“Memetics is the theory of cultural replicators, based on Daniel Dennett’s philosophy-of-mind and the sociobiology of Richard Dawkins. Memetics postulates the meme as the fundamental replicating unit in social evolution, a process which is treated as technically equivalent to biological (genetic) evolution.”
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“There is a general agreement that content-based management and publishing is becoming a necessity for today’s Web professionals, but there is not a single, cut-and-dried solution available. There are many products out there; each should: 1) Divide responsibility for content; 2) Structure a workflow for creating, approving, and publishing content; 3) Separate copy from presentation; 4) Avoid duplication of efforts or content by storing all data in a central repository. By paying attention to these fundamentals, you can achieve a high-quality Website that presents correct and useful information.”
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“Or: why correct math looks wrong on screen and how to fix it. Excerpts from the presentation at the training session on 29 October 1997 (updated in March 1998) given by Beat Stamm, lead developer of Visual TrueType. …Although the graphical user-interface of VTT dramatically simplifies the task of font hinting, the tool is not for the novice. The learning curve is fairly steep, simply because hinting requires professional skills regardless of the tools. Even accomplished type designers who have been using Fontographer and FontLab for years to design fonts have evaluated VTT and decided that professional hinting is not for them.”
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Ha! Take a look at what the Microsoft “Usability” pages looked like to me this morning (IE 5, Mac): ms01.gif, ms02.gif, ms03.gif. Usable? Oops. [Links have been deleted.]
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