Tights !== Pants
I love when someone invests his/her cash in a domain name, just to get a single message across to a very specific audience. Now, I don’t know if it’s bleak mid-winter-induced cabin fever, but around this time last year BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com came into being, answered post-haste by HillaryClintonIsYourNewBicycle.com (now an obsolete blog) and JohnMcCainIsYourNewBicycle.com.
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Thanks to Bianca, today I discovered tightsarenotpants.com:
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Simple and to the point. But of course, the creator(s) of this site deemed it necessary to include a manifesto:
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An authoritative typeface was chosen. And the text layout is well-thought out and effective.
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If it’s on the Internets, it must be true—Barack Obama is now everyone’s new bicycle; John McCain is still super awesome; and tights are not pants (dot com).
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