2 -- http://iotic.com/averia/
   
    Andy Baio : Avería, the average font
    <a href="http://iotic.com/averia/preview.php">preview them all</a> [<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/zarfeblong/status/130516949703725057">via</a>]&nbsp;
   
    nelson : Avería, the average font
    Synthetic font, actually quite beautiful
  
    (Tags: design fonts typography via:waxy)
  
  2 -- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
   
    migurski : The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
    THE tempo of today’s Web is different as well. A decade ago, a concept like the “real-time Web,” in which our every tweet and status update is instantaneously indexed, updated and responded to, was unthinkable. Today, it’s Silicon Valley’s favorite buzzword.

That’s no surprise: people like speed and efficiency. But the slowly loading pages of old, accompanied by the funky buzz of the modem, had their own weird poetics, opening new spaces for play and interpretation. Occasionally, this slowness may have even alerted us to the fact that we were sitting in front of a computer. Well, that turtle is no more.

Meanwhile, Google, in its quest to organize all of the world’s information, is making it unnecessary to visit individual Web sites in much the same way that the Sears catalog made it unnecessary to visit physical stores several generations earlier. Google’s latest grand ambition is to answer our questions — about the weather, currency exchange rates, yesterday’s game — all by itself, without having us visit any other sites at all. Just plug in a question to the Google homepage, and your answer comes up at the top of the search results.

Whether such shortcuts harm competition in the search industry (as Google’s competitors allege) is beside the point; anyone who imagines information-seeking in such purely instrumental terms, viewing the Internet as little more than a giant Q & A machine, is unlikely to construct digital spaces hospitable to cyberflânerie.

But if today’s Internet has a Baron Haussmann, it is Facebook. Everything that makes cyberflânerie possible — solitude and individuality, anonymity and opacity, mystery and ambivalence, curiosity and risk-taking — is under assault by that company. 
   
    splodinvark : The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
    Cyberflâneurs are few and far between, while the very practice of cyberflânerie seems at odds with the world of social media. What went wrong?
  
    (Tags: criticism evgenymorozov facebook filterfailure flaneur history internet nytimes paris social)
  
  2 -- http://kottke.org/12/02/how-to-parent-like-the-french
   
    Jason Kottke : How to parent like the French
    
   
    Les Orchard : How to parent like the French
    
  
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  2 -- http://txfx.net/2012/01/09/why-i-am-an-atheist/
   
    Andy Baio : How and why Mark Jaquith became an atheist
    gripping personal story of the life-affirming shift from faith to evidence [<a href="http://smarterware.org/9399/why-i-am-an-atheist">via</a>]&nbsp;
   
    gnat : Why I am an atheist and a naturalist
    
  
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