I have been looking at some open source fonts for font embedding with @font-face lately. A good place to for good OFL licenced fonts is The League of Movable Type
To be able to test their excellent fonts and how they behave in different browsers I’ve built a little Specimen Browser using Tim Brown’s fantastic Web Font Specimen and some lines of JavaScript.
Just open up the Web Font Specimen Browser in the browser you want to test in and select a font from the drop-down. Without a selection it will default to Georgia and you can test all system fonts too by adding a ‘font’ parameter to the URL like http://marctobiaskunisch.com/WebFontSpecimenBrowser/?font=arial
This is work in progress and my plan is to add more fonts from other sources as well.
Here’s the link to the Web Font Specimen Browser again.
As you could tell by my last two postings and the friday link hysteria I read a lot of stuff in my feed reader. Some of it I share in google reader. Some of it I tweet about. Often I do both.
Enter Reader2Twitter which is a nice little app that lets you post your shared items from the feed reader to twitter using your reader ID und oAuth. There’s also an option to only post items on twitter that have notes to them in reader. This is what I’m using so I still have control over what gets tweeted and what not. You can even set a pattern for your tweets. (Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean this will triple the number of tweets I’m posting. It just makes things easier for me when I actually do want to tweet and share the same thing).
So if you want you can follow me on twitter
Well, another week has past and I’m not doing too well with this whole project52 thingy. Nor have I even really attempted to get the lost comments back (the automated database backup failed, I will go hunting for comments in the google cache like Michael suggested).
But, as I mentioned in my last post , I always have some link goodness for you from my shared reader items
So here we go, some friday link euphoria:
As I mentioned on twitter from now on I will make an effort of being more disciplined with sharing stuff from my feed reader.
I use google feed reader every day to keep up with what’s going on in the world of web design and development (and some other more whacky stuff). Some of it I bookmark on delicious but to get a more readable and complete stream of my shared stuff head on over to my shared items page . Of course there’s an rss feed, too
And as Rik suggested I might even make it a weekly feature here on the blog posting the latest links of the week. Here are the ten latest links for your enjoyment:
tobestobs’ shared items
[Update:] I’ve changed the list of recent items to pure HTML. I was using the javascript snippet google reader suggests. But that is neither a very semantic way of doing it nor does it show up in google reader itself (if you’re subscribed to my feed)
Call me a genius, I managed to delete all the comments from the blog (yes, all of them) when getting rid of spam comments. Another proof of how spam ruins everything. Or not thinking about what you’re doing.
I’m currently trying to get my hands on a proper backup of the database, but it doesn’t look good (you know how it is with backups). If worst comes to worst, all the comments since mindgarden moved to the new server might be gone forever. So if you left a comment on mindgarden and it isn’t there anymore, it’s not because I don’t like you and deleted it.
In the meantime, far more serious things are going on in the world. So please go ahead and donate some money for Haiti if you haven’t done so yet
