Aaron Baer

The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers.

Getting started using the Google Font API is easy. Just add a couple lines of HTML:

1 <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Tangerine', serif; }

The Google Font API hides a lot of complexity behind the scenes. Google’s serving infrastructure takes care of converting the font into a format compatible with any modern browser (including Internet Explorer 6 and up), sends just the styles and weights you select, and the font files and CSS are tuned and optimized for web serving. For example, cache headers are set to maximize the likelihood that the fonts will be served from the browser’s cache with no need for a network roundtrip, even when the same font is linked from different websites.

Fonts are open sourced and downloadable as well for print and local use. Make the web pretty folks!

Source: BP video from May 11 showing oil and gas streaming from the Deepwater Horizon well.

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May 14, 2010

The amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico may be at least 10 times the size of official estimates, according to an exclusive analysis conducted for NPR.

At NPR's request, experts examined video that BP released Wednesday. Their findings suggest the BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil.

Every new bit of information that I learn about this makes me want to just shut down and weep. I can't even fathom the amount of destruction that is going on right now. I'm positive now that we may have never seen such destruction to our Earth's eco system as we're going to witness in the aftermath of this spill. 20,000 to 100,000 barrels of oil every 4 days. I am physically in shock I think because I can only think about the situation for about 3 to 5 minutes at a time then I force myself to ignore it for the next 24 hours. The entire Gulf of Mexico is going to be a wasteland. If they're lucky enough to contain it to the Gulf.