So this morning I was jumping a flight to Florida, and as per usual I had to shutdown my phone during takeoff. This, of course, was probably the first time I’d turned off my Blackberry Curve since the previous time I’ve flown. When I powered it back up, I was in for an unexpected surprise.

In my applications, their now lived an icon for Microsoft’s Bing search engine. I was sure I hadn’t added this app, and was a bit worried as to how it got there. A quick search (using google, of course) lead me to multiple forums discussing the exact same issue.

In their unending effort to force their products on users, it looks like Microsoft and Verizon are pushing this app to many of their devices. In usual MS fashion, the engine also doesn’t show up in my applications list, and cannot be removed. So much for the freedom to choose

If anyone knows any ways to remove this nuissance, other than removing the service book entry, please drop me a comment.

As you can tell by these crazy, ridiculous,

awesome

fonts, my first time with

Typekit

went rather well.

Last week, a friend of mine introduced me to Typekit. I was pretty floored. This is a HUGE step in the right direction for web design. Now that all major browsers can take advantage of the ability to link to a font, developers will have the ability to solve complex design issues while maintaining accessibility standards (without using flash, like SIFR does). I’m sure we will see more global solutions like this one for solving the legal problems with linking users to fonts they haven’t purchased in the near future.

Typekit also works with IE6, which is an honest to goodness miracle.

This is amazing. If you don’t know the amazing drink that this commercial is referencing, get your head out of your ass.