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.

Posted at 11am on 05/04/06 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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