Google and Typekit have apparently worked together on a collaboration on open source fonts. In a nutshell, it appears to be the Typekit service, a javascript library called WebFont Loader and a bunch of open source fonts thrown into a mix together. Here’s Google’s and Typekit’s announcement. Note, though, that it doesn’t work on iPhone, iPad or Android as of yet. Still, I’ve got a good feeling about this.

Update: The previewer tool is also worth checking out.

Spotify has diversified a bit among their product line. There’s now a Spotify Open which doesn’t require an invite, and a step in between Premium and Free called Unlimited. Seems like a smart move and will probably pick up the remaining people who think 10 pounds a month is over the top. What they’ll miss out on? Mobile devices and offline playing (which for me at least pretty much only means mobile devices). Get an overview here.

Here’s something nerdy, but fun. David Desandro one day wondered if it would be possible to create a typeface using only CSS. And then he did it. It’s a nice mixture of span’s that create the inner workings of the typeface using border-radius and other goodies to perform this magic. It also looks pretty cool, in a chic kind of way. If the thought of this gives you a weird smirk on your face (like, you know, the kind of smirk I’ve got right now) I suggest you head over to his site and inspect the hell out of that code.

Update: Perhaps even cooler, how about The Opera Logo?

Finally!

Scary stuff, especially the part about Facebook automatically sharing your posts with “Community pages” without your authorization.

I hadn’t seen this one before – Simple English Wikipedia. For the days when, you know, you don’t have time for the fancy stuff.

Mashable has a list of enhancements coming for Wordpress 3.0. Looks like some well-needed updates!

A PHP flavour of John Gruber’s Markdown.

I can’t help but smile when I see a portfolio like Jonas Hellwig’s. I love it when there’s a consistency behind it, proving that whoever authored it gave the details some serious thought.

The Favorite Website Awards, more commonly known as FWA, has relaunched with a new design.

I found this article over at Mashable pretty interesting. I’ve always wondered if Spotify was doing well, and perhaps more importantly, how well they were doing.

A different way of scrolling – controlling two independent areas with one scroll bar. It solves a lot of scrolling problems, but at the same time it just feels weird.

A good introduction.

Lean back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

Checking out Notational Velocity now that it supports Simplenote syncing – it looks good! Oh, and if you want to make a backup of your Simplenote stuff there’s the Unofficial Simplenote backup tool. Pretty handy.

I guess that’s what it takes. Read on about how Google will finally stop filtering its search results in the People’s Republic.

Read all about it here. Pretty clever idea.

Thoroughly interesting interview with Scott Hansen, a.k.a Iso50 over at grain edit.

I have a complex relationship to organizing my life and all the to-do items that inevitably follow. The problem, I think, is that I haven’t yet found the “ultimate” To-Do interface to work with. And if it isn’t perfect, I just end up not using it. Currently I have notes spread out all over the place – with some stuff written down on my Sony Ericsson’s Notes application, random text documents, scribbled notes in the Dashboard, Gmail’s To-Do and also saved drafts in Gmail.

I need to gather these under one umbrella. I signed up for TeuxDeux and thought I’d give it a go. There’s always the risk of servers going down, or something similar, rendering you unable to access your account. But I guess that comes with the territory.

I guess I should just get myself an iPhone and I would be pretty much sorted with the mobility as well.

Now this is the way to read a newspaper online.