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What’s the fascination with taking either a recycled police car, or worse still a garden-variety Crown Vic or Caprice, and making it look as much as possible like an actual cop car?

I can think of three reasons why you might want to do this:

• You’re a Walter Mitty type who wishes (s)he were a cop.
• “This was the largest auto I could afford.”
• Deterring criminals when it’s parked in front of your home or business.

I can’t say any of these are particularly bad reasons, but driving an ersatz cop car also a couple of major downsides:

• When you get pulled over by an actual cop, (s)he’ll probably find it obnoxious and be more likely to give you a ticket.
• Any time you come up behind someone, they’ll immediately slow to 5 miles an hour under the speed limit, ensuring that it’ll take longer to get where you’re going. 

So what’s the deal, dear readers?

Stilton. Ah yes, Stilton. This Insult to Cows Everywhere is considered the very best in England, where deep-boiled eel guts in slippery-gray fester pudding sauce is Fine Dining. Remember: you can’t conquer a worldwide empire by serving good food at home, and this cheese alone launched a thousand ships for sure. In fact, I did a little research and learned that Stilton’s military roots go even deeper: It’s not really cheese at all, but was in fact one of the first biological weapons concocted by those dastardly Royals during the Revolutionary War. The smallest bit could poison any well from New Brunswick to Fort Calistoga. After pitifully snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at Yorktown, they launched a massive cover-up, made like it was food all along, and have been choking the stuff down with their collective pride ever since.

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The Neue Helvetica was purdy, but completely unreadable in large blocks. It also made me feel like a hypocrite when complaining about too-small point sizes on other people’s sites.

The new typeface is Calisto, which degrades pretty nicely into Georgia on machines that don’t have it installed.

Now I just have to figure out how to make everything line up in a nice grid again.

How about a “competitive upgrade,” where you send in your bricked iPhone in exchange for a discount on a new N95?