Bookmarks for November 14, 2016
- Tufte CSS
Really nice CSS set for doing simple, single-page document layout.
Tag: typography
Bookmarks for February 5, 2014
- The League of Moveable Type
A selection of rather nice free & open-source fonts.
Bookmarks for February 3, 2012
- What will happen with the NHS bill, in 5 tweets.
By the time this posts, you'll probably already have seen this. If you live in the UK, and haven't see this already, go and look, because this is the future of your healthcare we're talking about.
- Avería – The Average Font
This is actually a really really beautiful font. Lovely work.
Bookmarks for September 23, 2011
- the average font – a set on Flickr
This guy has created the "average font" by layering the low-opacity version of ever version of each letter on top of one another. I am struck by two things, firstly that it looks like the sort of thing an old, knackered typewriter would produce, and secondly, that I rather like it, and would probably use it.
Links for Wednesday June 22nd 2011 through Monday June 27th 2011
- Hoban Cards – Letterpress Printed Calling Cards
Oooh, tempting! Very lovely letterpress business cards.
- Contact Us – Conversion University Help
I need to understand google analytics much better. Please kill me.
- F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline – NYTimes.com
Seriously, at some point, someone needs to start running training seminars for law enforcement agencies, explain what technology actually *is*. I have no doubt that they employ many people who know, but it's be useful if the people doing the physical work weren't half bright morons hopped on fake authority. Because while knocking a few sites off the intertubes isn't the end of the world, it still is neither right nor fair that innocent third parties like pinboard.in, or Instapaper should be knocked off the internet, and their paying customers deprived of their service (and therefore their money) by government incompetence just because they happen to be in the same room as a computer someone might have used once to do something wrong. This sort of thing makes me disproportionately angry, not for what it is, but for the principle it represents: that the government can screw people for no reason, any time it likes, and receive no comebacks, not even be required to make an apology. Power and stupidity and no accountability. How do we stop this, exactly?
- Adramelech Books
Here is where you can order C.J. Lines new short short collection, Cold Mirrors. You should do this, pretty much right now. I routinely describe his previous novel as one of the most gleefully horrible things I've ever read, and if you like horror, and haven't read it, you've missed a treat. This short story collection promises to be superb, so seriously, make with the clicky and the shopping.
- WordPress › Passwords Reset
The WordPress main repository got hack the other day, and several popular plugins were modified to carry malicious code. Long strong short: if you are running a WordPress blog, and have updated your plugins in the last few days, then you should probably check to see if there are new updates available. Most plugins are unaffected, but a few of those that are are very common. The new updates will fix the problem.
Bookmarks for December 23, 2010
- When’s the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts?
Some useful numbers on blog posting for optimum circulation. Short version: publish in the morning to get the regular readership, and tweet notifications in the late afternoon for maximum activity boost/retweet value. Publish a minimum of one post per day, ideally more, in order to build an audience.
- Comic Sans Criminal – There's help available for people like you!
I am going to send this to anyone I catch using Comic Sans inappropriately. Anyone continuing to misuse that sodding font after reading this is actively evil, and should probably be removed from the human race for the good of all.
Bookmarks for December 10, 2010
- Help: Twelve Tales of Healing
Your second stock-filler recommendation for the day! What are you waiting for? Go! Get shopping! Buy my friend's fine literary product and help make the world a better place!
- Invaders from Mars – Charlie's Diary
I know Stross is one of my regular linkees, and I'm sure a lot of you glide over him at this point, but I thought this was a particularly interesting read, and I commend it to anyone who is feeling frustrated by the apparently lack of ability for members of the public to influence anything in the wake of stuff like Wikileaks and the student fees protests. It won't tell you how to change things, but it provides an interesting perspective on the whys of the current situation, that lead to some interesting thoughts on how one might affect change in the medium-term future.
- The Fast Fiction Challenge – Volume 2 by Lee Barnett
Budgie's Fast Fiction Challenge, now in its second volume. I commend it to your attention as a perfect stocking filler.
- standpoint gallery
Reverting to Type: exhibition. Must go see.
- Havasu: a material exploration of conversational interfaces – Blog – BERG
Interested mostly into the insights into conversational interface, rather than the actual product here. For consideration: pair a more general use version of this with some voice recognition software, and it won't be long before all those SF voice-activated computers become a reality.
Bookmarks for November 20, 2009
- Concept : TITILLIUM
It's on open source font. Which is a little weird, but still: it's also a *gorgeous* font.
Bookmarks for November 11, 2009
- Chose Your Own Adventure
Some absolutely beutiful stuff here – visualisations of the books, and the paths through them, and a on-line playable book. I am simultaneously regressing to childhood, and getting my adult design/informatics brain stimulated. Brilliant.
- Typekit
Oooh. Proper, attractive fonts for your website. OK, it'll set you back 25-50 dollars a year, and I bet most people will still set their font sizes far too small, but at least I can use it to make prettier things now.
Bookmarks for October 6, 2009
- 30 Free Comic Fonts
There's a few absolute gems in here…
- BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself
A bunch of leading psychologists give their answers to the above question. It's interesting what's revealed – these are the people who best understand how our brains work, and the cognitive quirks that they throw up, and yet they're still at the mercy of these same quirks themselves.