Rhoneisms

As someone who designs websites almost primarily using type, I can’t reasonably disagree with this stance. Something, eventually, will have to be done.

This made the rounds a while ago but I am just now getting around to reading it. I find looks into the young lives of industry leaders like this fascinating.

So you know, here are The Rules ( via everyone and their Kottke. )

Free embeddable fonts for your website. You know, if you ever want to do that sort of thing.

“The point of a Not To Do list is to prioritize, not just from the top down, but from the bottom up as well. What you don’t do is important because what you leave out makes way for things that are more important.”

There is some wisdom in this one for sure.

Great roundup of good monospaced fonts to use in your favorite text editor. I am now officially smitten with Droid Sans Mono (12pt).

“On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky exploded over a remote region of central Siberia. A fireball as powerful as hundreds of Hiroshima atomic blasts scorched through the upper atmosphere, burning nearly 800 square miles of land. Scientists today think a small fragment of a comet or asteroid caused the "Tunguska event,” so named for the Tunguska river nearby. Now, a controversial new scientific study suggests that a chunk of a comet caused the 5-10 megaton fireball, bouncing off the atmosphere and back into orbit around the sun. The scientists have even identified a candidate Tunguska object—now more than 100 million miles away—that will pass close to Earth again in 2045. Is there a hidden, but powerful, danger inside the seemingly harmless comet?“