January 2011
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New font tiem
It’s a crossbreed between Verdana and Baskervillle: Verdeville sans
It’s public domain, by the way, if you can think of a use for it.
Update:
I also corrected the last two glyphs (254 and 255), which I’d got mixed up, so now it has lower case thorn and dotted lower case y in the right places, for the benefit of Icelanders and whoever it is that uses the dotted y.
December 2010
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Pongo, a new font →
Yes, I made another little bitmap font. It’s all based around the shape of the o. Like the last one it’s geared toward programming, with slashed zeros and big curly brackets and so on. Might be better for something else, though. I think a programming font needs to be more sober.
July 2010
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Why is the image not showing up in my dashboard view? Is it because I had to make this a “text post” to get a big image? Why do I have to use external hosting if I don’t want my images resized to 500px? Why is it that if you use a URL as the source for a photo post, tumblr makes its own copy and resizes it? It’s like an aunt who sometimes gives you free stuff but also...
June 2010
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February 2010
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Civilization 1 in 3D
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August 2009
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July 2009
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Seeing the werm in shergs of merm
I’ve been reading some world war 1 adventure stories. Inevitably I encountered references to pacifism, which reminded me that a certain phrase really gets on my tits, and I think I’ve worked out why. Pacifists often accuse the hawkishly inclined of “seeing the world in black and white, where really there are shades of grey”. I am all in favour of nuanced arguments, but I...
June 2009
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April 2009
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Sometimes I notice a cant phrase
I mean, a pattern of words we inadvertently use a lot, and I like to search for it (in quotes, so I get the exact phrase) and see what it’s being used for.
So I was looking for Popper’s “future knowledge by its very nature cannot be anticipated”, but I couldn’t find that, probably because I’ve phrased it wrong. Then I searched for just “knowledge by its...
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February 2009
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December 2008
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The same tile, tiled.
I have to keep the previous post as well or the arcane rules of tumblr will cause the image to be deleted.
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A giraffe-skink hybrid
Possibly one day I will add a jungle background, just as an exercise in drawing backgrounds. That was where I was going with this.
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