This sounds great. Markdown is fabulous, but the little things GitHub has changed make a lot more sense for people who aren’t familiar with Markdown’s rules.
New typefaces, Mr Eaves Sans and Mr Eaves Modern, designed to complement one of Emigre’s most popular faces, Mrs Eaves.
A small vector graphics library for JS with support for all major browsers.
New jQuery plugin by Scott Robbin that animates based on the cursor’s proximity to an object. Neat!
Part one of a rare, hour-long interview with Alfred Hitchcock by Tom Snyder from 1973 (via kottke.org)
The Canadian media have latched onto a study just published which puts the average age of those with H1N1 flu illness at 32. As a 31 year old, this obviously concerns me, but a closer look reveals that of the 168 patients, the most common ages were 0–5 (24 people), 20–25 (16 people) and 50–55 (15 people). “Average age” is a fairly meaningless statistic when applied across a broad sample. Only 12 of the people were between the ages of 30–35.
The Ident Engine is a JavaScript API to retrieve public user data like profiles, photos, reviews, etc. from social networks.
The Star has deployed a new design of their site today. At first glance, it’s a much cleaner, grid-obedient layout, with more space for each story. Subsections are now two clicks away from the homepage — a change I find for the worse. They’re also offering four different “views” for the homepage. Besides the normal one we’re used to, there’s a photo-centric visual view, a blog-style timeline view, and a everything-is-equal grid view. I can see the appeal of the visual view, but the others seem moot to me. Finally, I notice that they’ve put Helvetica ahead of Arial in their font-family rule. Anti-Arialists rejoice.
