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On diacritics | i love typography, the typography and fonts blog
Spectacular article on diacritics (Latin, mostly), with an eye on what they mean, why they aren't like punctuation, and how to design them.
(tags: diacritics typography design language fonts)

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Unit Interactive :: Blog :: Better CSS Font Stacks
Nathan from unit interactive shows the path away from "web-safe fonts" towards a more interesting web typography - while preserving reasonable fallbacks. Check the PDF file.
(tags: web reference webdesign typography)

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12 Examples of Paragraph Typography — Jon Tan 陳
Simple but effective examples of web typography at the paragraph level complete with CSS implementation snippets.
(tags: web webdesign css typography)

30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Photoshop | Arbenting
Need to learn better Photoshop skills some time in 2009. Not high priority, though if necessary, this here is a […]

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  • Ugh. "To prove his point, Davis and his IOActive colleagues designed a worm that self-propagates across a large number of one manufacturer's smart meter. Once infected, the device is under the control of the malware developers in much the way infected PCs are under the spell of bot herders. Attackers can then send instructions that cause its software to turn power on or off and reveal power usage or sensitive system configuration settings."

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  • This is a very strange survey. The methodology makes basically no sense to me — are they guessing the selector? "The scripts that update this page retrieve the names of the web sites that are most popular across the globe, as well as in select countries, from alexa.com in regular intervals. They then check whether the DNS entry for each site nameThe scripts that update this page retrieve the names of the web sites that are most popular across the globe, as well as in select countries, from alexa.com in regular intervals. They then check whether the DNS entry for each site name reflects that it uses DKIM. reflects that it uses DKIM."

    Not to mention that having a DKIM public key in a DNS record does not equate to deploying DKIM!

  • SEC staff falls victim to email From: address spoofing. Though the post contains a blunder regarding DKIM.

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