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Submission + - Michael's Got a New Notebook...

Submitted by on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @03:58PM

An anonymous reader writes: Lionel Menchaca just posted on direct2dell.com: "I just heard that Michael's added a new notebook to his hardware collection. It's a Precision M90 mobile workstation with Ubuntu 7.04 and a list of open-source applications. He's also running an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 graphics card with 512MB RAM. I figured a few of you might want to know. "

Submission + - The Math of Text Readability

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @12:01PM

An anonymous reader writes: Wired magazine has an article that explains The Law of Optical Volumes, a formula for spacing the letters on a printed page that results in maximum readability. Wired's new logo (did anyone notice?) obeys the law. Unfortunately, Web fonts don't allow custom kerning pairs, so you can't work the same magic online as in print. Could this be why some people still prefer newspapers and magazines to the Web?

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by ColeyX on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @11:43AM

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