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12th July 2002

THE .ORG TLD IS A PUBLIC TRUST

“This is a joint bid between the Internet Multicasting Service (IMS) and the Internet Software Consortium (ISC). We are both public benefit corporations with a long history of operating public works and creating freely available software for key infrastructure services on the Internet. The .org Top Level Domain (TLD) is the home for the noncommercial organizations of the world, and we would operate the .org registry service as a public trust…”

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12th July 2002

How to design a logo of letters

“Companies of every kind sign their names with linked letters called ligatures. Ligatures make excellent business signatures… Letters link differently. Some link in one typeface and not another. Others link in lowercase but not upper. What follows are two dozen ways to get your latter pairs beautifully together.”

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12th July 2002

How to design a logo of letters

“Companies of every kind sign their names with linked letters called ligatures. Ligatures make excellent business signatures… Letters link differently. Some link in one typeface and not another. Others link in lowercase but not upper. What follows are two dozen ways to get your latter pairs beautifully together.”

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12th July 2002

Fonts by Susan Kare

Atomic Media “Susan Kare is the mother of Clarus the Dogcow and creator of such pixelated niceties as the spinning watch, the bomb, and the happy mac. She also crafted many of the original Mac bitmap fonts. Thanks to Mr. Bardram at Atomic Media, some of Kare’s work is

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12th July 2002

Comprehensive guide to .htaccess

“I am sure that most of you have heard of htaccess, if just vaguely, and that you may think you have a fair idea of what can be done with an htaccess file. You are more than likely mistaken about that, however. Regardless, even if you have never heard of htaccess and what it can do for you, the intention of this tutorial is to get you two moving along nicely together. If you have heard of htaccess, chances are that it has been in relation to implementing custom error pages or password protected directories. But there is much more available to you through the marvelously simple .htaccess file…”

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12th July 2002

If a tire swing were a web site

Someone made a funny!

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12th July 2002

Jeffrey Veen’s Weblog

“Jeffrey Veen is an internationally sought-after speaker, author and consultant. He is a founding partner of Adaptive Path, a user experience consultancy focusing on the impact of design on business.”

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