"It was an ordinary bus trip with crying babies and hot sun, and countryfolk getting on at one Penn town after another, till we got on the plain of Ohio and really rolled, up by Ashtabula and straight across Indiana in the night."

—excerpt from On the Road by Jack Kerouac

A new typography blog, Usable Type, comments on typography issues in CSS design. Nice layout.

Send a TypeFlake. Link via typographica

Some welcome news: The New Absurdist is back online after a 4 month hiatus. Bring on the absurdist fiction! I myself have posted a little micro-fiction piece there today, titled gaijin neo-punks inject raw blue sun. Won't you please read it?

In the bar I told Dean, "Hell, man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict."

—excerpt from On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The December / January issue of rumble is now online, featuring some excellent micros. If you're in a hurry, I'd say read Netsuke Saviors because I really really like it.

A small set of 32 x 32 icons from the mighty head

"I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. I had just gotten over a serious illness that I won't bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with the miserably weary split-up and my feeling that everything was dead. With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road."

—excerpt from On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Big list of Freeware Foundaries (free fonts) from the Microsoft Typography section. Download link to the must have Windows 95 font smoother. Make your crappy 95 machine display like XP. Additionally, this tool gives you full color display on all your desktop icons.

Register for a free Adobe ID and download Adobe Euro Fonts

A few links to some nice font resources, including free fonts and free programs for font-editing. All links via webgraphics:

Quality free fonts: type oasis | blue vinyl | pennyzine fonts
Font Editors: alphabet synthesis machine | autotrace | x-fonter
Unique service: fontifier

A new story by Kurt Vonnegut:
Have I got a Car for You!
A page of links to Bob Dylan Bootleg MP3's
Ninjas killed my family! via dph

A previously unpublished Kill Television micro:   LOVE

The first thing I remember was the dark and feeling lonely. I cried and cried my face was wet the door opened light and my mom came in. It's OK Maxi she said her voice was soft she picked me up she felt warm and I was glad. We went into another room and she fed me a bottle. It made me sleepy don't bring the kid in here said my dad he never shuts up he's your kid too she said. I don't remember that part too well because I fell asleep but it really happened.



Everybody is linking this, but in my defense I must say that it is a very good link. Here's another one, a late entry via spitting image.

"...a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.

Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have we come in to the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?"

—excerpt from Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

A newly reformatted version of The Ramones Manifesto is now online. Text remains the same.

The redesign of The Mighty Head is nearly finished. All the main pages are online; the last of the micro-fiction pages went up today. A few older pages need to be styled in order to bring them inline with the new look, but that can be done piece by piece. I think I spent at least 40 hours doing it, not counting offline hours.

So that's good. Good for me.

"He did not believe in God, nor in Heaven or Hell, but he was afraid they might be true. He did not believe in angels with soft faces and bright wings, but he believed in the dark spirits that hovered above the heads of lonely men."

—excerpt from Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

Here's a nice little online tool, the online image editor, for when you're caught away from your home computer and need image work done. It's versatile and does a bit more than you might expect.

I just got my first 5 spams at G-mail. Ah well.

From fishbucket comes the Van Gogh Museum baby.

"An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney, a customized Windows-based program to suppress Democratic votes on touch screen voting machines, a Florida computer services company with whom Feeney worked as a general counsel and registered lobbyist while he was Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and top level officials of the Bush administration."

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Anyway my site re-designing is almost done so I'll be posting some more bits and pieces more often I hope. Until next time...