesti tehdyssä kampanjasaitissa muutamia pikkumokia, kuten Videot-sivulla olevan tv-mainoksen urlin, tai, pahempana, julkkishaastattelujen huonon mikityksen.

Control theorist John Doyle has a simple plan to make the internet faster — just make the traffic measurements better. Doyle studies what makes free-scale networks robust:

“The reason the bacterium works so well, Doyle finds, is that it is organized in much the same way as the Internet. Both the Internet and E. coli are conceptually organized like a bow tie, with a broad fan of incoming material flowing into a central knot and then flowing into another broad fan of outgoing material. On the Internet, the incoming fan is made up of data from a huge range of sources — e-mail, YouTube videos, Skype phone calls, and the like. In E. coli, the incoming fan is made up of the many sorts of food it eats. As information and food move into their respective bow ties, they get homogenized: E. coli breaks down its food into a few building blocks, while the Internet breaks down its motley incoming data streams into streams of standardized packets.”

“Today computers sense Internet congestion by noticing how many packets they lose. That’s like trying to drive down a highway by just looking at what’s 20 feet ahead of you, constantly accelerating and then slamming on the brakes as soon as you see something.”

“Doyle and his coworkers enable computers to use more information about traffic flow, noting how long it takes for their packets to get to their destination. The less traffic, the shorter the time, and with these traffic reports on hand, their computers make much smarter decisions. The result is a string of victories for high-speed Internet communication competitions. In the last face-off in 2006, they managed to send 17 gigabits — about a full-length movie’s worth — each second across the Internet.”

Journalisti-lehden toimituksen päiväkirja vaikuttaa hyvältä. Lotta Tuohino esittelee Erotuksena-menetelmää hauskasti, ja Jussi Tuulensuu bongasi Helsingin Kaartin poliisitalosta fonttiyhdistelmän, joka “ylittää inhimillisen sietokyvyn rajat”.

Ilmaisjakelulehti Vartti panostaa nettiin. Samalla paperilehden julkaisu puolittuu, kun sunnuntainumero lakkautetaan. Viikonloput näyttävät aiheuttavan lehdille hankaluuksia muutenkin. Vartin paikallisuutisia, joista tulee “runsaasti” lukijoilta, tullaan näkemään jatkossa Ilta-Sanomissa, Metrossa ja Satasessa.

Seam carving for content aware image resizing, a video demo of an interesting method of repurposing images for different display sizes. Neat stuff, though I’m guessing many art photographers and photojournalists may find some of its altering aspects a little dubious. Via Virbana on Jaiku.

Jari Lindholm: Guardian ja LAT: web on tärkein uutiskanava.

Matti Lintulahti on samoilla linjoilla. Lintulahden mainitsema USA Todayn “Web 2.0 -päivitys” toi saitille juttujen äänestyksen, lukijoille profiilisivut, ja jälkimoderoinnin.

Tyypillisesti kaikki eivät olleet tyytyväisiä, ja monet lukijat purnasivat päätoimittajan blogissa. Surkuhupaisaa onkin katsoa USAToday.comin lukijamääriä päivityksen jälkeen.

Päivitetty: 13.3.2007 klo 17:52

V-lehti veti lehtensä jakelusta huumemyönteisen jutun takia. Juttu kuitenkin leviää netissä, ja itse jutussa ei ole mitään vikaa — lukuunottamatta sitä, että se käsittelee asiaa yksipuolisesti. Kerrassaan ennenkuulumatonta huumekeskustelussa! Lue juttu itse.

Päivitys: Päätoimittaja Kohtala hyllytettiin? Mieletöntä.

Markosamuli huomasi, että Veikkaus värittää hyvin saittinsa 10-vuotista taivalta kertomalla mitä muuta netissä on sinä vuonna tapahtunut. Loistava tapa antaa kontekstia kehitykselle.

Olemme käyttäneet Campfirea nyt kuukauden päivät, ja välillä meidän keskustelu muistuttaa pelottavasti 37signalsin porukan postauksia.