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For those of you out there who love the idea of saving the world but just aren’t sure how, now you can download a Word Document (.rtf) with over 30 ways to reduce your contribution to the exponentially worsening problem of Global Warming. So now you can print it out and cross things off the list, instead of just forgetting about it by the time you get to the next post…

This is a compilation of the ideas presented on climatecrisis.net, the official website of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s amazingly insightful documentary.

There is a PHP + CSS image replacement technique you can use on your site to dynamically generate beautiful typographic headings that are also completely accessible. The best part is it is all server-side scripting so your viewers browser doesnt need to depend on having any special plugins to get it to work.

considerations:

• You need to have access to your web server so you can upload fonts etc
• It doesnt work when images are turned off in the browser

Now there is a new option: sIFR 2.0. sIFR is meant to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash. See it in action on Wales in Style:

considerations:

• Requires Flash and Javascript to be installed in the browser to work
• If Flash isn’t installed (or obviously if javascript is turned off), the (X)HTML page displays as normal and nothing further occurs. If Flash is installed, javascript traverses through the source of your page measuring each element you’ve designated as something you’d like “sIFRed”.

sIFRed is a great option for those who need to create large paragrahps of text, or those who are struggling with the old CSS + PHP method to get their fonts looking nice and crisp.

A highly addictive non-vegetarian game that’ll keep you entertained this weekend:

As seen on ClickNathan - the Secret Blog.

Can’t see this video? Click here to watch it.

After weeks of buildup, excitement and just two scratchy hours sleep, I arrived in Chicago early this am to spend the weekend with Nykki (sans the rebel yell). My eyes, ears (not so much the nose) down to the toes have been stuffed full with spoiling and good times already…

Nykki’s apartment is in the heart of downtown Chicago, a highrise with unbelievable views of the city and it’s just 8 blocks away from the Sears Tower. I nervously left my only passport with the security guard at the entrance, and strangely the whole place looks and feels like a hotel and even requires those swiper access cards. Pretty snazz.

Tonight we’ll be dining Lebanese style; after that we’ll probably down tall glasses of deadly eyeball-screaming frozen margheritas till we get thrown out and are forced to stumble home.

I can’t wait to spend a night in China Town (it’ll be my first time). Ooh and tomorrow evening we have something really spectacular planned! I’ll post more soon with piccies!

Dr. Ravi is my doctor, which totally makes me a VIP. Check it out!