Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Today’s Links (05/04/06)
- Download Plantin Font Family - Linotype.com
Paul used this for the book. - First Annual Naked Day: April 05
April 5th is the day on which some sites, including this one will be going naked: removing their CSS styling to demonstrate some of the benefits of using standards-based and/or semantic markup. - Daring Fireball: ‘Repair Permissions’ Is Not a Recommended Step When Applying System Updates
Worth noting - I did this for a long while, because it was recommended all over the shop, but it’s just one of those Mac superstitions. - SmallImage
"SmallImage is a simple and efficient tool to batch process JPEG files, resize them, recompress them, remove embedded profiles and make them ready for the web or store them efficiently." - Speech Accent Archive
Samples comparing speech in different accents. - Your iPod and Your Privacy
Either this is a joke I don’t get, or something very, very odd is happening to iPods: faults caused by Numbers Stations. - SMOKING YOUR OWN.
A post by languagehat on the M.M. Bakhtin story Paul Auster has used a couple of times (Bakhtin used a manuscript for rolling papers). - The strange case of the man who took 40,000 ecstasy pills in nine years
That is a quite staggering number of pills. Unsurprisingly, your man really fried his head.
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Now there’s an interesting fact. From my research, Plantin was a font that was much loved and used by publishers of first edition (scottish) enlightenment texts. According to Linotype, Plantin (the font that I used) was designed in 1913 - way after the aforementioned texts would have been first printed. So given that the famous 16th century printer Christophe Plantin produced hundreds of fonts, I wonder if there was one generic Plantin-esque font that printers/publishing houses favoured in the early to mid 19th century…
Very interesting…
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