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Posts from July 2008

Productivity in Academia - An Interview with Dezene Huber

The Weekly Review has an interesting interview with a guy called Dezene Huber. I was particularly struck with the paragraph quoted below in regard to Dezene’s and his family’s approach to life.
Satisfaction means that we don’t try to make material possessions the source of our joy. Rather, the things that we already have and [...]


Tubes

One of my most popular pages is a link I posted last October to a iPhone formatted map for the London underground. When I took a look at the Google search page I found another useful looking link. Tubes is a webapp, again formatted for the iPhone, which poles for updates on the [...]


If You Were a Typeface…

If You Were a Typeface… is the question Jason Santa Maria has been asking on his blog.
I’ve been trying to think what I would be for most of the day, but I’m not having much luck yet. I’ll be sure to post when I do. In the mean time, pop over and have [...]


Interview With Shawn Blanc

At the beginning of the year I promised to myself that I would strive to bring content to Electric Weekend that contained a little more pith. I began to brainstorm a few things and although a lot of those things haven’t come to fruition, one has.
I’d like to present to you, the first interview [...]


Handwritten Typographers

Handwritten Typographers is an interesting look into the handwriting behind some famous typographers. I found it particularly interesting how little quirks and elements of the writing appeared more prominently in the typefaces.
Via Daring Fireball


Ars on Mozilla Weave

Ars Technica takes a look at the new Mozilla Weave feature for syncing Firefox.
I’ve been looking at and trying Weave out in a trial of FF3 this last week and it seems quite impressive. I’ll reserve judgement until I can compare it to using MobileMe and my preferred browser, Safari.