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24th October 2005

How do I kern? | Ask MetaFilter

“I need help understanding the concept of kerning fonts. Is there a formula to it, or is it really what looks ‘best?’”

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24th October 2005

Why are people such bad estimators?

“Painters say 5 days, it takes 8. Designers say 2 weeks, it takes 4. Programmers say 3 months, it takes 5. Government says it will take $X and it takes $XX. It’s been a very rare occasion (in my life, at least) that estimates have been anywhere near accurate. Even people in business for 20 years seem to have a bad time making accurate estimates. I realize an estimate is just a guess, but there’s a lot of bad guessing going around. What is it about people that make us such bad estimators?”

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24th October 2005

Call to action: The demise of CSS hacks and broken pages

“We‚Äôre starting to see the first round of sites and pages breaking due to the CSS fixes we have made. We would like to ask your help in cleaning up existing CSS hacks in your pages for IE7. It is has been our policy since IE6 that under quirks doctype we will not make any behavioral changes so that existing pages will continue to render unmodified, but under the strict doctype we want to change behavior to be as compliant as possible with the web standards.”

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24th October 2005

ASME’s TOP 40 MAGAZINE COVERS OF THE PAST 40 YEARS

“The 40 greatest magazine covers of the last 40 years were unveiled today at the American Magazine Conference… Rolling Stone’s January 22, 1981 cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was named the top magazine cover to appear since 1965, while Vanity Fair’s cover featuring a naked, pregnant Demi Moore (August 1991), ranked as the # 2 cover.” (More info)

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