“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.” Aslo: The ordering of the letters doesn’t matter.
“The following are the words of New York Times correspondent John F. Burns, on his experiences reporting from Baghdad during the war. Excerpted from the book Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, an Oral History by Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson, published this week by The Lyons Press, used with permission.”
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“Prototyping is one of the most common tasks of information architects, who are called on to produce everything from low-fidelity wireframes to clickable fully-functioning prototypes.”
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“This complaint is regarding Verisign’s recent decision to claim all non-registered .com and .net domain names for itself. It has done this by inserting a wildcard into the DNS registers, meaning an IP of 64.94.110.11 is returned for any domain name that has not yet been registered. That page is an advert for Verisign’s domin registration services This is unfair competition with existing registrars — there is no means for myself, for example, to gain a similar foothold without actually purchasing each and every currently unregistered .com/.net name.”
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“The phonetics we use in flying aircraft today are the phonetics recommended by the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU. The origins of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) trace back to the invention of the telegraph in the 19th century. [Here is] a complete list of the phonetics with their appropriate pronounciations…”
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