Apparently it's not just the Poorhouse who upon receiving an email that that features some handwriting-esque cursive font has a physical inability to be arsed to read it, let alone act on it. Of course this produces issues here and there with his corporate masters, but then again, so does the policy of auto-binning anything marked with the red exclamation mark of urgency.

Anyhow, this month's Scientific American reports results of an interesting study on the psychology of typeface. Now, that description makes it sound really fascinating, doesn't it?