Enjoy this vintage PSA from the 80’s as a token of my appreciation.

It would seem the volume of tweets containing the hash tag “#FuckFBIFriday” has dwindled tremendously. Lets frame a few things up, just for perspective.

• Hector Monsegur Arrested -> June 7th, 2011
• Fuck FBI Friday, 1st Ed. is Released -> June 5th, 2011
• Every Following #FFF Likely Lead to an Arrest -> ???
• PROFIT!!!

Is it me, or is this hilarious? Leaderless organization is an oxymoron. Democracy can’t exist in any system, suffice to say this is fairly decent evidence to support such a statement. If Sabu weren’t a leader, he wouldn’t have been as valuable to the FBI.

I’m sure I’ll catch some shit for this. Probably at least a little. I’m not so legally using a font for my website to display code. It’s not the cheapest font in the world, either. I certainly don’t have permission to use it, and anyone can look at the CSS in my blog and grab it. I don’t really care, though. That’s an insane amount of money to charge for a font. It’s a fucking FONT, people. I realize you’ve put some effort into it’s creation, but it’s also not perfect. It’s not the best damn font I’ve ever seen, nor is it useful in 100% of situations I’ve encountered.

I’ve tried probably about ten suggestions found all over the web, and this is the only method I’ve found to function universally, across every browser I’ve tested it with.

@font-face {
    font-family: 'NameOfFontFamily';
    src: url('/font/file.eot?') format('eot'),
    url('/font/file.woff') format('woff'),
    url('/font/file.ttf') format('truetype');
}

You can use online font converters to convert an OpenType or TrueType font to *.eot and *.woff as needed. For whatever reason, the “?” appears to be important as well. Not sure about that, I’ll have to look into it further.

This is a handy guide to interpreting common phrases you may come across on the internet.

Alright, that’s it for now. I’ll probably do a follow up if I think of more inane shit to drop on this topic.

I can’t sleep and can’t think of anything good to blog about, so I’m going to throw up my Vim startup script. This is what works for me, and I’m using it with gvim as well as a slightly modified version for vim. Without further ado, the startup script that makes the world’s best text editor even more useful to me:

colors desert
syntax on
set gfn=PragmataPro:h12,Arial\ Unicode\ MS:h12
set backspace=2
set shm+=I
set ls=2
set ruler

"UTF-8 Shizzle
if has("multi_byte")
  if &termencoding == ""
    let &termencoding = &encoding
  endif
  set encoding=utf-8
  setglobal fileencoding=utf-8
  "setglobal bomb
  set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
endif

"Begin custom function for search
highlight found gui=undercurl guibg=#121212 guifg=#6458f0 guisp=#6767ff

function Supafind()
  let farg = input("Search Regex: ")
  call matchadd("found",farg)
  echo ""
endfunction

map <F2> :call Supafind()<CR>
map <F3> :call clearmatches()<CR>:echo "Cleared Matches"<CR>

When I first began using Jekyll, I noticed that throwing in a Youtube embedded video made it go apeshit. I Googled for a bit to discover that Maruku wasn’t happy with HTML, and was taking any and all HTML and interpreting it to XHTML. Youtube doesn’t provide “Embed” data in XHTML format. Here is an example of a typical Youtube embed:

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ" 
        frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

That’s taken verbatim from Youtube. There are two problems here. First, XHTML doesn’t like lone attributes. The allowfullscreen attribute has to be changed to allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" to be usable. If you even use it. I’ve heard reports of people embedding videos without it at all. Second, Jekyll devs openly admit Jekyll swallows empty end tags. Thankfully, their admission gleans a helpful hint in fixing it. Simply insert a space between <iframe> and </iframe>. The end result is as such:

If you’ve seen a good number of Jekyll blogs and find yourself pretty jealous, there really aren’t any excuses anymore. Jekyll Bootstrap literally removes all difficulty from using Jekyll. It’s basically a layer over Jekyll that has built in support for theming, post creation, and more. With Jekyll Bootstrap, you really need to know very little of the command line. If you have a favorite theme that’s Jekyll based, chances are that user has made it available on the internet via Github. Hurry up and check it out.