Governments work for us. From the local fire department to national defense, processes and interests of government are ultimately beholden to its constituents, in one way or another. As another election cycle rages on in the United States, the debate about the size of government is once again in the headlines of the nation’s discourse. But how does one know it’s too big if we don’t know all that it does?
The business news pages are blazing with the news that two of the U.S.’s legacy airlines are to merge to become the world’s largest. United Airlines, the name the new entity will retain, will aim to improve its competitiveness by offering the widest range of destinations to its domestic corporate clientele, while offering emerging markets [...]
We like maps. We like to think of them as one of the most basic 2D interfaces, and historically, one of the most important. Mankind has depended on maps of some form for millennia and as the current form of choice, Google Maps just announced beta features with radical potential to enable the world to finally see itself differently.
With all of the daily developments in the webfont discussion, the security of font files is a bit sidelined. For foundries, companies, and designers, the security of a font can have legal, competitive, and moral ramifications (which I won’t cover here). A web-specific font format, like WOFF, may appear to offer consolation to foundries but relying on browser implementation of any feature is historically dire. I say watch your own ass(ets). I propose a server-side lock and key: Simple PHP Font securitY (SPiFY).