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toronto.ca | Open
The City of Toronto (City) now grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose. more
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Voilà, CityMurmur! (please read with French “R”) | DensityDesign | Communication Design & Complexity
Theme of the symposium was “la ville cartographiée” (the city map), and to give our contribute to the discussion, we were warmly welcome to the ‘Cité des sciences et de l’industrie‘; built in the 19th arrondissement, just beside Parc de la Villette, ‘La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie’ is one of the world’s largest and most visited science museums, and looks as an impressive modern site which offers a wide variety of exhibitions and shows.
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October 2009
Against Transparency
Likewise with transparency. There is no questioning the good that transparency creates in a wide range of contexts, government especially. But we should also recognize that the collateral consequence of that good need not itself be good. And if that collateral bad is busy certifying to the American public what it thinks it already knows, we should think carefully about how to avoid it.
Internet Archive: A Future for Books -- BookServer
The BookServer is a growing open architecture for vending and lending digital books over the Internet. Built on open catalog and open book formats, the BookServer model allows a wide network of publishers, booksellers, libraries, and even authors to make their catalogs of books available directly to readers through their laptops, phones, netbooks, or dedicated reading devices. BookServer facilitates pay transactions, borrowing books from libraries, and downloading free, publicly accessible books.
FlashFXP :: FTP Client Software
Shadowbox.js Media Viewer
20,000+ Gmail, Yahoo, AOL Accounts Compromised [ALERT]
Unfortunately, Hotmail was only the beginning. Google (Google) has now confirmed that thousands of Gmail (Gmail) accounts were compromised by an “industry-wide phishing scheme.” According to the BBC, the login data of over 30,000 Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Comcast, and Earthlink accounts have been posted online.
Make a gift bow from a magazine page
September 2009
Techniques for WCAG 2.0
"Techniques for WCAG 2.0" provides information to Web content developers who wish to satisfy the success criteria of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 [WCAG20]. Techniques are specific authoring practices that may be used in support of the WCAG 2.0 success criteria. This document provides "General Techniques" that describe basic practices that are applicable to any technology, and technology-specific techniques that provide information applicable to specific technologies. The World Wide Web Consortium only documents techniques for non-proprietary technologies; the WCAG Working Group hopes vendors of other technologies will provide similar techniques to describe how to conform to WCAG 2.0 using those technologies. Use of the techniques provided in this document makes it easier for Web content to demonstrate conformance to WCAG 2.0 success criteria than if these techniques are not used.
Google, you clever bastards
The Art of zen-coding: Bringing Snippets to a New Level - Monday By Noon
The biggest calling point for zen-coding for me is its implementation of HTML selectors as snippet triggers. zen-coding includes an entirely new angle to writing markup, and it facilitates the feature by letting you write HTML based on CSS selectors
Exists for a wide range of editors, if you like snippets.
Where to find the best online interactive maps :: 10,000 Words
How to Design a Tumblelog Theme for WordPress | Digging into WordPress
Evaluation of Digital Repository Software at the National Library of Medicine
IP Routers : Speed, Security and Economy
CISQ - Consortium for IT Software Quality
Optimo - Theinhardt
Designing the ultimate wayfinding typeface | Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog
August 2009
Tech heroes of the past: Where are they now? | Royal Pingdom
Free Xubuntu 9.04 CDs - Quick Ship (World Wide)
July 2009
Copyright Consultations - Copyright and You
Digital technology has evolved dramatically, changing the way Canadians work, live and engage locally and globally. The emergence of the Internet has blurred the line between creators, users, producers, and distributors of copyrighted works.
Canadian copyright law needs to be updated to give Canadian creators and consumers the tools they need to engage with confidence in the digital marketplace. These updates will also help foster creativity, innovation and economic growth.
The Government believes that Canadians themselves must be able to contribute if future updates are to be a true reflection of Canada’s interests. These nation-wide consultations are intended to provide all Canadians with a chance to voice their opinions on what is needed to make the system work, and to ensure that all perspectives are taken into account on copyright modernization.
You can access additional information about copyright in the “Support Material” box located in the right hand side of this page.
Please help us by sharing your views, responding to other participants’ comments and rating other participants’ comments. To share your views, please click on “Reply to Topic”.
See who’s poking your Linux box | Tips4Linux.com
Read It: Search User Interfaces
Read the Book
To make this book available to as many readers as possible, the author, with permission of Cambridge University Press, has placed the full text online free of charge. See the terms of service on the right.
Search is an integral part of peoples' online lives; people turn to search engines for help with a wide range of needs and desires, from satisfying idle curiousity to finding life-saving health remedies, from learning about medieval art history to finding video game solutions and pop music lyrics. Web search engines are now the second most frequently used online computer application, after email. Not long ago, most software applications did not contain a search module. Today, search is fully integrated into operating systems and is viewed as an essential part of most information systems.
