The best article about ADHD I’ve read to date is “Running from Ritalin” by Malcolm Gladwell, from the New Yorker, 15 Feb 1999 (p80).
>”Is the hectic pace of contemporary life really to blame for A.D.D.? Not so fast.”
Read it here.
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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]
Yes, YOU get to vote for your favorite blogs!
The Reader’s Choice portion of our 2007 Performancing Awards are now officially open for voting.
This is exactly what I’ve been worrying about for ages! I tend to wayy overcategorize (i have like 80 categories); and the difference between tags and categories was totally lost on me. Lorelle does a great job dissecting and differentiating between the two, and addresses some problems that go along with each system.
Also see Categories versus tags, what’s the difference and which one to use?
After 10 Years of Blogs, the Future’s Brighter Than Ever:
In the 10 years since the first site known as a “weblog” went online, the blog has matured from a geek niche to the internet’s dominant publishing paradigm.
Blogs have come a long way since Dec. 17, 1997, when Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet wanderings. In the decade hence, blogs have come to dominate the net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news sections of the august The New York Times.
“It’s the easiest, cheapest, fastest publishing tool ever invented,” said Jeff Jarvis, news blogger, media pundit and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. “The people have a voice they didn’t have before.”
WHAT?! There’s a sequel to The Giver and nobody told me?!!!
Well, it was written in 2004 (jesus, could you have waited any longer?)
anyways, spoiler warning be damned, here it is on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_%28novel%29
One moment you’re aflame and then the next,
As behind clouds the sun will sometimes slip,
The winds have changed, set fire to the nest;
A hand grenade becomes my clever quip.
Self sabotage towards ends I can’t imagine;
Perhaps some strange and tragic feat of ego.
What of this irony that snuffs out Passion?
What God of suicidal undertow?
Now no amount of dexterous cavitations
Can slay this summoned golem of the sheets—
It must be valiant reconciliation
Whose effort may this struggling arc complete.
Wherefore this agent of absurdity—
That most interested of parties,
Me?
[18 October 2006]
He dons his plate-mail, sword and mounts his steed;
Towards battle rides with grim-set eyes ablaze.
‘Tis time for learning to commence, yet not
Without the pain of blood lost to the grail.
How much pain in learning’s name imposed
(By saboteurs of self-protection’s kind)
Before those learned things fall short
And never can quite pacify the hell
Of life in educated misery.
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