[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Daily Tip: Generate Your Own @font-face Kits for WordPress
- [Pressography - Sarah Gooding]
@font-face is a CSS rule that allows designers to use non-standard web fonts that are not installed on their user’s machines. Awhile ago we posted a tutorial for how to get Beautiful Typography for WordPress and BuddyPress Using the @Font-Face Rule. Step 1 is to get an @font-face kit that will have your font in the correct formats the web needs to display the font to all browsers…
If you’re using fonts that are legally eligible for web embedding, then you can use Font Squirrel’s free @font-face Kit Generator. Simply upload your font and it will produce a kit for you that you can download. From there you would follow the directions in our tutorial to apply the beautiful new fonts to your WordPress site.
- Free PSD Files: 30 Web Resources to Download Them
- [BloggingBlogging.com - Egidijus Baranauskas]
PSD files can be very useful and save you lots of time with your design projects.
- Blog Action Day Is Coming Up: Are You Joining?
- [Daily Blog Tips - Daniel Scocco]
…it's basically a day (October 15) where bloggers from around the world get together to talk about an important issues, with the goal of raising awareness about them and hopefully getting people to take action. The 2008 edition had over 20,000 participant blogs, achieving over 14 million RSS readers combined.
This year`s edition is going to be about water…
There are several ways to participate, including:…
- A Minimalist’s Guide to eBay: The Least You Need to Know to Get Started
- [zen habits]
…back in 2008, my wife and I hatched a crazy plan. We were burnt out and beaten from our recent addiction to consumerism and the compounding stress of our consumer debt…
So we sold it. We sold everything. If it didn’t get sold, it was donated or thrown out. Over the course of the next year, we purged all of our possessions, paid off $18,000 in debt, and jumped on a plane for Australia with our 1-year-old daughter.
- Feeling Stressed Out? Find a "Comfort Food" for Your Mind.
- [The Happiness Project - GretchenRubin]
We all suffer from negativity bias, that is, we react to the bad more strongly and persistently than to the comparable good. Research shows one consequence of negativity bias is that when people’s thoughts wander, they tend to begin to brood. Anxious or angry thoughts capture our attention more effectively than happier thoughts.
…look for ways to pull your mind away from your worries onto positive topics. One great way is to watch a movie – preferably something funny! — or watch a favorite TV show. Don’t muddy the experience by trying to multi-task; you’re not going to get the benefit of taking a break from your own thoughts if you’re watching Shrek while you pay bills or fold laundry.
- Ai’m huntin’ for mah Kommitteh It’s Itteh Bitteh You seen it?
- [I Can Has Cheezburger]
- Plan to build ‘steam-powered PC’
- [BBC News]
A campaign to build a truck-sized, prototype computer first envisaged in 1837 by mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is gathering steam.
[AWESOMESAUCE. But will they use Lovelace's algorithm(s)? ...ugh, she is not mentioned in the article. -L]
…Mr Graham-Cumming needs to raise the money to set up the non-profit Plan 28 organisation to oversee the work. (http://plan28.org/)
"I was a little worried whether enough people would care about a steam-powered computer, with 1k of memory that was 13,000 times slower than a [Sinclair] ZX81," he said…
Last year he launched a petition on the No 10 website calling on the government to make a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing for his treatment by the authorities for being gay.
- the pioneers of asian american hip hop
- [angry asian man]
Hey, if you haven't heard, Far East Movement has arrived. They just released their kickass new album Free Wired, they're getting love from the likes of Snoop Dogg, Bun-B and 50 Cent, and "Like a G6" is a certified platinum hit. To paraphrase Notorious B.I.G., you never thought Asian American hip hop would take it this far. But who are the Asian American hip hop pioneers who paved the way…
- Immigrants underrepresented in California’s crime rates
- [ImmigrationProf Blog]
During precisely the period that California experienced the biggest immigrant population increase in its history, the state also experienced a precipitous drop in crime rates, according to a new report by Barry Krisberg of UC Berkeley's School of Law…
- Death Threats, Theft & Twitter: 24 Hours On the Beat
- [ReadWriteWeb - Mike Melanson]
The Greater Manchester police force, one of the largest in the U.K., is about half way through an experiment in which the force is publishing everything they do for 24 hours on Twitter.
The force, facing "unprecedented budget cuts", intends "to allow the public to see what officers at one of the largest UK forces face on a daily basis" with the tweets but apparently the force faces so much that it goes well beyond what Twitter allows.
The experiment started at 5 AM GMT and it looks like they quickly began running into rate limit problems. Twitter tries to stop users from overloading the service by limiting the rate at which they tweet. The @gmpolice account has attempted to avoid this issue by using three accounts, @gmp24_1, @gmp24_2 and @gmp24_3…
- WordPress General Troubleshooting
- [Weblog Tools Collection - James Huff]
Like any web platform, application, or operating system, WordPress can be hit by sudden unexpected problems. Fortunately, general troubleshooting is easy and will usually reveal the source of (and sometimes fix) most problems….
- Use Google Safe Browsing For A Quick Malware Check
- [Daily Blog Tips - Daniel Scocco]
If you want to perform a quick malware check on yours or any other website, you can use the Google Safe Browsing tool. You just need to visit the URL below and change the domain name in the end:
http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=dailyblogtips.com
The little tool will tell you if Google has detected malware on the website, how many pages were tested over the past 90 days, and how many networks (servers) are hosting the site.
- Debtors’ Prisons a Reality for Defendants Unable to Pay Fees and Fines
- [ABA Journal Top Stories]
Debtors’ prisons are making a comeback as states jail defendants who can’t afford to pay court-imposed fines and fees, including “pay-to-stay” jail fees and public defender charges, according to reports by two public interest organizations. Judges view the collection of debt as a critical income stream, but jailing indigent defendants ends up costing states and counties much more than they can ever hope to recover…
- After O’Reilly’s Rants About How ‘Muslims Killed Us On 9/11!’ Goldberg And Behar Walk Off Stage
- [Think Progress - Zaid Jilani]
This morning, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly appeared on The View and chatted with the hosts about a variety of the day’s issues. At one point, the discussion turned to the topic of Park 51, the Islamic community center that is being planned to be built two blocks from ground zero in New York City.
O’Reilly proclaimed his strong opposition to building the community center, and the hosts began to press him on his position… O’Reilly responded by saying it was “inappropriate.” Goldberg then asked… why he thought it was inappropriate, and he responded, “Muslims killed us on 9/11!” Goldberg responded by saying, “Oh my God!” and then used expletives censored by the station. O’Reilly continued to repeat his phrase, and co-host Joy Behar proclaimed, “I don’t want to sit here,” and got up and left. She was soon joined by Goldberg, who walked off the stage as the crowd cheered:…
[transcript and video]
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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