I love what happens when I put iTunes into shuffle mode and all songs. Wonderful transitions, like Jimi Hendrix Castles Made of Sand to Tim & We We Ca doing Hazo Ri Lagoureme. Makes even the dullest PageMaker session bearable. And that's just the most noticeable fabby segue so far today.

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While I don't exactly agree with the ostensible reason for Plagiarist.com's existence (but see also Plagiarism.com), it is a very handy site for finding a copy of a poem in a hurry. Google sent me there to find some e.e. cummings and I did.

If organizations are going to whine when they fail to get credit for something they’ve supported, the least they could do would be to make it easier. How many funding agencies — and this is a rhetorical question, unless you actually know — make it easy for one to download their logo in an appropriate format?

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Luigi pointed me to an article on The Inquirer¹ saying "kinda sick but they have a point", and he's not wrong. The article says PowerPoint carries some of the blame for the Columbia shuttle crash. Even more interesting is the great Edward Tufte's analysis² of the slide in question, which I see...

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A request for Drop Shadows on a bulletin board I read sent me to a new (to me) CSS site that contains a very neat solution (and lots of others). Having read the CSS, and admired the output, I bravely decided that I was not going to get caught up in putting drop shadows round my pictures. No sirree...

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