May 10 - 11, 2012 was the innaugural year for QCMerge, a web conference in Cincinnati, and I couldn’t be more proud of how it went off.

I’ve been involved in QCMerge since it’s initial planning stages thanks to my work at Ample. There’s a ton of people to thank who put on QCMerge, especially the dudes at Gaslight Software, who carried the brunt of the work. There’s way too many others to thank personally, so head on over the the QCMerge site and see the sponsors and organizers for yourself.

Been crazy-busy this week, so I only had a chance to really enjoy four articles. Hope you enjoy them, too.

1. Tomorrow’s Web Type Today

   Elliott Jay Stocks has been on a tear lately publishing three articles about what’s possible on the bleeding edge of Web type with his Tomorrow’s Web Type Today series. Definitely some good inspiration here to check out what’s possible with some Open Type features on the web.

• The Fine Flourish of the Ligature

Intro is a great font family release from the guys behind the popular Museo typeface. Download two styles of it for free here, or buy all 26 font styles here for $99.

Back with five more. I make no promises to select articles that were published in the last week, just those I found interesting. Sort of an edited Instapaper liked feed, if you will.

1. Stephen King: Tax Me, for Fuck’s Sake!

   Stephen King, yes that Stephen King, writes a damned-fine essay scolding the superrich, including himself.

   (The superrich)… were fortunate enough to be born in a country where upward mobility is possible (a subject upon which Barack Obama can speak with the authority of experience), but where the channels making such upward mobility possible are being increasingly clogged. That it’s not fair to ask the middle class to assume a disproportionate amount of the tax burden. Not fair? It’s un-fucking-American is what it is. I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Paul Krugman nails it describing the debt conservatives are passing on to the youth of America:

But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future… We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy… …refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.