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Archive for February, 2004

I Ping the Body Electric

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

Here’s a list of pingable update monitors along with a comparison of these services and opinion about whether you really need to ping them all (via clagnut).

Blues and Rhythm

Friday, February 20th, 2004

The most succinct definition of “pop” and “R&B” I’ve ever read:
The separate designation of pop and R&B bears explaining. Pop in the record industry is a euphemism for white; R&B means black. Until 1949 Billboard listed music by black artists as “race” records, but then a staffer named Jerry Wexler coined the term rhythm and [...]

Countries

Friday, February 6th, 2004

Update: This entry was a link to two maps at World66 showing the countries that my wife and I have visited, but the maps seem to keep changing. I probably should have copied the the images in the first place, but now I don’t really feel like redoing the lists.

The Book of Mozilla

Thursday, February 5th, 2004

Just in case I’m not the last person in the world to have seen it (I probably am), here’s something for users of Mozilla-based browsers.
And here’s an explanation and discussion for the rest of us.

Typography on the Web

Sunday, February 1st, 2004

A couple of good articles and a survey to consult when considering fonts for the web:

Luxury Type
The New Typography
The VisiBone Font Survey Result lists over 200 fonts broken down by overall browsershare, Mac browsershare, and Linux browsershare.

(Via Vincent McCurley and Ask MetaFilter.)

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