Nitpicking the Nitpicker

Kottke.org is an amazing website. Jason Kottke’s ability to provide a constant stream of interesting content is almost without peer. One such story caught my eye this morning:

After reading this, I naturally wanted to read the full letter Mr. Butterick fired off to the director of the film. The letter was well written and his point was easy to understand. Quite frankly, I haven’t seen the MI film, but I too was shocked to hear of the font selection, nevermind how it was actually implemented.

What made this paper trail so funny was Mr. Buttericks’ letterhead. It displays his email, phone and then a fax number. A Fax Number. A fax number? Not his website. A fax number. A quick trip to the domain name used in his email address soon made everything clear:

He’s a lawyer.