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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Swotting up on CSS, with my nose buried in Cascading Style Sheets: designing for the web by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos. Full of very useful information, more accessible (to me) than Eric Meyer’s Cascading Style Sheets 2.0. I’ve isolated many things I need to do in the future to clean up the sty...

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