dots and loops

Edit: The Lilina website has moved here. I believe this new incarnation has incorporated many of my hacks, so I would recommend checking it out.

Lilina-head is my hack of the lilina aggregator.
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I am a bona-fide syndication freak. Before the advent of RSS, atom, and other world live web technologies, the only site I read regularly was the BBC. Now, with the help of aggregators, I sit back and let the headlines come to me. Now my online reading encompasses countless sites… many of which I would otherwise forget about if it wasn't for the occasional headline trickling in. The time for the world live web is now, and the possibilities are endless.
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Accesskeys have great potential if you ask me.

For those that don't know, accesskey is an attribute of the html a (anchor) tag, and lets you assign a key for use in triggering the link. Essentially this provides hotkey type access to a web pages links. Of course, as is usually the case, all the browsers have gone out of there way to take a good thing and screw it up.
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I was sitting hunched and spindly at my computer tonight pondering font clash, tracking and kerning, when something suddenly occurred to me… I am seriously deranged when it comes to fonts.

Simply put, I spend entirely too much time thinking about fonts. I can't tell you the number of times I've changed the title font on this site, and the body font. About the only thing I've been happy with is the beautiful but strong, perfectly smooth and solid curves of the Frutiger font that is used in my banner (now changed). Now there's a font for you.
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The shameful history of the Arial font, and it's sordid connections with MS, is recounted with great acumen by Mark Simonson. You'll always use the pious and revered Helvitica after reading this. For font junkies only.