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18th January 2005

The art of photograph to canvas transfers

“Hello and welcome, you have just found the best place to get your photograph, digital camera file or artwork reproduced onto the finest artists canvas. We use only the highest quality inks to produce a high resolution print that has brilliant colors and deep rich blacks.” (Thanks laura Holder not com!)

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18th January 2005

How copyright could be killing culture

“The high cost of getting permission to use archival footage and photos threatens to put makers of documentaries out of business.”

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18th January 2005

Simple Character Entity Reference

“These charts will allow you to copy and paste the appropriate character and numeric entities for your documents. To be sure a particular browser supports the entities (both named and numeric), simply open your browser to this pages and view the charts. If the character you want doesnít appear in the target browser, it doesnít work (simple, huh?).” (Thanks Zeldman!)

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18th January 2005

These web sites are identicalóor are they?

“This survey compares 10 web sites through elements of their layout: styles, page construction and elementsÖ The survey seeks similarities and differences between those well known web sites, built by famous, talented designers (explanatory note). What can be observed is that those web sites agree on implicit, internalized layout and design norms (Consensus rate), and that deviance from these rules (Dissidence rate) is uncommon.”

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