Posts tagged “fonts”

• You can now play the classic 1982 Atari 2600 game Pitfall! in your browser.
• I’ve been using FontAwesome in web projects since late 2012 and they are still the best.
• Scaling Our Rate Limits to Prepare for a Billion Active Certificates – Let’s Encrypt protects a vast portion of the Web by providing TLS certificates to over 550 million websites. They currently issue over 340,000 certificates per hour.
• The parents of a 22-yo Wisconsin man who died after an asthma attack have filed a lawsuit against Walgreens and UnitedHealth Group after they said the price for his medication suddenly rose from $66 to $539.
• Just dropping this here for no particular reason: Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition
• Aides to [the man] charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees.
• “The impotence [of the left] is as staggering as the abdication is sickening. But the current message from elected Democrats is loud and clear: You’re on your own. And the message from the … administration is even clearer: You’re next.” – via Marisa Kabas
• Apparently federal employees are using Milton’s red stapler from Office Space as a symbol of resistance, which is awesome on so many levels.
• An outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City area has grown into one of the largest ever recorded in the United States, with dozens of active cases of the infectious disease reported, according to health officials. (Be alarmed.)
• Newly-appointed U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy signed a memorandum which directs the NHTSA to immediately initiate, “a rulemaking to rescind or replace all existing CAFE standards.” I just can’t get over the fact that this guy got his start on MTV’s Real World: Boston.

The font size of the instructions on a box of Near East couscous is insultingly, aggressively tiny.

When you see in an old book the letter “y” where we’d use “th” (“ye olde… etc“), that letter was not pronounced as a “y.” The substitution was just a printer convention to make typesetting easier. “Ye” was pronounced “the”…
– via David Frum

Mac Pro-tip: Pressing ⌘ and + will make the font larger in just about every program you use. (And ⌘ and – will decrease the font size.)

It’s a silly little tip that almost everyone knows. But if you don’t know it, it’s a godsend. (It’s a little depressing to admit that your eyes are getting older, but …)

• Starbucks To Begin Sinister ‘Phase Two’ Of Operation
• Is Schizophrenics Anonymous legitimate or some sort of sick joke?
• “You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font.”
• This week’s must-have hat is The Infidel.
• In prison Bernie Madoff doesn’t have to hide his lack of conscience.
• The Smithsonian has released a list of the ten most disturbing scientific discoveries. I only think that three of them are very disturbing. (The other seven are just kind of “meh”.)
• If you’re going to brew your own beer, you might as well have a nice label.
• The Button is probably the dumbest iPhone app ever.
• Greg Knauss knows what to do about the Gulf.
• Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam
• News flash for lottery winners: Money can’t buy happiness. (Note: I am already happy, so winning the lottery would not ruin my life. Also, I’m not a moron.)
• Are you as excited about the new iPhone as I am? (It’s not my fault that Steve keeps releasing them so close to my birthday!)

So I took a stab at creating a header image. I used that crazy haettenschweiler font. I wanted to use the American Idiot font, but I could only find cheesy imitations and not “the real thing” in my five-minute Google hunt for it. This is actually the first time there’s ever been a header image on davidgagne.net — amazing when you consider this site’s been chugging along for over five years now. I just got an email and a gift certificate from dreamhost to congratulate me on my four-year anniversary with them.