From the sublime to the ridiculous, though not necessarily in that order:
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- Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory - "For a long time, the web has lagged print and even other electronic media in typographic sophistication... Google has been working with a number of talented font designers to produce a varied collection of high quality open source fonts for the Google Font Directory. With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set of so-called “web-safe” fonts that come installed on most computers." Better web typography FTW! And you don't have to install the fonts on your own machine, and it works on IE6
- Acrylic on Flesh - "Alexa Meade is a Washington D.C. artist who paints real people to look like a two-dimensional canvas." Excellent gallery; the startled look on the face of the subway passenger encountering the old man who looks like a painting of an old man is priceless.
- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - Douglas Adams writing in 1999: "A couple of years or so ago I was a guest on Start The Week, and I was authoritatively informed by a very distinguished journalist that the whole Internet thing was just a silly fad like ham radio in the fifties, and that if I thought any different I was really a bit naïve."
- Florida State Senator Videotaped Surfing Porn Threatens Reporter - Somebody who clearly loves the Internet, Senator Mike Bennett was videoed from the press gallery looking at a picture of scantily-clad ladies on his laptop during a debate. Oh, and a video of a dog
- Fun with Secret Questions - Bruce Schneier offers some suggestions for bank customers to use as their secret security question/answer pair. Bank: "Need any weed? Grass? Kind bud? Shrooms?" Customer: "No thanks hippie, I'd just like to do some banking."
- Web App Masters: Designing for Interesting Moments - Good stuff about interaction design from Bill Scott (via Luke Wroblewski). "An example of details in interaction design: there are more than 16 different events and 96 interesting moments in a typical drag and drop interaction."
- Mapping Ancient Civilization, in a Matter of Days - Lidar (Light detection and ranging) allowed archaeologists to discover more in four days about the ancient Maya city of Caracol (now swathed in deep jungle) than they had in twenty years on the ground. "We know the size of the site, its boundaries, and this confirms our population estimates, and we see all this terracing and begin to know how the people fed themselves."
- Three Steps That Guarantee Every Word of Your Copy Gets Read - Advice from Dave Navarro on how to keep your readers reading.
- Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists - Twenty-five years ago, Steven Levy published Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, profiling figures like Bill Gates, Richard Stallman, and Steve Wozniak and documenting the digital transformation of society they were creating. Here he revisits those early protagonists, together with some of the new kids on the block such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
- Awkward Family Photos - What it says
(The one of the little girl clutching her doll and a copy of Mein Kampf is... well, disturbing really.)
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