April 2009
55 posts
Processing.js →
Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw…
css-template-layout →
JavaScript implementation of CSS3 template layout module
Delicious font →
Fontin →
The Fontin is designed to be used at small sizes. The color is darkish, the spacing loose and the x-height tall.
Fontin Sans →
I’ve designed Fontin Sans to be a suitable sans companion of Fontin. With a nice classical appearance it will be a perfect match.
“The Phigalians have on their market-place a statue of the pancratiast...”
– Pausanias, Description of Greece, translated by W.H.S. Jones
open_gem →
Gem Command to easily open a ruby gem with the editor of your choice.
Libertine Open Fonts Project →
Gentium — a typeface for the nations →
Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications.
Junicode →
Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists.
DejaVu Fonts →
The DejaVu fonts are a font family based on the Vera Fonts. Its purpose is to provide a wider range of characters while maintaining the original look and feel.
Look at this fucking hipster →
“I think it would be very unwise, from my perspective, to start having...”
– Senate Majority Fuckhead Harry Reid. Ha ha. Whatever, though. Torture is the least of our nation’s imperial crimes, and it’s only a symptom of the true disease.
“NEW YORK (AP) — A Pakistani immigrant described by prosecutors as...”
– The Associated Press: 6 years in prison for airing Hezbollah TV in NYC (via Michael J. Smith)
“So government transparency sites end up having three possible effects. The vast...”
– Transparency is Bunk (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
“The way a typical US transparency project works is pretty simple. You find a...”
– Transparency is Bunk (Aaron Swartz’s Raw Thought)
“Every time I write about the impossibility of effectively protecting digital...”
– Bruce Schneier
“Consider the logic of it. On the one hand, schoolchildren are so extremely...”
– Who Is IOZ?: Some More Thoughts on Young Girls’ Vaginas
“It was common for members of the Court — and, especially, Justice Ruth...”
– Analysis: A fear may drive a decision | SCOTUSblog. And the principal had no reason to suspect the student of carrying drugs other than hearsay. And this would be fucking bullshit even if there was hearsay that the student had some crack cocaine or something, but no, she was accused of having some...
“If the school official’s thought process was “I’d rather have a kid...”
– David Souter. The case before the Supreme Court involves school officials who strip-searched a 13-year-old girl because another student tipped them off that she might have a few prescription-strength painkillers, and the question here is whether school officials can ignore the Fourth Amendment to...
Sprockets →
Sprockets is a Ruby library that preprocesses and concatenates JavaScript source files.
Stupid Comments Be Gone! →
hide the comments on YouTube and Flickr pages
The Day We All Killed Ourselves →
Now here’s something different: what if we all killed ourselves? We agree: after all we’ve been through as a species, mass suicide would be a ridiculous way to go. But oddly, suicide could also be the inevitable, most logical outcome of evolution…
Diagram of timelines in Primer →
Watchslooow motion (go to vimeo to watch it HD)
You are being lied to about pirates →
“Responding to a lawsuit filed by a civil liberties group, the Justice Department...”
– Obama Administration Quietly Expands Bush’s Legal Defense of Warrantless Wiretapping | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet (via Owen Paine)
“I think this is a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is...”
– Madeleine Albright, concerning US sanctions against Iraq that killed half a million Iraqi children
Genocide Prevention Month →
Yeah, the only “genocide” they’re interested in “preventing” is the one in Darfur. The US Genocide Prevention Task Force is co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen, oh ho ho!
The PETA Files: Help Battle Seal Slaughterers in... →
I guess PETA ran out of real baby seals to protect, so now they’re going to protect baby seals in a video game. Are they going to hunt down players killing baby seals and PVP them or what? I don’t know, I don’t play WoW.
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“If we can’t say the word freedom out loud, God help us. I understand the...”
– Some idiot, on the renaming of “Freedom Tower” to “One World Trade Center” for some kind of marketing reasons, quoted inPORT AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES FREEDOM TOWER TO BE NAMED ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER - New York Post. I think this article is implying that some Chinese company that...
Sexting Girls Facing Porn Charge Sue D.A. - CBS... →
I heard about this story a while ago and thought it was impressively stupid. Some teenage girls took “porn” cell-phone photos of themselves and gave them to some other teenagers, and some fuckhead prosecutor found out and decided to teach them a lesson by charging them as child pornographers. Anyway, I just read that the “porn” photos were of girls in their underwear. Yeah,...
“In Falmouth, Mass., police issued summons against a group of six teens, aged 12...”
– Sexting Girls Facing Porn Charge Sue D.A. - CBS News I can’t wait till prosecutors start charging 13-year-olds for having sex with other 13-year-olds. Ha ha, they probably already do.
“If we’ve grown up at the movies we know that good work is continuous not...”
– Pauline Kael, Trash, Art, and the Movies
“It’s a peculiar form of movie madness crossed with academicism, this...”
– Pauline Kael, Trash, Art, and the Movies
“Just as movie directors, as they age, hunger for what was meant by...”
– Pauline Kael, Trash, Art, and the Movies
“And those things have closer relationships to art than what the schoolteachers...”
– Pauline Kael, Trash, Art, and the Movies