links for 2008-07-14

• Jamaica Gleaner News - PM’s $10m trips - Simpson Miller racks up big travel bill in seven months - Sunday | January 28, 2007
  how much portia spent. I remember her being dragged over the coals for this
  (tags: politics Jamaican_politics portia_simpson_miller)
• Jamaica Gleaner News - Phillips ready to rock PNP boat - Sunday | July 13, 2008
  Bruce is outspending her but I guess ‘inflation’ is the reason. its been the reason for every other broken promise so far
  (tags: bruce_golding politcs jamaican_politics hypocrisy)

links for 2008-07-12

• Letter-spacing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  hoping I can glean something here I didnt know already
  (tags: typography fonts howto best_practises)

links for 2008-07-11

• Typography 101: A Crash Course
  name says it all. I’ve been taking font selection a lot more seriously these days. I guess this has come as part of my ‘journey into helvetica’ lol
  (tags: fonts typography basics)

links for 2008-07-09

• WD Support > Downloads > My Passport > WD Passport
  WD hd diagnostic tool
  (tags: wd harddrive)

links for 2008-07-08

• Crystal Dew World - Download Center
  disk info at ur fingertips in an instant. Shoulda had this the other day before my damn external decided to die on me when I had NO OTHER BACKUPS! fuck *sigh*
  (tags: opensource freeware disk_utility)

Boston Globe Big Picture

Boston Globes Big Picture - News Stories in Pictures

The site is courtesy of the Boston Globe website and run by Alan Taylor. Since the images are backed up with little notes detailing the lives and circumstances of the people and events depicted, you get to feel good about yourself that you’re really concerned about topics of global significance instead of just liking pretty pictures (and wasting productive time your boss is paying u for!).

Click on the pictures that interest you to be taken to more related photos and an extended story.

via the TT Computer Society blog.

Who, the queen? Fyah bun dat raasclawt

Nandor Tanczos, a rastafari member of parliament in New Zealand

Click for link to video

links for 2008-07-03

• Basics - When Comic Sans Isn’t Enough, Sites Help Create Custom Fonts - NYTimes.com
  article on the nature of the font industry (can I call it that really?). Various avenues to have specialised fonts created (websites, font designers etc) and why ppl would want something more than helvetica (everybody jus a pick pon mi font eeh?)
  (tags: fonts typography design design_industry)

Gnarls Barkley - Going On [video]

How come nobody’s made a big deal of this already?
A now Dancing Dynamite a go sell off.

I feel like the editor could have done a better job of syncing the moves with the songs tempo but its not big enough of a deal for the presumed market to care.

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links for 2008-07-02

• Oxford Internet Institute - Teaching - MSc
  excellent dude! Msc in Social Sciences of the Internet? Jah know… the ones couldn’t forward wid a more normaler name? Jus showoff suh
  (tags: ict internet policy law postgrad)
• Copyright forum today for Int’l Reggae Day - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
  the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Jamaica Arts Holdings (JAH) and the Jamaica Trade & Invest (JTI), present the IRD Copyright Forum at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel tomorrow.
  (tags: intellectual_property jamaica music reggae music_industry copyright awareness)
• Abbey Road Studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  the infamous abbey road studio. Guessing this is where Coxsonne Dodds’ studio got its name from since the presumed original has a Studio 1 (and 2 as well)
  (tags: music_history british pop beatles pink_floyd)
• Astrology horoscopes. Chinese astrology. Free Horoscopes and Astrology. Tarot reading. First names
  sue me. I’m a carpricorn dammit… I luve this shit!
  (tags: astrology)