A disagreeably facetious type glossary is a rather clever (and short) compendium of deep background information about fonts. Well, it’s clever if you sometimes laugh at font jokes.
Even if you don’t, it’s still a good reference for those times when you want to know the difference (in font terms) between the bowl and tail of a letter.
Maybe we need to start talking about googlization instead of globalization. Seems that everyone’s favorite search engine has just entered yet another part of your life - or at least they really want to - and this time, it’s your cell phone: Google SMS brings the best search engine on the web to your phone.
Given how many of us use Google to find addresses and phone numbers, I suspect the folks at 411 and 555-1212 are going to be nervous. Either that or they’ll file a lawsuit claiming that Google is somehow infringing on a trademark they have for the “delivery of query responses to a voice-enabled communications device.”
PHP’s a language used to write online applications - things like Drupal, the LINC Project website, and this blog are written using PHP. I don’t do much with PHP these days, but still do just enough that I often find myself heading over to the PHP website to check the documentation, so I was pretty excited to see this neat little utility for my Mac: PHP Function Index for Mac OS X - it’s a little program that enables you to access and search the php reference offline, and includes the ability to create bookmarks for frequently referenced PHP functions.
apologies if this was too geeky for you.
So maybe this shouldn’t excite me as much as it does, but from looking at the list of changes, there’s a lot here to be excited about.
If you’re not familiar Drupal, it’s a Free/Libre Open Source Software [definition] content management system with strong focus on creating online spaces that can support communication of offline or online communities.
Drupal is seeing increasing use by non-profit technology assistance providers - in fact at PTP we’re using it to support one of our training programs. Additionally, Drupal was used at the basis for DeanSpace - the campaign-website-in-a-box that was developed as part of the Howard Dean campaign.
Though the campaign is over, DeanSpace lives on under it’s new name CivicSpace. You can see the work that the form Dean coders are doing at CivicSpaceLabs.org.
This latest release candidate of Drupal seems to have a number of features that many of us felt were sorely lacking, so I’m looking forward to kicking the tires and testing it all out.