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Looking for the The Google Font? It is Catull, but found out more about the Google logo by reading the Google Font Page

Fancy reading my Looking for the Spam collection ? It's even getting multilingual

Linux, Linux, Linux, Linux... want to try it ??? Knoppix is really nice. And easy. Download, burn, reboot. Et voila, Linux is running...

Too old for that Shot - 14/03/2002

Today lots of words I like:
M. wonders if web writers are just there because they are nomad in real life?
On Cultural Narcissism
To a large extent, we tend to surround ourselves with people who share our background and cultural values. If culture is understood to be the lens through which we observe and interpret the world, then being surrounded by people who use the same lens provides us with a sense of security and community. Perhaps this affection and admiration for our own culture can be described as a cultural form of narcissism.
web of trust and Googlebombing.
It's an issue of territory. I can say whatever I want on my weblog, but they cannot say whatever they want on my weblog.
One good point for the idea that comments in the blogspace should be cross-blogs and not onsite. Yes it is less intuitive. Yes it is elitist: you have to own a blog. But it also means no anonymousCoward. And also that only your words are on your site: no fear of being sued for something you neither wrote nor approved. (cf litigations in UK or in Sweden)
Oyonale: graphic experiments
There is no business like show business
Every night, Ted Koppel draws a million more viewers than David Letterman. But advertisers pay twice as much to be on Mr. Letterman's Late Show. That's because the average age of Mr. Koppel's Nightline audience is 50, and the average age of Mr. Letterman's audience is only 46.7. The difference is worth millions of dollars a year in pure profit.
Demographics isn't everything. It's the only thing. (via the Globe and Mail and MediaNews)
The Art Of Lossless Data Compression or tests performed in March 2002 to compare lossless compression by all known good enough programs developed for such purpose
Text Processing in Python, a book in progress and in public beta-test (via Swaine's World)
Originally published as jemisa.editthispage.com/discuss/msgReader$373
14 mars 2002