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October 5, 2010
This week, Thailand’s ‘Mr. Condom’ gives a funny, frank talk on his country’s plan to control population growth, and Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for an eco-friendly, fungus-based packaging material.

Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to our established economic principles, explaining how to stop feeding crises and start investing in our future. Watch now >>

Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture — and the environment. Watch now >>

Thailand’s ‘Mr. Condom,’ Mechai Viravaidya, talks about the country’s bold plan to raise its standard of living with population control. Watch now >>

Psychoanalyst Inge Missmahl is working to build a system of psychosocial counseling — to heal the inner wounds of the people — in war-torn Afghanistan. Watch now >>
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(Via Link to TED.)

Google Shakes It Up Again With Free Phone Calls: “A new feature from Google makes it clear that one day, the Internet, not the outrageous cellphone companies, will connect our calls.”

(Via Pogue’s Posts.)

 

I can hardly wait

A few free fonts from iMovie ’09: “I was changing some preferences in iMovie ’09 when I noticed there’s a cool font in the last tab – Coolvetica.

I was sure I don’t have it installed on my system, so I dug in the application itself and there it was, together with some other nice fonts, like Duality or Strenuous, which I might use later for some titling in FCP – that’s what those fonts were used for.

Right-or control-click the iMovie icon in Applications folder, and select Show Package Contents. Then go to Contents/Resources/Fonts, and double-click and install those you like.

I searched Hints but only found a story about one font in Aperture. People in the comments there are discussing the legality of extracting fonts from Trial software, but iMovie is on every new Mac.

[crarko adds: If you have iLife ’09, I would think your conscien …


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(Via Mac OS X Hints.)