The Designer Wails . . . .

WHERE is the Dingbat Cave??? I loved the dingbat cave. Dozens of dingbats, by dozens of designers, all freeware or shareware. A wonderful resource, one I repeatedly used in the classroom and in my personal work.

Now it's gone, gone, gone. It's turned into one of Ann-S-Thesia's sites, which has me less-than-wowed. Her designs are usually too fussy for me, and she also wants money for her fonts, which is OK -- her prices are reasonable, and she should be able to earn a living -- but I'm upset she basically erased the identity of a hip, collective site. Now we have her identity instead, and a lot of what she does is stuff I try to talk my students out of doing.

Besides, if I were to pay for type I'd give money to Nick Curtis.

I can't believe how fickle the Net is. I can't find any mention of where the Cave has disappeared to. I Google "dingbatcave -ann -anns -ann's" and I'm still inundated with the woman's overblown art.

She could have at least archived the old fonts for Dingbatcave fans. Damn it.

I want my cave, I want my cave, I want my cave. Can't the Net hold still for a few years so I can catch up?