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How to Avoid Domain Name Front Running
All of this naturally leads to the question, “How can I do a WHOIS lookup but hide my searches from prying eyes?”The answer involves using your computer’s terminal access that connects directly to registry databases, rather than using a web interface through your computer’s browser (see figure below). By doing that, you bypass the “middleman” registrar.
Google’s Font Directory and API for web fonts could have a transformative effect on how we read the web. The only problem is, Google has made it very difficult to download all of the actual font files.
Web designers must be free to experiment with these new fonts, to sketch, comp and get to know these typefaces in browser and non-browser applications. This is why I’m providing this archive.
The archive contains the most recent font files pulled from Google’s open source Web Fonts Directory project. All licenses, metadata and author credits are included.
* File size is shown in base-10 to match Snow Leopard’s Finder, please make sure the entire file has completely downloaded before expanding the archive. Archive is now served from Amazon S3. (No one told me there’s a free tier!)
If you agree Google has made it too difficult to download the fonts, please star this issue: Zip archive for non-technical users
Must have fonts for web designers.
Paul Baran, who dreamed up what became the internet’s fundamental architecture, an idea so out-of-this-world 50 years ago that AT&T wouldn’t deal with him, has died. He was 84.
The New York Times reports that Baran died on Saturday from complications of lung cancer.
Baran was working at the famed RAND corporation on a “survivable”communications system in the early 1960s when he thought up one of its core concepts: breaking up a single message into smaller pieces, having them travel different, unpredictable paths to their destination, and only then putting them back together. It’s called packet switching and it’s how everything still gets gets to your e-mail inbox.
The need to create of a resilient network was considered critical in the early days of the Cold War, when fears of a nuclear attack on military command and control systems were especially ripe. Baran, and others, postulated that with near infinite redundancy on how a message could get from here to there such a network could not be effectively destroyed — and was thus a credible deterrent to even trying.
Baran approached AT&T to build such a network. But the company, which at the time had the U.S. telephone monopoly and, backing Baran, could conceivably have also owned the internet, just didn’t see the possibilities.
In an 2001 interview with Wired, Baran recounted his reception.
The response was most interesting. The story I tell is of the time I went over to AT&T headquarters – one of many, many times – and there’s a group of old graybeards. I start describing how this works. One stops me and says, “Wait a minute, son. Are you trying to tell us that you open the switch up in the middle of the conversation?” I say, “Yes.” His eyeballs roll as he looks at his associates and shakes his head. We just weren’t on the same wavelength.
If you think in analog terms, the signal arrives instantaneously. If you think in digital terms, time moves very, very slowly, and you can do things like change the path while you’re in the middle of a syllable. But it was a mental block. They didn’t understand digital. It was mostly generational, but there were young analog guys who had the same problem. If a guy considered the model of transmission to be analog, transmission time was instantaneous. It was a hang-up that caused people to think I was bullshitting them or didn’t know what I was talking about.
But the Air Force got it, and at the end of the 1960s Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency built the Arpanet, which was subsequently replaced by the internet as we now know it.
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