Alphabet Soup is a project which attempts to determine a number of things about the shapes of letters in several different writing systems. First, it hypothesizes a set of basic building blocks that all letters are built up from. Second, it hypothesizes a set of rules, a grammar or syntax, which defines how those pieces combine to make different letters.

how to properly use the new CSS type elements (including @font-face) by Simon Pascal Klein

A Ruby-based project management system with support for wiki, bug tracker and sync with version control

the basics of creating a GTK+2 theme for use with GNOME 2.2 and above

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Pyjamas does python code to javascript translation. This implies that pyjamas code will never be fully python compliant, but it aims at being close to the real thing. You'll need to be aware of what it does and does not support, and how to access features of python in a way that works with pyjamas.

calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Convert a Pocket Reporter Moleskine into a Hipster PDA. Stores cards loose and bound, stands easel-style upright, holds a pen, with room for PostIts and PagePoints.

The Hipster PDA (Parietal Disgorgement Aid) is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options. Best of all, the Hipster PDA fits into your hip pocket and costs practically nothing to purchase and maintain.

GTD Tiddly Wiki is a GettingThingsDone adaptation by NathanBowers of JeremyRuston's Open Source TiddlyWiki. The purpose of GTD Tiddly Wiki is to give users a single repository for their GTD lists and support materials so they can create/edit lists.

Jython does its best to shield a Python programmer from the details of Java, but you'll still need to know some of those details to use Java objects and libraries most effectively from Jython.

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Fitts' Law: So you think you are an interaction designer? Not if you cannot answer all the following questions quickly and with authority.

The egrep program is used to scan files for character strings (e.g. words). Its basic function is to go through a text file line for line, and print all lines matching a search pattern or regular expression to `standard out(put)'.

With LAIKA, there is finally a font that can seamlessly use the whole spectrum of its cuts. A font that is able to move between its extremes in real time. An interactive font that is able to respond to its surroundings.

The WOFF format originated from a collabaration between the font designers Erik van Blokland and Tal Leming with help from Mozilla’s Jonathan Kew. The format itself is intended to be a simple repackaging of OpenType or TrueType font data, it doesn’t introduce any new behavior, alter the @font-face linking mechanism or affect the way fonts are rendered.

For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words.