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Edges and corners

2008-06-13

I know, the design that the ZDF is using for time and score display during football broadcasts isn’t new – if I remember correctly, they introduced it for the World Cup 2006 –, but I got to get that off my chest now:

I don’t mind rounding sharp corners to get a more pleasing look, but I think especially this shape with the overtime is rather dilettantish and unaesthetic:

ZDF display

In the top left corner, the right angle is rounded with a small radius, on the right hand side there’s a large curve with a slanted edge, and the overtime has simply one corner cut off. I really think they could have made that in a more consistent way; I somehow don’t understand who could have come up with this combination and actually get it on air… or what do you think?

Do you like this design?

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PS: Congratulations to Austria for tying the score, but you’re gonna lose on Monday! :mrgreen:

(Almost) no toot-toooot

2008-06-12

There seem to be only few Croatians around here, especially those willing to drive and honk around. So just for the sake of completeness:

hrhrhr de
hr hr dede
hr # de de
hrhr de
hr # de
hr de
hrhrhrhrhr dedededede

:heul:

If quantity and “quality” of their driving around and honking was to decide, the Euro 2008’s final would be Turkey – Germany…

Who will become European football champion?

2008-06-07

Who will become European football champion?

  • Germany! (60%, 9 Votes)
  • Has to! (40%, 6 Votes)
  • In any case! (0%, 0 Votes)

Votes total: 15

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Erm, yes, this poll is not to be taken seriously…

And what do astrologers and fortune tellers say? Florian Freistetter of Astrodicticum Simplex (German) took a look around – and of course most of them make only very vague statements and platitudes like

“Silly errors, inattentiveness, misunderstandings among players or wrong decisions by the referees can be pivotal for some match results.”

(Astrologie Heute, my translation), and the few fantasts daring concrete statements surely have excuses such as

“The penalty was a good scoring chance for the Swedes which, however, missed the goal. I astrologically rated this scoring chance as a goal.”

(astrologie.de for the World Cup 2006, my translation). And I’ll realistically rate this statement as rubbish…

» To the German article on Astrodicticum Simplex.

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