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No offense intended to the Tongva people, but I wish scientists could have come up with a slightly more pronounceable name for the new planetoid on the block. “Quaoar” is such an open-mouthed wa-wa kind of name.
Oh well, I suppose it’s better than “Uranus.”
It seems that most free font and clipart sites have taken their marketing cue from the pornographic web, and turned the search for free fonts into a tiresome, aggravating wade through a soup of popup windows, misleading banners, and lists of dead links.
But thanks to the blog concept, FontLover is here to point us to more reputable providers of type, free and paid. Through their Font Scoop (and corresponding archive), we find sites like Utopia Fonts, Chank, Aenigma, and of course, Font-a-Licious.
Any other freebie type repositories to suggest? (Update: Sauron Software (in Italian) and Clipserver have large archives of “classical” print fonts, useful for almost any publication or project.
Brief overview of Quicktime compression codecs. I normally use Cinepak to compress videos destined for multimedia CD-ROM, but I didn’t know Sorenson was good for that too.
I just whipped up a giant bowl of Capellini con funghi portabella i spinaci, drenched in olive oil, with microwave meatballs on the side. My own improv recipe. I love living in Little Italy near Whole Foods. Yum yum.
Update, 2008: Six years later, GSM is the protocol of choice, CDMA is on its way out, with current CDMA providers planning to switch to LTE. You may now disregard this post and the story it links to.
Den Beste on CDMA and GSM in the cellphone industry. Very detailed, very informative. I must admit that I too have been guilty of purveying the meme that “GSM is superior and US cellphones are so behind,” but I hadn’t even been aware that CDMA was a relatively new technology with so much promise.
Back in Manila, My mom had a Mobiline CDMA phone, but it was severely limited, as compared to my Globe GSM phone’s text-messaging capabilities. But then, I suppose other factors were (1) Nokia’s domination of the cellphone market, and (2) the cellular provider’s own service aptitude. Mobiline (which later became Piltel/Smart Telecom) was a PLDT subsidiary. Figures.
iBlog. You most certainly do. (Note to blogpopuli visitors: The blogroots-intended content was the link to iBlog. All that follows is my own personal rambling.)
I’m about 90% certain that before this year is out, I will have traded in my Dell laptop for an iBook. The school uses Mac, OSX looks like a dream come true, these Windows security problems are getting on my nerves, and like, dude, Steven totally convinced me.
My only reservations so far are (1) the lack of a MacOS driver for the Pencam, and (2) Zeldman’s OS X Blues. I’m hoping that both issues are resolved by the time I make the commitment.
My fortune cookie says “Keep on charging the enemy so long as there is life.” Clearly this fortune was intended for a purveyor of credit fraud.
On the other side, it says, Wo xiang-yao yi-bei cha.
Check it out: The Homeless Guy’s blog is in the news. Surely, someone out there must have the resources to hire him to blog?
Remember the church which I thought was the best candidate for “home” here in Baltimore? Well, I just found out last Sunday that the interim pastor is an open Freemason. And not just any Mason, but Grand Marshal of the Maryland Lodge. (So says he.)
I most definitely do not want to be worshiping in the context of compromise with an ambiguously Deistic secret society whose ancient rituals contradict the essentials of Christian doctrine, so I think we can forget that church.
Resources and links from the Order of Former Freemasons. (OFF)
Wi-Fi communicator badges. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future. And me still without a wireless network card.