Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Flock, a Firefox variant for working with blogs and social bookmarking services is now available as a developer preview. We heard a lot of buzz about it when we met up with the folks from various blog search companies in September.

Now to see if it meets the hype.

I've configured it to work with my main two blogs on two different services.

It's relatively easy - as long as your blog host supports ATOM, and you know the URI of the ATOM API for your blog.

You can download a build here if you want to give it a spin.

Here's an excellent list of the "Top 20 License Free Fonts". You may not agree with the choices, but there are some really nice examples of type design here.

I rather like Day Roman, Gentium and Agendia...

...by the sight of the double umbrella in a catalogue that turned up in the post today...



How on earth does it fold up? And why do they look so embarrassed?

Catalogue opened and read by marypcb...

No, not David Byrne this time, so instead (for your graphical delectation) here are 22 Comic Panels That Always Work.

According to the icon I'm using, I must be a variant on panel #1! Yup, I'm just a "Big Head"...

(via Blog Of A Bookslut)

Cali looking out between the bannisters.

Putney. October 2005