Monthly Shaarli

All links of one month in a single page.

October, 2009

Detexify LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition
Web Open Font Format for Firefox 3.6 at hacks.mozilla.org
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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.

egrep for Linguists

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)'.

100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words - Ars Technica
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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.

LAIKA - Eine dynamische Schrift

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.

Screen - Gentoo Linux Wiki
Python Project Howto — Python Project Howto

How to structure, test and release your Python FLOSS application

CYBERNETICS

Definition of cybernetics at Principia Cybernetica Web

WebApp: webpad: the web-based text editor « Dented Reality
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webpad is a web-based text editor written entirely in PHP (HTML, CSS and JS), and operates in your browser without any need for cumbersome plugins or extra downloads.