Internet Brain

Yes, another new style. This one’s the new default. It doesn’t go narrow enough to work on 800×600 screens. If you have problems with it, one of the others should be fine.

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Thinking With Type, “The on-line companion to the book ‘Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students,’ by Ellen Lupton (Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2004.”

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scriptygoddess Quick Reference guides for CSS, mySQL (plus others)

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adaptive path » metadata for the masses
Talks taxonomies without getting mired in information architecture nonsense (i.e. easy to read).

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Boing Boing: Tiny remote shuts off almost any TV in a public place
The device, which looks like an automobile remote, has just one button. When activated, it spends over a minute flashing out 209 different codes to turn off televisions, the most popular brands first.

It’s evil. I like it!

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I am Progressive Girl
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Take the ‘What Kind of Girl Are You?’ quiz at CookingToHookup.com

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HeroMachine 2.0u on UGO – The Ultimate Fantasy Entertainment Character Generator

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Are You A Blogaholic?
48 points is in the 21 through 50 precent
You are a casual weblogger. You only blog when you have nothing better to do, which is not very often. There’s nothing wrong with that. But if you’d post a little more often, you’d make your readers very happy.

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Neolithic Office for JavaTM, or NeoOffice/J for short, is one of the open source development projects that are a part of NeoOffice.org. NeoOffice/J’s primary goal is eliminating OpenOffice.org’s dependency on X11 using Java technologies.
In other words, Open Source Word that works natively on Mac OSX.

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37signals: An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements. Christopher Alexander, who came up with this stuff, calls these chunks patterns.

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Celestia is a free real-time space simulation that lets you experience our universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All travel in Celestia is seamless; the [...]

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walking paper: google sms
-Get local business listings when you’re on the road and want to find a place to eat
-Compare online product prices with ones you find in retail stores
I may have to get a web-enabled phone after all.

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MacCentral: Spyware bill passes House
Not that it’s a bad thing but isn’t the government trying to protect peoples’ privacy a conflict of interest?

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On my way into work today, 2 different people mistook me for a student. Which is good… I guess. I just wish I knew if that meant that I look that young or that bad.

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Techt kitten review.

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