links for 2010-01-11
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"With the release of OS X 10.6, Apple provides one additional face ‘Medium’, font-weight: font-weight: 500. For a web developer (and more so for the end?user of a web page…), this results in a small surprise. When viewing a page that contains <strong> or <b> elements with a Gecko based browser, those elements suddenly look much less dark or fat than they used to on OS X 10.5."
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"Looking at the design of most web pages today, almost exclusively all of them include some semi-transparency of elements. However, getting the desired effect in CSS is harder than one might think."
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“When Braille was invented, in the 19th century, we had nothing else. We didn’t even have radio. At that time, blindness was a disability. Now it’s just a minor, minor impairment.”
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"Have you ever thought about what happens when you surf the web? It’s not as simple as it seems"
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"On June 12, 1979, the Gossamer Albatross became the first fully human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel. The 70-lb aircraft completed the 26-mile flight in 2 hours, 49 minutes, clinching the second prestigious Kremer Prize for Dr. Paul MacCready."
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"My name is Don Monroe and I am fortunate to have witnessed and photographed much of Dr. Paul MacCready’s work with human-powered flight and solar-powered flight in the late 1970s and the early 1980s."