December 2010
23 posts
“All three variations are clean, legible faces and excellent alternatives to...”
– FontShop’s “Best Fonts” of 2010, on Museo. I’m sorry, but if you’re calling Museo an “alternative to overused typefaces”, then you haven’t paid attention to the web over the last three years: you can’t swing a Cat-5 cable without hitting some...
“The Noilly you buy in the states now is unacceptable. Full stop.”
– Perfect Remixed. Important PSA.
“We’re going to keep letting banks borrow money for free. If you’re...”
– What The Fed Really Said : Planet Money : NPR
“I just finished reading your demoralizing letter regarding recent layoffs at...”
– Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » An Open Letter to Carol Bartz, CEO Yahoo Inc.. An excellent read. I’m saddened by Yahoo’s slow suffocation of two of my favorite internet properties, Flickr and Delicious. Hopefully they can survive after Yahoo’s inevitable...
“This is a very big deal; it marks the first time a federal court of appeals has...”
– Court Rules Email Protected by Fourth Amendment. It’s about time!
Typedia: Blog: Cure for the Common Webfont, Part... →
Nice compilation.
“Making Mac OS X Processes Dump Core Better”
– Process Photography on Mac OS X. Very handy little utility.
“An implicit assumption of this argument is that people choose to be poor, or...”
– Checking the numbers means more than checking just the numbers. Brilliant!
Full Body Scanners: What's Next? →
Bruce Schneier sums it up nicely, in case you still don’t understand why some people have problems with the TSA.
“Kashmir Hill at Forbes documents a recent study by UCSD researchers showing that...”
– History Sniffing In the Wild - Slashdot. What’s interesting isn’t that we’ve known about this vulnerability for years, nor that it’s being actively and widely exploited, but rather that browsers like Firefox have already fixed it (by disabling visited links) but turn off the...
“Let it stand, empty and inaccessible, as a monument to our fears.”
– Close the Washington Monument - Schneier on Security
“William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, Harvard’s long-time dean of admissions and financial...”
– Harvard admit wants lottery for others but doesn’t realize he was a past winner. Insightful commentary follows.
“Total cost for the Yemeni printer cartridge bomb plot: $4200. […]
Even if you...”
– Schneier on Security: Causing Terror on the Cheap
delicious blog » Changes to Save and Share →
Total suckage. On the bright side, this should provide enough motivation for me to finally switch to Pinboard.
“Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign...”
– Gates on Leaks, Wiki and Otherwise - NYTimes.com. Finally, a little perspective.