Posted November 17, 2009 by Charles
I’ve been working with some @font-face options, and found that most of them don’t look very good in the browser window. Font Squirrel has a full page of kits (including otf or ttf, woff, and eot files). I went through the serif and sans serif options and tested as many as would display. Here’s the list of the ones that looked good on a live page (on Win7, FF 3.5, Safari 4, and Chrome):
Sans Serif
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MicroFLF (regular and medium italic, in small sizes)
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Serif
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontfacedemo/Bebas
Posted November 16, 2009 by Charles
I’ve used this quote more than once here:
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Sometimes people manipulate statistics to deceive. Statistics are used to get you to give money to shady charities, invest in faulty opportunities, or convince you that what you’re fighting for is wrong. But sometimes, people take statistics and just miss the point completely.
In Cultural Literacy, E.D. Hirsch talks about the Coleman Report, released in 1966, which showed that socioeconomic status was the most prominent determiner of student success, despite the best efforts of schools. Most educational leaders seemed to take that to mean that no matter what schools did, poor kids were going to perform well below wealthy kids. It has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Posted November 11, 2009 by Charles
And how God loves every one of us.
If you’re lost I will find you with a vision knows your fear
And if you break I will bind you with my arms
If you hurt I will heal you
If you stray I will reel you in and drive away the demons did you harm
Come my way, I’ll carry you in from the cold
Come my way, I promise I’ll lead you back home
If you’re down I’ll convert you with a missionary zeal
And guard your heart with a mercenary cool
And if you’re drained I will fill you up with my love until you know
The glory of an other-worldly fool
Come my way, I’m crushing you diamonds from coal
Come my way, I’m turning your tin dreams to gold
And if you come, I will dream you to imaginary high
And if you hope, you’ll awake to find it real life
But if you run I will spurn you, if you turn love will burn you
And you’ll never know the story of these arms
“Come My Way”, by Sean Altman, performed by Rockapella (sans chorus and bridge)
Posted November 10, 2009 by Charles
Does that sound odd? Should it? Maybe, maybe not, but that’s how I feel. Rather, that’s how I hope I feel. I don’t know if I can pull it off.
The criticism I’ve been hearing of Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Malik Hasan today centers around this comment, from a classmate of his:
Well, Hasan gave a presentation on whether the war on terror was a war on Islam. I raised my hand immediately. I questioned why that type of topic was being presented at because it was so off-base, and it was allowed to continue. His radicalism grow throughout the year. He would make frequent comments that he was a Muslim first and an American or an officer second, and also that, you know, Islamic law, Sharia law took precedence over the Constitution. And we all became concerned because he’s a sworn officer of the United States and he’s supposed to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. Yet his loyalties lied elsewhere.
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