[WikiEN-l] CafePress Wikipedia items

Sat Jan 24 17:06:17 UTC 2004

> Sean-
> > I am pleased to report that I ordered two Wikipedia tile coasters from
> > CafePress on [[19 January]], and received them in perfect order on
> > [[23 January]].  A very smooth, satisfactory, and recommendable
> > transaction.
> 
> How is the quality of the coasters? Is the text recognizable, are there  
> any pixelization effects?

For those who haven't seen the coaster at the CafePress site, it is a
tile some 11.5cm (4.5 inches) square, showing a Wikipedia edit window
in the Cologne Blue style, editing the [[Editing Wikipedia]] article.
The edit summary is "Wikipedia rocks!"

I didn't notice when I ordered, but the Wikipedia logo is the old
quote-ball, not the new puzzle-ball.

The edit text box is barely 6cm (2.35 inches) tall and holds 31 lines
of text.  I haven't seen text that small since I refinanced my house.
It is readable at the moment, even with my several-decades-old
eyeballs, but I seriously doubt that it will remain so after a few
months of impacts from mug bottoms.  Even now, the text is blurred
(not pixellated) in places, an effect somewhat like the output of a
laser printer that is running out of toner.

On the other hand, the blue of the sidebar menu is vivid, the swollen
lines of text in the quote-ball logo are recognizable as text (tho it
cannot be read) and the tile itself is decent quality.  For less than 
$10 each, I am satisfied.

However, I must warn those of sensitive social consciousnesses that
these coasters were made in China.

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 Sean Barrett     | I'm not bad, I'm just drawn
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