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Wrapup, “My Cat Hates Me” Edition

Noël Jackson @ 5:50 pm on 24 Sep 2008 Permalink | Comment

Brilliant Sarah Palin article in the New Yorker. via Dean

The story behind the Palin email breach.

screen on Mac OS X via MacPorts reads from .profile_bash – ln -s .yourrc .profile_bash – it also needs /var/run/utmp touched and chmod 0644 / chown root:daemon.

Who uses what font?



Tips for frugal living.

Inside the Daft Punk concert pyramid.

Brutal Honesty

Digg goes down, down, down… lack of foresight?

A really nice article: “Reasons why I de-converted and now consider myself an atheist”

The relevance of old-school advertising copy to web writers, developers, and designers is not always fully appreciated. But even on the web, we need great headlines and taglines and all those other clever scraps of text.

Sensible Units helps you convert units without a sweat.


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I heart FontShop

Noël Jackson @ 8:17 pm on 30 Apr 2008 Permalink | Comment

I love getting font foundry emails.

FontFont recently sent me one with these two gems (oldies but goodies):

Ayres Royal



New Standard




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Stephen, and noel are discussing. Toggle Comments

 

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  Stephen 7:01 pm on 2 May 2008 Permalink

  Glad you like our newsletter! Small correction: we’re FontShop, FonFont is our house foundry, but this newsletter is dedicated to other font labels we carry.

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  noel 11:14 pm on 3 May 2008 Permalink

  Stephen, thanks for pointing that out. Glad to know FontShop knows whose talking about them and cares enough about their products to comment.

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  Stephen 1:05 am on 4 May 2008 Permalink

  Would be even better if I spelled “FontFont” correctly. ;)