10th
August
2005
“In a fascinating but unsurprising study of gender bias and Web design esthetics, the University of Glamorgan has demonstrated that male and female Web designers create decidedly different designs.”
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10th
August
2005
“In 1994, the members of European Parliament urged the creation of a new comprehensive road typeface system, the development of a ‘general high recognition and perception font’, and recommended adoption of uniform design practices. Now, after five years of extensive research, the European Committee for Uniformity of Type Design and Type Safety completed the research and presented legible-for-all-purposes-suitable-typeface.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)
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10th
August
2005
“To experiment with highspeed objects requires a very special technique. A perfect synchronization between the moving object and the actual taking of the photograph is needed. We talk about highspeed photography when we can’t see the fast movement with our eyes. It’s very difficult to see a fired bullet and even more difficult to take a photograph of it exactly at the moment it comes out of an object.”
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10th
August
2005
“Over the last two decades, the Pew people have plotted a steady decline in the credibility of newspapers among its survey respondents. In 1985, 84 percent said they could believe most of what they read in their daily newspaper, but by 2004 that number was down to 54 percent.”
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