Time Is Tight

Here’s a list of pingable update monitors along with a comparison of these services and opinion about whether you really need to ping them all (via clagnut).

The most succinct definition of “pop” and “R&B” I’ve ever read:
The separate designation of pop and R&B bears explaining. Pop in the record industry is a euphemism for white; R&B means black. Until 1949 Billboard listed music by black artists as “race” records, but then a staffer named Jerry Wexler coined the term rhythm and [...]

Update: This entry was a link to two maps at World66 showing the countries that my wife and I have visited, but the maps seem to keep changing. I probably should have copied the the images in the first place, but now I don’t really feel like redoing the lists.

Just in case I’m not the last person in the world to have seen it (I probably am), here’s something for users of Mozilla-based browsers.
And here’s an explanation and discussion for the rest of us.

A couple of good articles and a survey to consult when considering fonts for the web:

Luxury Type
The New Typography
The VisiBone Font Survey Result lists over 200 fonts broken down by overall browsershare, Mac browsershare, and Linux browsershare.

(Via Vincent McCurley and Ask MetaFilter.)