“When Eric Eldred’s crusade to save the public domain reached the Supreme Court, it needed the help of a lawyer, not a scholar.” By Lawrence Lessig
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“News on information architecture, interaction design, mobile internet, robots, media theory, art, technology and much more.”
Draft pages from Edward Tufte’s new book Beautiful Evidence. “Here are some pieces of the sparkline chapter… I hope this material will be read carefully. Perhaps several Kindly Contributors will make some beautiful and interesting sparklines (or wordgraphics) with lots of data from a variety of fields… These little data lines… are small, high-resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers and images. Sparklines are data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics.”
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“Nathan is one of the pioneers of experience design and popularized the term with the first dedicated book on the topic. He is an expert and leader in the fields of information architecture, interaction design and online and interactive media, with extensive professional experience as an innovator.”
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“The Code Style font sampler is a reference point to the most common fonts available on Web users’ computers. Select your platform to try the samples and participate in the font survey.”
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“Welcome to the test site for exploring the Forma Urbis Romae, or Severan Marble Plan of Rome. This enormous map, measuring ca. 18.10 x 13 meters (ca. 60 x 43 feet), was carved between 203-211 CE and covered an entire wall inside the Templum Pacis in Rome. It depicted the groundplan of every architectural feature in the ancient city, from large public monuments to small shops, rooms, and even staircases.”
“Pick a color value format, input two valid CSS color values in the format you chose, and pick the number of midpoints you’d like to see. The palette will show the colors you input as well as the requested number of midpoint colors, and the values of those colors.”
“Computer security as a discipline was first studied in the early 1970s, although the issues had influenced the development of many earlier systems such as the Atlas system and Multics. Unfortunately, many of the early seminal papers are often overlooked as developers (and sometimes researchers) rediscover problems and solutions, leading to wasted time and development effort.”
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