what is normal?

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August 11, 2008

american normal readers

Filed under: what is normal — Tags: , — admin @ 1:39 pm

Wowee it’s a good day! As if a small serving of normal tracking isn’t already at capacity (after a completely empty July), then someone actually sends in the first submitted what is normal? sighting! More odd, the submission was sent via a cell phone, courtesy of ‘vzwpix.com’, which is Verizon Wireless’s online site for user’s to manage their phone’s content. Wowee! Was it sent live? Shot in the wild? What is it, anyhow!?

A quick google search revealed what my suspicion somewhat hoped for, that not only is the phrase ‘normal readers’ indexed by the notorious googlebot, but it references a book that Google has also digitized for online reading!

A three-volume set by May Louise Harvey, the user-submitted image above shows the ‘THIRD BOOK’. Google has digitized the FIRST BOOK. The three grabs below show the only instances of normal I can be bothered to find in this title - it’s content otherwise being too much of a bore to troll through.

Even with a glance I couldn’t figure out why it’s titled what it’s titled.

June 12, 2008

googlepages normal font

Filed under: normal geek — Tags: , — admin @ 6:22 am

Google Pages is part of the Google Labs initiative to build an online playground of web technologies that may or may not get integrated (it is a ‘lab’ after all) into the growing set of tools google has to offer beyond its comprehensive search engine (and mapping, and reader, and calendar, and advertising, and and and). Google Pages describes itself as ‘a free online tool that finally makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes.’

It really is easy for anyone to create webpages without any HTML knowledge, thanks to the integrated WYSIWIG editor with clickable buttons, quick drop-down menus, and limited set of options for modifying your pages. Two of those options contain references to normal: the heading menu, which uses classes like h2, h3, h4 and p for paragraph or as googlepages call it, Normal - not Default; and the font size menu which has the options small, normal, large and huge - common terminology of CSS font properties.

thanks google for recognizing the potential of normal:

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