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Submission + - 3 Simple Steps to Font Perfection in Linux (mattparnell.com)

Submitted by

ilikenwf

on Monday September 17, 2007 @12:33PM

ilikenwf writes: "Matt Parnell's Blog has a nice tutorial that describes a mere 5-10 minute procedure that can drastically beautify the fonts in any Linux distro, on any window manager. Screenshot of the "After" included, because we all know how the default fonts usually look on a default 'nix install."

Submission + - Illiteracy is a disability?

Submitted by

mcgrew

on Thursday July 12, 2007 @03:15PM

mcgrew writes: "The St. Louis Post Dispatch is running a story about a man who is suing his former employer under the Americans with Disabilities Act for firing him for his illiteracy, saying that illiteracy is a disability.

I'm wondering how the guy knew about the ADA if he's illiterate? Maybe it's not that disabling in this day and age of audio-visual stimuli and educational materials? Perhaps one of you who don't know the difference between "loose" and "lose", or "there", "their", and "they're" can enlighten me as to just how disabling your condition is?

And could being a nerd be considered a disability? It certainly keeps women away more than a wheelchair would!"

Submission + - Joe Trippi on British politics and the web

Submitted by 00_NOP on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @07:54AM

00_NOP writes: Joe Trippi, past adviser to Howard Dean and, much more discretely, Tony Blair, has told British politicians that the web is going to blow their playhouse down. His comments seem more directed at the ruling Labour Party than the opposition Conservatives but both parties have had their difficulties — Labour's internet offering looks very web 1.0 and the Conservatives tried to be fancy with Webcameron — a personal site for their leader, but they actually have scaled that back in recent weeks. In the meantime, grassroots sites like Conservative Home have led intra-party insurgencies. Labour's web 2.0 grassroots efforts are less influential or troublesome.Web based politics is big in the States, but is it really going to take off in Britain?

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