Four for Friday, October 5

Live from Los Angeles, here are this week’s links of interest.

  • Bad signage
    Bad signs are all around you… here are photos of some of the stupidest. (via BoingBoing)
  • Kim Jong Il: Internet expert?
    The North Korean dictator claims to be an “expert” on the Internet and provides his rationale as to why most of the country is denied web access.
  • Free skull font
    Skull-A-Day has a really interesting free skull font for download–it looks to be a bold Futura with skulls taking the places of the negative spaces in the letters. Don’t set your thesis in this, but it might be fun for a drop cap or two. (via MAKE: blog)
  • Michael Dory: Concrete crickets
    New York artist Michael Dory makes small electronic devices that sound like crickets and places them in public areas, often hidden in plain sight inside of coffee cups and other small containers.