Justin Sans
August 2, 2008 | 2 Comments
The other day I was designing a tshirt for the youth group’s upcoming retreat (yes, tshirts are back for those interested). I was searching the internet looking for a particular font and stumbled across Fontifier, a site that translates your handwriting into a TrueType font. I’ve seen these services before but this one only cost $9 and accepted PayPal, so I figured what the hell.
I downloaded their template and filled out all the various characters (I decided not to fill in the British pound symbol because when would I ever use it?). I then scanned the form in, uploaded it and took a look at the auto-generated preview of my font.
Justin Sans - A TrueType font like no other!
Now you might be thinking that is some horrible handwriting, why would you possibly want that as a font? In fact, my high school english teacher once told me that my handwriting was the worst she had ever seen. So why a font? Why not? At $9 it’s worth it to have my handwriting be digitally available for whatever reason. Maybe I’ll redo some of the graphics here to have a more personal touch. I’m sure I’ll find something to do with it.
Any ideas? Post them in the comments.
Cleaning Up the Bookmarks
May 4, 2008 | 0 Comments
This evening I got bored and decided to clean out a bunch of bookmarks that have been sitting in Safari for far too long. I figure it’s as good a time as any to share some with you, the faithful and never wavering reader.
A little known fact about me is that I’m a very large fan of the 1986 film Short Circuit and the 1988 followup Short Circuit 2. Maybe it’s the fact that I enjoy the idea of a lovable, friendly robot constantly looking for input, or maybe it’s the undeniable charm of Steve Guttenberg trying to make money any way possible. Either way, It’s not surprising that I had two links related to Johnny 5. The first, from May of 2007, was an article on MAKE via Engadget about a guy that created a nice, working Johnny 5 out of LEGO Mindstorms pieces. Pretty impressive actually. The second Johnny 5 link sitting in Safari waiting for this moment was an article in the April 3, 2008 issue of Variety. Evidently Dimension Films acquired the rights to remake the Short Circuit film! Usually remakes are pretty crappy, but as long as it doesn’t become a straight-to-DVD pile of horse garbage, or star Shia LaBeouf, it should be worth watching.
I don’t remember when or how I found this next link, but I know it’s been sitting for awhile. It’s the website for the Newseum, which is a cool museum in DC dedicated to news. They have a very cool feature on their site that allows you to view today’s front page’s from newspapers around the globe. It does so in a sweet interactive map. Clicking the location on the map brings up a nice, full sized image from the paper. Here is the front page of the wonderful Orlando Sentinel, political commentary not included.
Finally is the way too much fun Dicewars which is basically a simplified, flash-based version of Risk. It’s a ton of fun. Unfortunately you can’t play other people, but add enough computer opponents and the game is challenging enough.
So there you have a few juicy morsels of internet goodness for your browsing pleasure. Just know that I’m not responsible should you become addicted to Dicewars or Steve Guttenberg movies.
Red Sox Nation Takes Over New Yankee Stadium
April 11, 2008 | 0 Comments
This is pretty cool. Anything to curse/jinx/beat/insert_verb_here the Yankee’s is fine with me. Be it bugs or Red Sox t-shirts, I’m cool with it. Someone throw something in the Met’s new stadium while you’re at it.
Worker tries to jinx Yanks with buried Red Sox shirt via ESPN.
A viral video showing how to make videos viral.
April 5, 2008 | 0 Comments
TechCrunch is a website about websites, particularly cool startups trying to do creative things online. Back in November they published an article, written by the owner of a viral PR firm, on how to make effective viral videos. In the irony of ironies, someone made that post into a viral video — and a pretty good one at that. Check it out.
(Via TechCrunch.)
The Coolest Website You’ll See Today
March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment
This is by far the coolest website I’ve seen today, possibly ever. You navigate through the site using your iSight (or other webcam)! Move a hand to the right to move to the next page, move a hand up to return to the homepage. Very, very cool stuff.
(Via Shawn Blanc.)
UPDATE: Forgot to put the link in there. Enjoy.