Rich and Strange Aeons

Some years ago I played with Livejournal styles, and customized it to use a font I liked. I later found I'd been using Windows, and the Edwardian Script ITC I liked there for display wasn't on Linux, but then I found Elegante, and it was even better. And I found URW Palladio, a Palatino derivative, for the body.

But these aren't common fonts, and while I tried putting in alternatives, like URW Chancery L or Monotype Corsiva or plain old Times, it's not the same. So all this time the way I saw my pages and the way you saw them probably weren't the same. Actually, on my eee, it wasn't the same either, since I'd forgotten how to get the fonts I liked.

But now, that's changed! I've learned about @font-face, and thus can serve the free fonts I want for my website. That doesn't work as easily for Livejournal, because Firefox doesn't like cross-domain font serves, but Google Webfonts has EB Garamond and FF will take that. And then it turned out that the the .htaccess magic here works too, so I can serve Elegante through LJ (and DW). Which means I could serve the URW Garamond No. 8 that I found before EB and am using on my computer, too, but eh, EB seems as good.

(I'd submitted Elegante to Webfonts, and I even got a friendly reply despite my not owning the font like they ask, but they don't like GPL as a font license and would like the author to submit under OFL. The author is some guy in Spain, I don't know if the e-mail I found is even him, the one in the license bounces.)

(Note Elegante is GPL, in the ttf-linex package of Ubuntu and maybe Debian? EB Garamond is Open Font License, and Garamond No. 8 under some custom free license.)

And ttf2eot converted the TTF (TrueType) files to EOT, so IE can probably stay with us cool kids. I don't have IE to test it with, though, I can just use my eee to verify that things work on a Linux box without the fonts.

So I predict a radical difference on everyone else's computers when they look now.

This is also how I've been seeing *your* LJ pages; I use "use my style". (Which also means I still see subjects on comments.)

Now if I could fix my DW style. It's very pretty but the header image has duplication and legibility problems.

Side note: seems odd that the Times website uses Georgia instead of Times New Roman. Wikipedia says even the physical paper doesn't use TNR any more. Though I guess Georgia is related.

Edit: worth noting this is related to my question about what fonts people use, not that anyone responded.
http://mindstalk.livejournal.com/345709.html

So, lyceum has declared she's actively dumping Facebook for Google+. mlc23 has been more active on G+, as well as retreating much of her content to a private blog. Google+ reportedly now has games, so presumably you can soon play Farmville there instead of on FB. anima views LJ/DW as online community things (like fandom circles), not friend following, whereas for me it's always primarily been about real friends, e.g. joining to comment on her posts and posting myself once lyceum and shiver had joined and followed me, and being happy when mlc23 gave up her *first* private blog to come here.

Le frigging sigh.

At dinner yesterday I mentioned boosting LJ over FB and the fandom-media teacher next to me said "no, Dreamwidth!" Heh.

Me, I'm tempted to cancel FB myself, what with all the changes and privacy leaks, but admit it's hard what with so many other people using it, and even some groups.

I don't know anything directly, but:
http://anima-mecanique.livejournal.com/121944.html
http://anima-mecanique.livejournal.com/122242.html

[edit: google news "livejournal" led me to:
http://news.com.com/Mass+deletion+sparks+LiveJournal+revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html
http://firefox.org/news/articles/408/1/Six-Apart-Deletes-500-LiveJournals-Many-Fannish/Page1.html
]

Various pornish fan and roleplay groups, but also abuse survivor groups, being stomped out.

I have a comment in the second entry, about how my friends and I had initially avoided blogging because of the perceived risk of putting tons of content on a commercial server which doesn't let you easily extract that content for private archiving. Aka "I could have told you so."

Warren Ellis is boycotting:
http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/103884.html

Warriors for Innocence respond:
http://www.warriorsfor innocence.org/2007/05/livejournal-six-apart-delete-hundreds.html

I broke the link due to reports of the site dumping adware onto IE browsers.
http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/14245.html

Marginal revolution gives us
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/06/price_discrimin.html

Travel website gives lower prices if you sort the prices lower to highest rather than the reverse. The comments mention other cases of different returned prices, based on starting configuration (baseline + features, or high end - features) or how narrow a search was.

Page for comments on http://mindstalk.net/socialhealth/

This entry is for general website comments.

Yes, I've figured a logical use of LJ might be to let people comment easily on my stuff, while keeping my actual permanent stuff under my domainname and control.

This entry is to let people comment on my Steven Brust web page.