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"In descending order, the most popular fonts from the Typekit library, based on the number of people who have marked them as a favorite."

Favorite fonts at Typekit. I was going to post this with a snarky remark about how it’s sure to be a great list of crappy fonts to avoid, but it turns out they’re mostly excellent. I guess Typekit users have discerning taste!

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According to a press release from the VSP, Trooper Paul Dean was assisting a vehicle that slid onto the median, when Gregory Stefurak, 54, of Rochester, stopped in the travel portion of the road to alert him of an accident to the south
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As soon as Stefurak stopped his 2004 Volkswagen the operator behind him, Kyle Skinner, 32, of Putney, was able to stop his Mini Cooper to avoid hitting the Volkswagen, but a 2006 Subaru, operated by Loriann Madden, 49, of Longmeadow, Mass., was not able to stop and struck the Mini Cooper pushing it into Stefurak’s Volkswagen.

A tractor trailer operated by Thomas Miller, 58, of Franklin, was able to swerve but struck Madden’s Subaru from the rear and side.

There were no injuries and the Mini Cooper and Subaru had to be removed by a wrecker. Investigation is pending but Stefurak may be issued a ticket for stopping in the roadway.

Police respond to multiple crashes Monday - Brattleboro Reformer. Wait, let me get this straight: the Subaru and tractor trailer were both driving too fast for the conditions, but the Volkswagen is the one who will be ticketed. WTF?!?

"Google has just announced its earnings for Q4 2011, reporting $10.58 billion in revenue — although that number doesn’t include traffic acquisition costs. When you factor those in, actual net revenue was $8.13 billion."

“Google Q4 revenue breaks $10 billion”. That sure sounds like Groupon-style accounting there.

"As contentious as it is to quote Obama these days, he got one thing right: “To win the future, we have to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world, tapping the creativity and imagination of our people.” It’s beyond baffling for the government to even consider a policy that thwarts the very creativity and imagination at the heart of true innovation — a policy designed to lose the future."

Congress Should Use the Internet - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com. Brilliant: “a policy designed to lose the future” sums it up nicely.

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The administration had told the justices that their analysis of Ms. Perich’s case should be essentially the same whether she had been employed by a church, a labor union, a social club or any other group with free-association rights under the First Amendment.

That position received withering criticism when the case was argued in October, and it was soundly rejected in Wednesday’s decision. “That result is hard to square with the text of the First Amendment itself, which gives special solicitude to the rights of religious organizations,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote.

Justices Recognize ‘Ministerial Exception’ to Job Bias Laws - NYTimes.com. What version of the First Amendment is Justice Roberts reading? Mine says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”. It denies the very notion of special rights for religious organizations!

"At some time in Apple’s history it was decided to put the “bumps” on the D and K keys while some other computer companies use the F and J keys. With the release of the PowerBook G3 Series, Apple moved the bumps to the F and J keys."

Apple Keyboard Home Keys: Position of “Bumps”. Having learned typing on an Apple IIe, this one still gets me all the time. When I place my hands on the keyboard without looking, my right hand is almost always off by one key. And if I happen to be in vim in command mode, the results can be… disturbing.

"You can turn off the personalization, but in doing so you’ll also remove Google’s previous tailoring efforts, like using your search history to improve results."

Google’s ‘Search, plus Your World’ personalizes search results using Google. Finally an easy way to turn off search personalization!