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links for 2008-10-26

chris @ October 27, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Indilo Wireless
Elver Loho's Estonia-based mobile development studio.
(tags: mobile development contractors)

exljbris :: Free Quality Font Foundry
exljbris makes very beautiful fonts in a modern look, many of which free to use for personal and commercial projects and gratis to download.
(tags: typography free fonts design)

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links for 2008-10-21

chris @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Amy Hoy | Can we can it with the damn "where are the women?" crap already?
Interesting rant, many complex and good points. Needs a conversation around it.
(tags: women gender feminism internet programming blogging)

BBC NEWS | Technology | Hi-tech brings families together
"We told you so."
(tags: culture family internet bbc)

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links for 2008-10-20

chris @ October 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Barry Schwartz | The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less
Google Video. Highly interesting talk about what choices people make faced with varying sets of options.
(tags: google video psychology usability)

FontShop | 'Jenseits von ASCII' Script Map
Fontshop offers (for free) this beautiful map of Europe, by script family, and availability in their fonts. Interestingly, the […]

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links for 2008-10-19

chris @ October 20, 2008 # One Comment

Mr. Verb | Immigrants learning English
Unsurprising for those with even the tiniest bit of familiarity in such topics: "Miranda Wilkerson […] and [Mr. Verb] contributor Joe just had a piece in American Speech showing that German-speaking immigrants to Wisconsin didn't learn English quickly, in fact even for two or three generations in many cases. It's […]

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links for 2008-10-07

chris @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet

BBC NEWS | Technology | Between a rock and an interface
An article on UI and UX design on BBC news. Nice getting mainstream exposure.
(tags: UX interface design psychology web2.0 internet)

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links for 2008-10-05

chris @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet

wikinear.com - use Fire Eagle to see wikipedia pages near you
(tags: wikipedia fireeagle location)

Tim Bray: I18N, M17N, UNICODE, AND ALL THAT
PDF of Tim Bray's talk at RubyCon 2006. Excellent intro to Unicode.
(tags: programming Python unicode ruby perl coding i18n l10n)

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