Archive for September, 2003

Spook Words

William Knowles has a list of Spook Words that supposedly raise an eyebrow among the spies assigned to monitor our communications. A selection of terms you can sprinkle upon your correspondences to befuddle our monitors: Reno, Passwords, White House, Mayfly, MSNBC, COSMOS, Active X, Steve Case, Tools, Military Intelligence, Scully, Bubba, spook words, NAVWCWPNS, USACIL, [...]

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Optical illusions

Caution: This page contains some works of “anomalous motion illusion”, which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better leave this page immediately.

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BBC News Styleguide

The Styleguide (270 k PDF) gives practical suggestions on many aspects of journalism style — “A valuable resource for anyone who wants to write well.”

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All About Facets and Controlled Vocabularies

Boxes and Arrows: “Information architects are fascinated with faceted classification and its application to information architecture problems. However, facets remain difficult to understand and there are few options for learning about them.”

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Tripping the list fantastic

Eric A. Meyer’s Minimal Markup, Surprising Style describes style sheet formatting options for lists.

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Simple tutorials on CSS-based lists

Listutorial takes you through the basics of building CSS lists with “background images for bullets” and “simple rollovers” with a few variations along the way .

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An Introduction to PHP

An introduction to PHP. “You will learn how it came about, what it looks like, and why it is the best server-side technology. It also exposes the most important features of the language. ”

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Misconceptions About Usability

Useit.Com: Misconceptions About Usability. Most companies still don’t employ systematic usability methods to drive their design. The resulting widespread ignorance about usability has given rise to several misconceptions that warrant a response.

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Layout-o-matic

Layout-o-matic CCS creation: “We’ve already been through the pain of making our layouts cross-browser compatible, so you don’t have to! Select a layout type, width, and other options to the left, and then click Download or View.”

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