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12th July 2005

DoodleArchive.com

“Purpose: To document the art of the doodle — that spontaneous expression of thought, inspired yet underappreciated; simplistic yet memorable; transient yet powerful denizens of cocktail napkins, notebook margins and everywhere in between.”

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12th July 2005

Nvu (Web authoring system)

“Now available for download is Nvu 1.0 — a ‘complete web authoring system’ for Linux, Windows, and OS X. It’s free, and packs quite a punch in the features department — integrated FTP, site management, tabbed documents, spell checker, in-line preview, css editor, and numerous wizards for building tables, forms, and other elements.”

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12th July 2005

THE FINEST, INTERLOPINGEST F-LIGATURE

“So I like walked into the lab the other day and there it was just staring me in the face … and I said to my co-workers — like do you see what I see? And they’re all like — what? And I’m like — my gawd how can you NOT see what I see — it’s right there. And they’re like okay you’re starting to freak me out here — just calm down and tell me what the hell is going on. And I’m like look-at-that-f-ligature.”

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12th July 2005

abecedaria

“A blog about keyboarding in diverse scripts, literacy and digital literacy, and random quotes selected from the history of writing system theory.”

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