assorted sweets #92003.05.31

Creating the Digital Future: “Content created for the American people, and in many cases paid for through their taxes, must be available to them without encumbrance or unreasonable cost.”

Too. many. checkmarks. (via Doc Searls)

Cory sounds off about Apple giving in to the “we are big business and we shall restrict you” mindset: “Apple wants to be the leader of the Digital Lifestyle pack. The digital lifestyle is all about the fluidity of bits, the fact that all computers on the Internet are, in some sense, in the same place, no matter where they're physically located.”

Two new finds I'm completely wild about:

Entity Replacement - This script replaces some common typed characters with the proper entities once the user is done editing a text box. Curly quotes, em and en dashes, and even bolding. Quite lovely.

fontBrowser - A Flash app that allows you to browse through the fonts on your system and preview them in different font sizes with different demo text. As a Windows user who has struggled her entire life with an easy, inexpensive, non-RAM gobbling way to preview her fonts, this is a godsend. Lovely, lovely, lovely. (via Chris Pirillo)

A girlfriend of mine and I are going to see Jack Welch speak in October. We're very excited. I've been reading about him recently in the book What The Best CEOs Know and honestly, I'm tempted to buy every book on his management style that there is. The idea of a learning culture, that he with the ideas makes the best contribution... truly spectacular.

Amazon/ToysRUs has a store for grownups, complete with desk toys like Sea-Monkeys on Mars and the Hoberman Expanding Universe Sphere. Also some really great retro games.

There are five kinds of busy. Scary but true.

Finally, beautiful photo. I am tempted to order a print. (via zeldman, in a roundabout way)

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