This is the last straw. Fashionable designers seem to prefer fonts that make my eyes itchy. Does anyone know how to disable downloadable fonts in Firefox?

I've tried setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false, but they're still getting downloaded and used.

EDIT: A browser restart seemed to be necessary - flushing the cache and a full page refresh wasn't sufficient. It looks like that about:config option does work after all.

Anyone aware of what he talked about on his blog that got him in trouble with his work? (Which is what I think he's saying)

First sentence of the post:

Fresh from being chastised for expressing my personal opinion, on my personal blog and other strictly personal venues, about matters that may, or may not, ever intersect the realm of the impersonal a.k.a. corporate, I take a detour into the strictly, perhaps overly, personal, viz. how to talk to my own children about the dangers of drugs that I myself have taken — both medicinally and recreationally — and the many others that I have not, only to receive emails and IMs via impersonal a.k.a. corporate media from strangers-but-strictly-speaking-coworkers asking if everything is OK over there in personal-land.

"impersonal a.k.a. corporate" ??

"strictly, perhaps overly, personal, viz...." ??

"impersonal a.k.a. corporate" - a SECOND time ??

"strangers-but-strictly-speaking-coworkers" ??

This tone of speech encapsulates everything that I hate about self-important psuedo-intellectuals discussing literary "theory" in the English departments of universities.

It's verbose, long-winded, and intentionally difficult to read - all in an attempt to sound intelligent and deep, while actually covering up a paucity of any original thought.

After that one "sentence", I stopped reading.

Clear writing is relatively easy, and expresses a respect for one's audience.

Long winded bull shit (like the above) expresses contempt for one's audience.