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Links for March 2004

A1: March for Standards! 31 Mar 2004
“We’re taking this to Washington. We’re taking this to Congress. We’re taking back the Semantic Web.”
Newsmap 30 Mar 2004
One of the coolest visualizations of news relevance I’ve ever seen; a must experience.
Gettin’ Along 30 Mar 2004
No protein here, no sir. Hate it. Never had it, never will. I’ll stick to one nutritional element, and one only. Sorry Atkins…
hypulp 25 Mar 2004
Paul Baron and Paulus Dreibholz launch “hypulp”, a look at the relationship between online and offline experiences
Quicksilver 25 Mar 2004
Making the Mac experience even better (via Merlin via Todd)
Quicksilver walkthrough 25 Mar 2004
Dan Dickinson, with a fast intro to Quicksilver
CMS and inline HTML 21 Mar 2004
Jay’s not convinced that these new publishing extensions (i.e. Markdown) are good for the long run. Already a few interesting ideas in the comments.
The Markdown Pitch 19 Mar 2004
I’m sold, and will be trying Markdown immediately.
Styling horizontal rules 19 Mar 2004
Ehtan and Dunstan figure out how to apply the CSS content property to style both ends of a horizontal rule
Web Access at 75% 19 Mar 2004
This number still seems awfully high
Apple’s Spoken Interface 18 Mar 2004
A look at the screen reader planned to be in the next version of the Mac OS.
The complexity principle 18 Mar 2004
Andrei reviews the origin of complexity in UI design
Going in the wrong direction? 18 Mar 2004
Jason Fried expounds on a concern that there’s too much focus on the tools, and not on the experience we create with them.
Disneyland Typespotting 10 Mar 2004
Corey’s nice collection of photographs of lettering and type at Disneyland, CA
Web Standards Solutions 7 Mar 2004
New book coming out from Dan Cederholm, falling along the lines of his popular SimpleQuiz topics.
CSS Sprites 5 Mar 2004
Shea dazzles us by explaining and demonstrating an image-map-like effect, done entirely with CSS.