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Environment: Ecofont
Here’s one more way to reduce the amount of resources you use without need.
The Dutch group SPRANQ has developed MS Windows and Mac font replacements that have little holes within the normally printed areas of a font to reduce the amount of ink used. The fonts are based on Vera Sans an open source font similar to Verdana. Their tests resulted in about 20% less ink used.
Downloads are available for MS Windows XP, MS Vista and Mac OS X.
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Gadgets: Pre-chewed pencils
With these pencils you can have a really lazy day at the office – you not even need to chew on them – they are already pre-chewed.
Four (natural wood) pencils for about GBP 1.5
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Humor: Google Trends meets Captain Obvious
Some things might be obvious, but when comparing cookies and weight on Google Trends, you’ll see that to the end of the year people seemingly care less for their weight and start looking for cookies.
Another one we’ve found is snow and ski (see below).
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Web Design: Color a web site
You can now listen to some of Tracy Chapman’s songs through her new web site with a really innovative (and interactive) design.
Visitors to her site can color all pages with a brush tool and fill the contours of all displayed elements.
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Google Search: List of available magazine
We played around with Google’s new feature to search and display complete magazines and here’s the list of currently available magazines we could find (35 magazines – in alphabetic order)…
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National Geographic: How to make Zero G Idents
The spots shown at the beginning of this video might not be so spectacular, but watch how those have been made later in this clip.
Amazing.
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