Seb Lester’s Favorite Fonts
Seb picks his top ten typefaces inspired by calligraphy.
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The Right Number
The Right Number is a gentle, noncommercial space where your only job is to be yourself. Upon dialing you’ll be connected to a voicemail box and given a brief prompt. You have three minutes to answer however you’d like.
Callback Hell
At first when I was reading this JavaScript coding guide, I thought “Isn’t this exactly what promises address?” but that is then addressed further down:
Before looking at more advanced solutions, remember that callbacks are a fundamental part of JavaScript (since they are just functions) and you should learn how to read and write them before moving on to more advanced language features, since they all depend on an understanding of callbacks.
Fair enough. In any case, what you’ll find here is mainly good advice for writing modular code.
5 Calls: Make your voice heard
A service for US citizens that suggest five phone calls they can make at any time—based on their location—to influence their representatives.
Calling is the most effective way to influence your representative. 5 Calls gives you contacts and scripts so calling is quick and easy. We use your location to give you your local representatives so your calls are more impactful.
ConferenceCall.biz
This is just like a real conference call.
Trigger warning: this is just like a real conference call.
2001: A Space Odyssey
A really nice piece on Robert McCall, who was artist-in-residence at NASA and worked as conceptual artist on Kubrick and Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Calligraphy by Nancy Howell
Wonderful calligraphy — something we don't make much use of on the web.
callto: tel @ Make Data Make Sense
A greasemonkey script that allows you to call telephone numbers in web pages (marked up with hcard) using Skype.