Something to try

There's an oracle in Brooklyn. Trust me on this one.

If you go to the Pintchik where Bergen St. and Flatbush Ave. meet you'll see the big billboard advertising sales, the time of day, and whatever else. It also answers your questions. Nearby there's a phone. If you pick up the receiver, ask a question, and the oracle is feeling up to it, your answer will be displayed on the billboard.

bat for lashes *tonight*

I recently experienced a live musical performance of, Bat For Lashes, the work of British singer/ songwriter, multi- instrumentalist and visual artist Natasha Khan. They are playing tonight at the Knitting Factory in NYC...go see them!

"Bat For Lashes’ music is bold and vivid. Her live shows, with accomplices Ginger Lee, Abi Fry and Lizzy Carey, are made up of thunderous marching band drums, desert guitar, ballet school piano, harpsichord, sub-bass snarls, hand-claps and naive beats, with the women fluidly switching and swapping their instruments between songs."

Web-safe Fonts

Once in awhile, one of our colleagues or team members asks which fonts are common enough to all user machines that they can be considered web-safe. With each new release of an operating system -- and sometimes even with version releases -- this changes. So we thought we'd use this post to list today's web-safe fonts.

The following fonts are common to virtually all late-model computers, including Mac, Linux/UNIX, and Windows machines.

Sans Serif

• Andale Mono
• Arial
• Arial Black
• Century Gothic
• Impact
• Trebuchet MS
• Verdana

Serif

• Georgia
• Times New Roman

Monospace

• Courier New
  

Cursive

• Comic Sans MS

NOTE that when using CSS, you can specify the following generic font families in the font-family property: sans-serif, serif, monospace, cursive, or fantasy.

Lazlo Bane + Colin Hay

Went to see Lazlo Bane open for Colin Hay last night at Canal Room. Really good show. LB lead Chad Fischer was relaxed, engaging, and very funny. They played a couple of my faves, "Trampoline" and "Breathe Me In," and the new, quite hilarious, "My Myspace Page." After the show, headed to dinner with Chad at Lucky Strike and we chatted about love, cycling, and doing a "Myspace" video.

1-800-Fix-IT

Even Philip Johnson Had Weaknesses

An excellent, if too short, recent NY Times article about Philip Johnson's Glass House posits that, despite his dominance in 20th Century architecture, even he had weaknesses. Imagine that?