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Stokes Farm

Aunt Ruby’s German Green $4.75/lb.

Our judges declared this green-when-ripe heirloom New York’s number-one tomato for its “bright acidity,” “excellent sugar-acid balance,” and “incredible juiciness.” “Love it. Love it. I love it,” cooed a smitten Goldman.

Score: 8.83

Norwich Meadows Farm

TIE

Striped German $4/lb.

Judge Kluger praised it for an “almost candylike flavor.” Anthony liked its “beautiful” red-yellow color, and Goldman called it “excellent if soft.”

8.33

Sycamore Farms

Cherokee Purple $3.75/lb.

Neck and neck with Norwich’s Striped German thanks to a “concentrated flavor,” “silky flesh,” and a “long, aromatic finish.”

8.33

NY Mag has a great piece on tasting heirloom tomatoes. I was totally overwhelmed by the farmers' market's varieties last week, so this should help me this week. I wonder if they'll let me try the heirloom ones, they do with the beefsteaks (which have been great!).

Introduction

For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up. The advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high resolution screens, combine to negate technology as an excuse.

Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field.

In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS. The future is considered with coverage of CSS3, and practicality is ever present with workarounds, alternatives and compromises for less able browsers.

At the time of writing, this is a work in progress. I am adding to the site in the order presented in Bringhurst’s book, one principle at a time. You can subscribe to an RSS feed for notification of new additions.

I am excluding those principles which are not relevant to the Web or that do not require a technical explanation. Unfortunately this excludes the entire opening chapter, the Grand Design, which I heartily recommend you read as it lays down the foundations, philosophy and approach to good typography in any medium. If you were to take any working principle from the Grand Design, it would be this: Give full typographical attention even to incidental details.

Now start with Rhythm & Proportion or dip into the Table of Contents and enjoy pushing a few boundaries to create websites of real typographical worth.

— Richard Rutter, Brighton, 2005.

This looks like a fabulous read. It's one I wish teachers and administrators who manage school websites would read. Underline and bold and italics do not go together, but they are used with purpose, individually. Sorry, my pet peeve coming out, there...

I don't love this commercial, but I do love American soccer

The Courage Campaign put out another video pulling at our heart strings on the issue of marriage protection for all in California.

Please watch the video and sign the pledge

We, the undersigned, are united in our commitment to restoring marriage equality to California -- and making marriage equality the law across America.

We pledge to do everything in our power to overturn Prop 8 and win full equality at the federal level.

Almost all of the recipes in the NY Times slide show on healthy eating are vegetarian, and most are vegan. No shocker there. For those non-vegetarians, don't let that stop you, they look delicious!