I’ve started using John Gruber’s Markdown. While I’ve been a fan of the [Textile](http://www.textism.com/textile) system for a while, Markdown’s sytax feels cleaner to me, particularly when you’re looking at it in plain text. The main purpose of the various markup generators to me seems to be to ensure that your formatting distracts as little from ...
Fast Company | Gap’s New Look: The See-Through On May 12, Gap Inc. released a report that had jaws dropping in corporate boardrooms and activist corridors across the land. The 40-page “social-responsibility report” details, with unflinching honesty, the problems the $6.5 billion clothing retailer found in the 3,000 factories it contracted to produce clothing for ...
CliffsNotes has announced that they’ve got 180 literature guides online for free viewing. The snag is that viewing is the only thing that’s free. Downloading and printing the guides will cost $5.99 The CliffsNotes site is at http://www.cliffsnotes.com. Free Cliffnotes sounds like a fantastic resource. I wonder if now searching for literary titles and terms ...
Reset and Cancel Buttons (Alertbox Apr. 2000) Most Web forms would have improved usability if the Reset button was removed. Cancel buttons are also often of little value on the Web. It is one of the most basic heuristics for interaction design to support user control and freedom by allowing users an ’emergency exit’ out ...
“News.com – FASB’s all wrong on this one”:http://news.com.com/FASB%27s+all+wrong+on+this+one/2010-1014_3-5302648.html?part=rss&tag=5302648&subj=news.1014.5 It will mean the end of many broad-based options programs, curtailing the American innovation and creativity that sets us apart globally, and that fundamentally, America’s workers, businesses and overall economy will pay the cost. Though I have issues with the pragmatist’s argument that expensing options is too ...
Moving to Markdown
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