Why does K2 come with the post content justified by default?
It looks crappy.
Though I guess if you want a sidebar on the right, having justified text is nice since you get a clean, uniform break between text and sidebar (rather than the jagged space created by left-justification). But I’d say it’s not worth the resulting mutilation of post content (that is, when justification is used). So I might try switching the sidebar over to the left side if I can find some time to play with it.
Justified text
Justified text is set flush with the left and right margins. Page layout programs use a hyphenation dictionary to check for and apply hyphenation at each line’s end and then adjust word spacing throughout the line. But even with sophisticated page layout software, justified text blocks often suffer from poor spacing and excessive hyphenation and require manual refinement. This level of control is not even a remote possibility on Web pages. The most recent browser versions (and CSS) support justified text, but it is achieved by crude adjustments to word spacing. Also, Web browsers are unlikely to offer automatic hyphenation any time soon, another “must” for properly justified text. For the foreseeable future, the legibility of your Web documents will suffer if you set your text in justified format.
[From TYPOGRAPHY: Alignment @ Web Style Guide 2.0]
Jeffrey Friedl’s Blog » Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr]
And of course I find this 2 hours after dropping $15 for a PictureSync license :-\
Update: Well, after only giving it about 2 seconds worth of effort, the flickr plugin didn’t seem to show up where I expect it to (export menu, etc…) so I’ll just use picturesync for now. And it uploads to both flickr and facebook simultaneously… 
A heartwarming blog post found via Blabbermouth from artist and metalhead Timothy Bradstreet’s blog about his early years as a persecuted artist (we’ve all heard the story) complete with happy ending. Nice to hear this old tale with a metal twist!
IndieKarma. Micropayments that work?:
I got an email weeks ago urging me to look at a new micropayment system called IndieKarma. Pretty much every other micropayment scheme I’ve seen is too clunky to actually be useful, but I was pleasantly surprised with IndieKarma when I got around to checking it out. Here’s how it works.
If you’re a blogger or web site owner, you sign up, put a bit of JavaScript code on your site, and whenever a reader who’s signed into IndieKarma visits your site, you get a penny. Seamless and easy.
Ooooh, sounds awesome…! Maybe I’ll try it…
(Via kottke.org.)
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