SPranQ - True Type Ecofont

Spranq, the Dutch design consultancy company can lay claim to the world's first 'Eco-friendly' font - free for consumers to download and use with the aim of reducing ink usage.

The company, (Spranq), have cut traditional Dutch shapes, like windmills and clogs in the fonts to make sure people:
A) Save ink from the additional whitespace
B) Remember that this font first came from Holland.

How could we forget?

Try. Spranq - True Type Ecofont - The World's First Green Font

Wtf?

U Crazy...

Lulz?

Just to show I'm not neglecting you.

This friendly lulz cat fallen in the bath.

Camel - HACKED!

Before

After

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42742849@N00/3026077528/

Angelina Jolie - Locations of Children

Done an update following the conception of twins 1st of July 2008.

The new additions are called Knox and Vivienne (below).

Knox Leon & Vivienne Marcheline Jolie Pitt

Seems Mrs Jolie Pitt was carrying her GPS device at the time of conception as these fixes appear more accurate.

You can check these baby's locations and the previous ones below.

View Larger Map

US under Martial Law - US Bailout

Not managed to get this on mainstream media. The US Govt. has instituted Martial Law to pass a bill unread through Congress in less than the required 24 hour minimum reading period?!?

US recalling troops

Reading on the US websites and watching Utube today, I was shocked with the depth of divide between Wall St. and Main St. .
One Senator was talking about the level of telephone calls he received (in this video) something like 4 to 1,000 against. Which raises questions about US democracy and whether it will survive this vote.

Wicked Plan

This is all a wicked plan to keep the top people in their jobs. When people make huge mistakes what happens?

The people responsible for false trading need to face criminal charges and should be  cut out like a disease.

10 Year cycle

Anyone who's studied economics will know we are part of something called 'The 10 Year Cycle'. By this, economists have essentially predicted that every 10 years the economy moves beyond growth into retraction or vice versa depending which phase of the cycle it's in.

This current scheme is attaching a massive paycheck to what is essentially part of normal economic process, (much as the green arguement is putting together on climate change).

Are you for real?

When the leaves fall off the trees in autumn, we don't try and sew them back on. When a woman has a baby, we don't try to push it back in.

Do you know why, because we're not stupid.

You own us more money , already

Just one thought about the Henry Paulson 'TARP' plan.

That the plan has yet to be fleshed out, it assumes mortgages will fail...

Can't those consumers who believe themselves to be 'sub-prime', those fallen 3 months behind with payments, already threatened with foreclosure... just take this as a carte blanche not to pay?

Can't those who are able to pay just choose to default?

Given the choice I know I would rather default and pay tax, which raises questions about the whole scheme.. threat.. and general confusions ruling.

We need to move toward transparency. The rating agencies are to blame for this whole debacle.

We are all equal - Some of us are more equal than others

A toxic dumping ground for bad debt. Banks offload their debts for taxpayers to pick up the tab.

As the FED has borrowed close to 1 Trillion (900 Billion) to directly the markets.
They're setting up a root and branch analysis addressing the root problem, Bad Debt.

In this new plan being mulled over by the FED, banks are encouraged to disclose and dump their bad debt.

A provision is set up in Government. This toxic funding area is paid for by the taxpayer.

Post Idealist Socialism

This is the new socialism, bridging the barriers between rich and poor.

It'll be better for us all in the long run...
and luckily Bush is moving house in November so the toxic shock of the massive favours he's pulling for his friends in the 'elite' won't be felt 'till then.

Communism by the back door

It's time to draw the line. Business and state should not be mixed. Taxpayers should not foot the bill for businesses where they have no interest.

Full stop.

Miracle on Wall Street

The financial markets witness the largest series of events this century and the Wall Street Stock exchange rallies.

This is truly a miracle...

FTSE 100 Index -178.60 -3.43%

 AEX Amsterdam Index -13.84 -3.59%

 DAX Index -98.99 -1.63%

 CAC 40 Index -81.57 -1.96%

 Nikkei -605.04 -4.95%

 Hang Seng -1,052.29 -5.44%

 Shanghai Composite -93.04 -4.47%

Dow Jones Industrial Average +141.51 +1.30%

Flickr Favourites

Here's a selection of the best photo's I've found on Flickr.

Blue Silk - Ascent

Scared ?

Marauding Pumpkins

Chapel of Wat Rong Khun

Minazo the performing seal

Sunset Maui, Hawaii

You can find more favourites in my favourites folder http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonelyplanetexchange/favorites/

It's official - Google owns everything

Seems that one of the richest companies in Silicon Valley is having trouble finding lawyers to correctly T & C it's latest browser release, Chrome.

Deep in the User Agreement, which all you downloaders have signed up to ,is something which we suspect Google has been doing all along. This just proves us right.

So here it is in black and white and from the Google-Horse's mouth.

 

By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Thanks to the US firm of lawyers acting on Google's behave for the head's up on that one.

Google currently refuses to display a valid privacy policy from it's front page in breach of US federal law.

Marriott Blog worth $5 million

In additional clicks the company, one of my favourite world-wide hoteliers, tells us.

A conversational blog by it's founder and CEO Bill Marriott ranks amongst a list of 15 blogs (by sitepoint) where the corporate's have got it right.

Here's a picture from my favourite Marriott, Marriott Jordan Valley. Cheap, and great breakfast, I'd recommend it to those visiting the ruins who can't get bookings at the Movenpick (founded by relatives of the Swiss Explorer who discovered the ruins and in the ideal situation).

Jordan Valley @ dawn

Can't touch this..

Hammer time? An amusing anecdote about things you can do with house-hold tools.

AUGUST 6--While on patrol Monday evening, an Indiana cop noticed a naked guy standing in the window of a Fort Wayne home. So she approached the man's front door, which was wide open, to investigate further. It was then that Officer S. Hughes and a colleague were treated to the sight of a prone Ronald Miller, 56, engaging in a remarkably lewd act on his living room sofa. For the dirty details, you'll have to read the below Fort Wayne Police Department report, which notes that Miller is apparently handy with a claw hammer and some motor oil. Miller, pictured in the mug shot at right, was arrested on a felony indecency charge. A neighbor told cops that Miller was "not right" and parades around naked "24/24."

Smoking-gun

Just to show

I support the community.

lulz cats

Oh the joy of the lulz cat.