Author Archives: Pace Arko

sIFR and Web Typography

Well–the “Yes, we know the Web is not print but it should be,” crowd finally achieved their grail: A means of injecting uncommon fonts into in pages without sacrificing accessibility, losing semantics or confusing search engines. sIFR does it all. … Continue reading

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Security and Privacy Roundup

Over the past few months I’ve collected several articles about privacy and security: Automated Lockdown for XP: Still useful for Service Pack 2. VOA Releases Secure Tunneling Tool for Chinese Internet Users How to Run with Least Privilege in XP: … Continue reading

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Let's write better JavaScript!

Over the past few months I’ve been collecting many articles about JavaScript coding practices: JavaScript Optimization Strategies Unobtrusive JavaScript JavaScript and the DOM leaks like a sieve Ten good practices for writing JavaScript A Lint for JavaScript Optimizing JavaScript for … Continue reading

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PKD's doppleganger

I got some mail from a fellow named Don who has a site of his own that he thought I’d be interested in. It looks like it’s just starting out so, I don’t know where it will go but, so … Continue reading

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Tuva-pop

The popularity of Tuvan overtone-singing has been growing for nearly two decades. You’ve probably heard it in movies and adverts. I’ve always liked it. I’ve seen Huun Huur Tuu in concert and, I have a compilation of traditional and recent … Continue reading

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What divisions and spans are meant for

Argh! I have a too many things to link to! I’ve decided to declare a moratorium on opening my feed reader or adding more bookmarks until I’ve cleared out some of these old, unclassified links out. Perhaps I’ll turn some … Continue reading

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The Continuum Between the Living and Nonliving

In the course of a rambling chat session with my old, old friend, who is currently in Southeast Asia now, the subjects of some of my past entries here and some recent mail I sent to him came up, namely … Continue reading

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The Other Chuck D has a Posse!

You’ve probably seen them around. Those stickers that proclaim how Andre deeply represents. Well, that art meme, that graffiti, has mutated. Turns out that Darwin has deep representation too! I wonder what Darwin would think about current theories on cultural … Continue reading

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I was kinda hoping for Wells

Yes, I took one of those silly tests that tell you, after a bunch of misleading questions, what kind of thing or person you’re most like. In this case it was science fiction writers. What science fiction writer did this … Continue reading

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Final blog mergings and source-ordered markup

Source-ordered markup with content first is better for accessibility.
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