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A great primer for combining typefaces from Douglas Bonneville at Smashing Magazine. Very useful in this brave new world of @font-face. (via Scott Pargett)

When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s worth of extra features and deleted scenes and hidden hacks to tumble down and never emerge from, then we’re all just adding to an ever-swelling, soon-to-erupt volcano of trivia, re-contextualized and forever rebooted. We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever.

And his message is packed to the rim with nerd-culture references that would make Seth MacFarlane blush.

Simurai has created a toggle button that uses CSS3 and zero javascript. Next level shit.

“Don’t use some home-brew CAPTCHA syste that requires compound eyes to read.”

I was unaware of the CSS triangles technique! Bad ass!

A pretty, passive aggressive website on preparing Photoshop documents for developers.

I’m not a fan of Google’s decision. I’d rather browser vendors supported open source and established open standards.

We are putting more and more carbon dioxide into the air while decimating more and more of the forests that consume it. Isaac Asimov had been studying this greenhouse effect for 20 years prior to this speech.

Bill O’Reilly played his tides go in, tides go out card again the other day on his show. Neil Degrasse Tyson made a surprise appearance on the Colbert Report to clear up the confusion for America. The segment starts at 11:00.

This issue has been coming up for projects lately. I thought it was time for a reminder.