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5/20 Googly links for the day

Google Fonts
A combination of a hosted CSS file that utilizes @font-face, and a library of open-source fonts that require no licensing costs. This is amazing.
Google may face legal challenges if it opensources vp8 codec
 This whole WebM thing seems set to stop the browser video format war before it even gets off the ground, but is it even legal? This stuff confuses me. Let's all get along and play some video on the internets. Without Flash. That's all any web developer cares about.
Google TV
 Cause Google doesn't own enough stuff in your life

5/20 It's almost here

The finale...

5/19 Links: World happening edition

The Pirate Party takes over hosting the Pirate Bay
"The only thing we have in common with today’s politicians is that you can vote for us." First off... there's a pirate party? Freaking ARRRRR! (hat tip Download Squad) 
Violence rocks Thai capital
This Al-Jazeera story paints it as basically over, but while this particular event is (and many red shirt leaders have either fled the cities or turned themselves in to try to stave the violence), a friend in Thailand says: "the majority want elections to count, and the minority is not willing to give up power. what do you do with that situation?"
Wal-Mart still selling cadmium jewelry
 America's largest retailer knowingly selling bad stuff? Nah.
IK Multimedia group buy
IK sells SampleTank expansion kits for $50 apiece. Right now this "group buy" thing (thanks Groupon for inspiring everyone to do it, although it smacks of inauthenticity when a company is doing this itself) will get you 5 expansions for the price of one. If you have IK store points, then it's even less. (You get a free version of SampleTank with this)

5/18 RIP Dio

I'll admit. I wasn't always the biggest Dio fan. I still prefer the Ozzy years of Black Sabbath, but that's because I like the sludgy heavy sounds, not because I think Ozzy is a better singer (he certainly wasn't a better lyric writer, "the devil is bad, war is bad, do drugs yeahhhh").

But I did always like those first couple solo album, and still do, and I've come to terms with the two Black Sabbath albums he did. "Come to terms with" sounds weak. I spin Heaven and Hell and The Mob Rules a LOT. It should be easy to see for any metal fan that they reinvented themselves for the 80s successfully when the heavy metal world was starting to pass them by. And Dio had a huge part in that. Sadly, I never got to see their reunion as Heaven And Hell.

At any rate, there were few sets of pipes as amazing as Dio's. RIP, here's one last set of horns for you: \m/