links for 2009-01-13

a wrapper script that calculate (php5) sunset and sunrise time

up-to-date weather information for your location.

UK location for Yahoo weather forecast – useful to get the location ID used to generate the RSS feed to reda

JavaScript code to detect available availability of a particular font in a browser using JavaScript and CSS.

very interesting DOM technique to check for the availability of a font on a computer using javascript and an educated guessing system: the width of elements containing the text object; one has a default standard that serves as a reference, the other block receive the font we would like to test (if it's available on the client computer). if size remains equal, the second defaulted the font: the font is not available; otherwise: the sizes will vary and we know the font is installed. very neat!