lot of people can get through life without having to stray far from 12 point Times New Roman. Maybe 13 if they're cheating on a paper. But typography is fascinating—and this app's great for pros and novices.

Poor Comic Sans! The favorite font of administrative assistants and H.R. representatives everywhere is deeply hated by so-called "design nerds." But guess what, design nerds? Poor unpopular Comic Sans might actually have a beneficial use. Because it's so horrifically ugly.

They've put the boning back in the movie. Also today: Some exciting casting news for fans of Canadians and Brits, AMC adds another show to their roster, and some important news about indie movie kids who are cooler than you.

In the gulf of disbelief following thirty-year-old suburbanite Faisal Shahzad's attempt to blow up Times Square, a series of superficial personal artifacts emerge: Handwriting analysis, photos of refrigerated leftovers, his resume. Can we divine a real person from this stuff?

Yes, he did, because the fancy typeface he used for Our Choice had ones that looked too much like I's.

In your intermittently gloomy Monday media column: a new font at the New York Times, a fantastical price for the Boston Globe, black people would like to be invited on television sometimes, and the recession proves Steve Forbes right:

Here's a list of 63 different whimsical faux-stencil fonts you can use to make fliers for your indie band that look grittier than just normal fliers which would not indicate your indie tendencies quite as well. [Outlaw Design Blog via Kottke]

Guess what we found on the street? That's right, a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows! The most important book ever—for kids! There are some conspiracy theories out there that claim the Times' Michiko Kakutani bought a "wrong" or "fake" copy of the book, but having read through to the epilogue that ties everything up, it pretty much all jibes with her review. And what of that epilogue? Well, okay. But because there are some of you out there who are for some inexplicable reason fans of the childrens' book series, we will put it under the jump. DO NOT CLICK THROUGH IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS.